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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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Fridays for Future plans Climate Strike in over 350 German cities ahead of National Election

Fridays for Future plans Climate Strike in over 350 German cities ahead of National Election

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 […]

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Child Labor is Growing: Which Side Are Democracies On?

Child Labor is Growing: Which Side Are Democracies On?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – This is the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. What can democracies do to make this a […]

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Transparency can Help Cut Carbon Emissions:  Don't let Polluting Corporations Hide

Transparency can Help Cut Carbon Emissions: Don’t let Polluting Corporations Hide

By Richard Holden | – World leaders and about 30,000 others from assorted interest groups will converge on Glasgow in November for the United Nations’ […]

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Green Energy initiatives in Dem Infrastructure Bill infinitely Cheaper than a gradualist phase-out of Fossil Fuels

Green Energy initiatives in Dem Infrastructure Bill infinitely Cheaper than a gradualist phase-out of Fossil Fuels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The green energy proposals in the $3.5 trillion Democratic Party infrastructure bill now being heatedly debated have been attacked from […]

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How Gerrymandering Threatens Democracy

How Gerrymandering Threatens Democracy

By Arnold J. Oliver | – Tiffin, Oh. (Special to Informed Comment) – Right now, Ohio, Michigan and other states are in the process of […]

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Militarization
A Parable of (All-American) Violence:  Accountability and the War of Terror

A Parable of (All-American) Violence: Accountability and the War of Terror

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As a religious studies professor, I know a parable when I see one. Consider the 20th anniversary […]

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A short History of Climate Change and Civilization that does not End Well (XKCD Webcomic)

A short History of Climate Change and Civilization that does not End Well (XKCD Webcomic)

Randall Munroe, XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Via Randall Munroe, XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. This work […]

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Did a Cosmic Airburst inspire the Myth of Sodom and inadvertently Spark millennia of Homophobia?

Did a Cosmic Airburst inspire the Myth of Sodom and inadvertently Spark millennia of Homophobia?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a new paper in Nature archeologists Ted E. Bunch and Malcolm A. LeCompte et al. present their findings that […]

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U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy

U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy

( Code Pink ) – President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a […]

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