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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!)

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Biden Still Determined to pass the Blockbuster Green Energy Package in BBB; Here's how He can Do it

Biden Still Determined to pass the Blockbuster Green Energy Package in BBB; Here’s how He can Do it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued last December that since Sen. Joe Manchin’s opposition had tanked the enormous Build Back Better act, President Biden […]

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Germany
Germany's First Battery-Powered Train Plies Regional Routes on Way to Green Rails

Germany’s First Battery-Powered Train Plies Regional Routes on Way to Green Rails

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country’s […]

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Israel/ Palestine
When Israel Kills an American, Washington calls for "Investigation;" Hundreds of Palestinians? Not so Much

When Israel Kills an American, Washington calls for “Investigation;” Hundreds of Palestinians? Not so Much

( Middle East Monitor ) – Last week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli army thugs in the […]

Asa Winstanley

Environment
Scientists issue Dire Warning: Chemical Pollution now Exceeds Safe Planetary Limit

Scientists issue Dire Warning: Chemical Pollution now Exceeds Safe Planetary Limit

By Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez | – The production and release of plastics, pesticides, industrial compounds, antibiotics and other pollutants is now happening so fast and on […]

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In War Crime, Saudi, UAE Airstrikes on Yemen kill over 100 in Migrant Detention Center, in War that has left 377,000 Dead

In War Crime, Saudi, UAE Airstrikes on Yemen kill over 100 in Migrant Detention Center, in War that has left 377,000 Dead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Saudis and the United Arab Emirates launched an air campaign of 45 air strikes on Yemen on Friday. According […]

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censorship
How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ plans to control all Palestinian content online

How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ plans to control all Palestinian content online

By Ramzy’s Baroud | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected […]

Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
Strengthening intergenerational work on Israel-Palestine Peace

Strengthening intergenerational work on Israel-Palestine Peace

By Andrew Gordon-Kirsch and Cherie Brown | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As trainers, coaches and activists on Israel-Palestine issues, we have found ourselves […]

Waging Nonviolence

Ireland
Ireland has the Wind and Seas to become an offshore Superpower

Ireland has the Wind and Seas to become an offshore Superpower

By Aldert Otter | – The Irish government signed up to the recent Glasgow Climate Pact and used the summit to announce a raft of […]

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Donald Trump
Biden's First Year vs. Trump's First Year:  Are you Friggin' Kidding me with this "Failed Presidency" Idiocy?

Biden’s First Year vs. Trump’s First Year: Are you Friggin’ Kidding me with this “Failed Presidency” Idiocy?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Republican outlets like Politico and Fox and the Wall Street Journal (the latter two echo chambers for reactionary Australian billionaire […]

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