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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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Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo?  Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords

Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo? Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shaping up to be as much of a disaster as secretary of state as […]

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Antisemitism
Bogus charges of Antisemitism and the Case of Rashida Tlaib

Bogus charges of Antisemitism and the Case of Rashida Tlaib

By David Rubenstein | – ( Southside Pride) – You have to wonder how many people actually listened to the allegedly antisemitic comments made by […]

David Rubenstein

Afghanistan
Leaving Afghanistan was a No-Brainer - the Rise of Illiberal Schmittian Regimes is now the big Danger to U.S.

Leaving Afghanistan was a No-Brainer – the Rise of Illiberal Schmittian Regimes is now the big Danger to U.S.

By Scott Corey | – (Special to Informed Comment) – On October of 2009, I published an essay on Informed Comment advocating that the US […]

Scott Corey

Joe Biden
A Yemen Catastrophe that America helped Make (Pearson Inst. Video with Juan Cole)

A Yemen Catastrophe that America helped Make (Pearson Inst. Video with Juan Cole)

Pearson Institute Panel on Catastrophe in Yemen from October 13, with Juan Cole among the panelists. Pearson Institute: Yemen in Neglect My (much more expert-on-Yemen […]

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Climate Crisis
"To Dirty it!" On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner's Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight

“To Dirty it!” On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner’s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, pop culture icon William Shatner, Star Trek‘s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained the enormity of seeing the earth […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Pain of Palestinians in Gaza

The Pain of Palestinians in Gaza

By Hamada Fara’na | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Even the Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, couldn’t bear the tragic scene of thousands of […]

Middle East Monitor

Banking
Make them Pay Up: Pandora Leaks show that the Super-Rich rob Public of $200 bn a year in lost Tax Revenues

Make them Pay Up: Pandora Leaks show that the Super-Rich rob Public of $200 bn a year in lost Tax Revenues

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The rich have always flaunted their wealth. It was rarely good enough to enjoy financial success, you had […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

By Siddharth Joshi, James Glynn and Shivika Mittal | – Rooftop solar panels are up to 79% cheaper than they were in 2010. These plummeting […]

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Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden says he wants to end the Yemen war, but eight months in, he has not made a dent […]

Juan Cole

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