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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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Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War

Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War

Russia’s attack on the Ukraine certainly violated international law and Vladimir Putin should be charged as a war criminal for Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza

Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza

By Paul Aufiero, Omar Shakir, and Abier Almasri | – ( Human Rights Watch ) This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Israeli government’s […]

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Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it

Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it

By Morteza Abolhasani, The Open University; Gordon Liu, The Open University; and Zahra Golrokhi, The Open University | – Ads are ubiquitous in many people’s […]

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Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France’s parliamentary elections witnessed an upset, with centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République En Marche and its Ensemble coalition […]

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Modernism
New Identity:  Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey  (Review)

New Identity: Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey (Review)

Review of Filiz Çoban Oran, Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: Discursive Construction of New Turkey’s Identity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. Tuebingen (Special to Informed Comment) […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Employment
Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

( Otherwords.org) – CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just […]

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Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lutheran World Federation Council has called for an end to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories (Gaza […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Gov't Dedicates 2% of Country's Land Area to Onshore Wind

German Gov’t Dedicates 2% of Country’s Land Area to Onshore Wind

By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – More areas in Germany are going to be designated to onshore wind energy, with […]

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The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

By Omar Boutine | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – On May 15, 2022, Lebanese voters cast their ballots in the first parliamentary elections to be […]

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