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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

Juan Cole

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!)

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Renewables now Generate more of Britain's Electricity than Fossil Fuels

Renewables now Generate more of Britain’s Electricity than Fossil Fuels

By Will de Freitas, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – At the start of 2016, in an article noting some exciting changes in British […]

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Bin Laden's Curse:  Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL

Bin Laden’s Curse: Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The responsibility for the bombing in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people and wounded another 284, […]

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Double Threat: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024

Double Threat: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024

( Tomdispatch.com ) — Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking […]

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Israel in discussions with Congo to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, Recalling Nazi Madagascar Plan for Jews

Israel in discussions with Congo to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, Recalling Nazi Madagascar Plan for Jews

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli government is increasingly adopting the “voluntary” resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza as official policy, with a high-ranking […]

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How Long can Israel Defy the World?

How Long can Israel Defy the World?

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times […]

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Renewables cover 52% of Germany's Electricity Demand for First Time in 2023

Renewables cover 52% of Germany’s Electricity Demand for First Time in 2023

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Germany has generated more than half of the electricity it used this year with […]

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Israel’s highest Court protects its Power to curb Government Extremism

Israel’s highest Court protects its Power to curb Government Extremism

By Naomi Schalit, The Conversation | – In the midst of Israel’s fierce war against Hamas in Gaza, the country’s highest court on New Year’s […]

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Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Smotrich called Gaza a “Ghetto” that Should be Depopulated?

Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Smotrich called Gaza a “Ghetto” that Should be Depopulated?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The chief characteristic of the current Israeli government of PM Binyamin Netanyahu is the inclusion in it of elements that […]

Juan Cole

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Most Americans are Alarmed by Climate Emergency and Gaza Carnage, But Congress is Full of Denialists

Most Americans are Alarmed by Climate Emergency and Gaza Carnage, But Congress is Full of Denialists

Diane Roberts (Florida Phoenix ) – Humans are stupid, and it’s going to get us all killed. Hang on, you say, we humans have built […]

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