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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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Al-Qaeda as an Anti-Muslim Movement Still Dangerous to US Al-Qaeda, at least as a vague franchise, still exists, and remains a major threat to the […]

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Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Don’t forget imprisoned scholar Haleh Esfandiari, in Iran. The link is to an article just out in the Chronicle of Higher Education. See […]

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Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

The Beginning of the End of Anglo-American Iraq Incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before […]

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8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 US GIs Killed 16 Shiite Kurds Massacred Suhail: Iraq has 3 million widows *8 US troops were announced killed in Iraq on Saturday. British […]

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Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright: Boycott Threat Puts Pressure on Iran Robin Wright at the Washington Post has a piece online today on the growing pressure among US academics […]

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Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al-Hakim in US for Cancer Treatment Sistani Aide: US not Serious on Terror Militia Rule in Basra Robin Wright reports that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the […]

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Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh in Prison I copied here last Saturday our MESA letter of protest about the Iranian government’s imprisonment of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari [also spelled […]

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Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many thanks to readers willing to take the blogads survey. I’m told it isn’t time-consuming. Although I would be blogging anyway, I […]

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Iraq
Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage is “As Bad as Ever”: Shahristani 60 Dead in violence In an interview with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent, Iraq’s Oil Minister, Hussein […]

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