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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory
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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

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Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.

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Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Wertheim: Wilders’ Lethal Words

Wertheim: Wilders’ Lethal Words

Anne-Ruth Wertheim writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Words can incite violence. These are the kind of words Geert Wilders used in the Dutch […]

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Obama Reversal on Torture Photos: Is He Afraid they would Destabilize Iraq?

Obama Reversal on Torture Photos: Is He Afraid they would Destabilize Iraq?

President Obama has reversed himself on his earlier determination not to oppose a ruling by a Federal judge that remaining photos of the torture and […]

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Pakistani Public Sees Taliban as Dangerous; New Front Opened at Peochar

Pakistani Public Sees Taliban as Dangerous; New Front Opened at Peochar

Pakistani troops say that they have cleared Buner of Taliban guerrillas: “‘Normalcy is returning to Buner. People have started harvesting their crops and shops are […]

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Gas Attack on School girls in Afghanistan

Gas Attack on School girls in Afghanistan

A suspected gas attack on a girl’s school sent 84 girls to hospital in Kapisa Province north of Kabul. There are suspicions that this was […]

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Cole in Salon: The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney

Cole in Salon: The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney

My column for Salon.com, “The hidden hand of Dick Cheney” is now out. Excerpt: ‘ don’t dismiss Dick Cheney as a fading punch line, or […]

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Al-Libi Case Eloquent Testimony against Torture

Al-Libi Case Eloquent Testimony against Torture

The best refutation of Dick Cheney’s insistence that torture was necessary and useful in dealing with threats from al-Qaeda just died in a Libyan prison. […]

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McKiernan Steps Down in Afghanistan;Pakistan Offensive continues in Swat

McKiernan Steps Down in Afghanistan;Pakistan Offensive continues in Swat

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced on Monday that he had fired Gen. David McKiernan. Time reports that Gates was impatient with McKiernan’s failure to […]

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Wanda Sykes makes Short Work of Rush Limbaugh

Wanda Sykes makes Short Work of Rush Limbaugh

Wanda Sykes Comedy @ White House Correspondents Dinner – 05/09/09, Part I: and Part II, which includes the destruction of Rush Limbaugh and a wicked […]

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The Problem is Statelessness

The Problem is Statelessness

King Abdullah II of Jordan revealed to the Times of London that the Obama administration may attempt a comprehensive peace treaty between Israel and the […]

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