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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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Vanilla ISIL: Social Media is forced to Treat Trump and Trumpists Like Terrorists

Vanilla ISIL: Social Media is forced to Treat Trump and Trumpists Like Terrorists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Not everyone who mobbed the Capitol on 1/6 was a terrorist, but there were many terrorists among them. Some people […]

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Donald Trump
First Impeach, then strip Trump of Benefits from the Former Presidents Act

First Impeach, then strip Trump of Benefits from the Former Presidents Act

Austin, Tx. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the aftermath of Trump’s Rally for Fascism that led to the storming of the Capitol, there is […]

Steve Scholl

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Far-right activists on social media telegraphed violence weeks in advance of the attack on the US Capitol

Far-right activists on social media telegraphed violence weeks in advance of the attack on the US Capitol

By Alex Newhouse | – The attack on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 was shocking, but no one following right-wing activity on social […]

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Democratic Party
50+ Foreign Policy and National Security Experts Call on Biden to Return to Iran Deal

50+ Foreign Policy and National Security Experts Call on Biden to Return to Iran Deal

National Iranian American Council. Note to Informed Comment readers: Juan Cole is among the signatories below. To: President Elect Biden and the Biden administration As […]

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Climate Crisis
Dear Rats deserting Trump's Sinking Ship:  All those Times you didn't Resign or Even criticize his Monstrous Deeds

Dear Rats deserting Trump’s Sinking Ship: All those Times you didn’t Resign or Even criticize his Monstrous Deeds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The rats are deserting Trump’s sinking ship, after he fomented the Great QAnon Capitol Insurrection, with two cabinet secretaries and […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How does the 25th Amendment work, and can it be used to remove Trump from office after US Capitol attack?

How does the 25th Amendment work, and can it be used to remove Trump from office after US Capitol attack?

By Stephanie Newbold | – A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
"One State for Israel and Palestine is a Game Changer": A conversation with Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on the one democratic state campaign

“One State for Israel and Palestine is a Game Changer”: A conversation with Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on the one democratic state campaign

By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | – ( Middle East Monitor) – As the US ruling elites have fully succumbed to Israel’s political discourse […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Will it Ever Be Over?  The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

Will it Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

( Tomdispatch.com) – “This is a different kind of war, which we will wage aggressively and methodically to disrupt and destroy terrorist activity,” President George […]

Nick Turse

Donald Trump
Terrorism and invading the Legislature, in the  Middle East and America

Terrorism and invading the Legislature, in the Middle East and America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump whipped up far right wing conspiracy theorists and white nationalists on Wednesday, telling them the election had been stolen […]

Juan Cole

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