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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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Good Climate News: US will increase Solar Power by nearly 50% in 2022, and add 29 Gigawatts of Wind

Good Climate News: US will increase Solar Power by nearly 50% in 2022, and add 29 Gigawatts of Wind

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Both at COP26 and in the U.S. Congress, a lot of attention is rightly focused on what governments are doing […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions

As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions

By Isabel Sutton | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Top 5 Loopholes left by COP26 for Big Carbon that need to be Closed

Top 5 Loopholes left by COP26 for Big Carbon that need to be Closed

By Jeremy Moss | – For the Glasgow climate summit to be judged a success, a key outcome had to be that parties agree the […]

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Climate Crisis
After Unprecedented Wildfires, Turkey finally ratifies the Paris Climate Accord, sets 2053 to Eliminate Carbon Emissions

After Unprecedented Wildfires, Turkey finally ratifies the Paris Climate Accord, sets 2053 to Eliminate Carbon Emissions

Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – More than five years after signing it, Turkey has become the final G20 member state to ratify the […]

Global Voices

Donald Trump
In Irrational COVID Policy, is there any Difference between Republicans and  Iran's Ayatollahs?

In Irrational COVID Policy, is there any Difference between Republicans and Iran’s Ayatollahs?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – David Axe at the Daily Beast reports on what he says is very bad news for the US red states […]

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Islam
Juan Cole's "Muhammad" is one of Best Five Books on the Prophet Muhammad (Muqtedar Khan Youtube)

Juan Cole’s “Muhammad” is one of Best Five Books on the Prophet Muhammad (Muqtedar Khan Youtube)

Muqtedar Khan is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. His doctoral dissertation at Georgetown University was on Islamic political […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
In Turkey, 30 people face investigation over social media posts that ‘insulted the president’

In Turkey, 30 people face investigation over social media posts that ‘insulted the president’

By Arzu Geybullayeva ” – ( Globalvoices.org) – Turkish social media users have taken their concerns about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s health to Twitter. But […]

Global Voices

Environment
Lead, Uranium, Fertilizer: Laws Letting Corporations Pollute our Water are written by Lobbyists

Lead, Uranium, Fertilizer: Laws Letting Corporations Pollute our Water are written by Lobbyists

( Tomdispatch.com) – Think of it this way: what we don’t know will hurt us. And water — yes, water — is an example of […]

Rajan Menon

China
After 30 Secret Meetings, US and China announce Joint initiative to Combat Global Heating in Diplomatic Thaw

After 30 Secret Meetings, US and China announce Joint initiative to Combat Global Heating in Diplomatic Thaw

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Owen Churchill at the South China Morning Post reports that the United States and China at the UN Climate Conference […]

Juan Cole

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