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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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U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine

U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine

By Jeff Warner and Yossi Khen | – ( The Markaz Review ) – Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that Ukraine has no right of […]

Jeff Warner

Climate Crisis
American Exceptionalism is the Wrong Lens for our Massive Carbon Dioxide Emissions

American Exceptionalism is the Wrong Lens for our Massive Carbon Dioxide Emissions

By Aviva Chomsky | – Three years after the end of World War II, diplomat George Kennan outlined the challenges the country faced this way: […]

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Bush
US Deplores Russia's 'Shock and Awe' against Ukraine, but Found its own Against Iraq "Spectacular"

US Deplores Russia’s ‘Shock and Awe’ against Ukraine, but Found its own Against Iraq “Spectacular”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The scenes of the horrible destruction that Russia is inflicting on Ukraine’s civilian cities, from Kharkiv to Mariupol, and the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels in the West?

Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels in the West?

By Jack Marley | – Four weeks have passed since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. To impede the onslaught of Vladimir Putin’s war machine, countries in […]

The Conversation

Russia
Ending the War in Ukraine:  No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin

Ending the War in Ukraine: No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Vladimir Putin has a very clear strategy for ending his war in Ukraine. He intends to wipe the […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
International Law and the Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Movement

International Law and the Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Movement

By Rania Muhareb | – ( Al-Shabaka) – The Unity Intifada of May 2021 emphasized the centrality of Palestinian popular mobilization in the struggle against […]

Al-Shabaka

racism
Ukraine: how boycotting everything Russian – and blaming Russian society rather than Putin – is xenophobic

Ukraine: how boycotting everything Russian – and blaming Russian society rather than Putin – is xenophobic

By Rachel Pistol, King’s College London | – The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked global outrage and a desire to show support for Ukrainian […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Industrialized Nations must stop Producing Fossil Fuels by 2034 to keep Climate from Going Tropical and Chaotic

Industrialized Nations must stop Producing Fossil Fuels by 2034 to keep Climate from Going Tropical and Chaotic

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scientists Dan Calverley and Kevin Anderson at Manchester University have brought out a new report looking hard at what would […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
The billion dollar deal that made Google and Amazon partners in the Israeli occupation of Palestine

The billion dollar deal that made Google and Amazon partners in the Israeli occupation of Palestine

( Middle East Monitor ) – “We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees […]

Ramzy Baroud

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