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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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All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It was bad enough that Trump endangered the health of the graduating class at West Point for the purposes of […]

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Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East

Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East

By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – ( Globalvoices.org) – COVID-19 has exacerbated existing political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, a region already […]

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( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It was entirely fitting that Senator Tom Cotton would be the one to say the quiet part out loud […]

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Another Screw-Up: Iraq announces Gradual US Troop Withdrawal, in Aftermath of Trump's Strike on Local Generals

Another Screw-Up: Iraq announces Gradual US Troop Withdrawal, in Aftermath of Trump’s Strike on Local Generals

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the new Iraqi government of Mustafa al-Kadhimi concluded its first security review with its US partner, according to […]

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How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer if it shifts 30% of Jobs Online

How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer if it shifts 30% of Jobs Online

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitalisation because it forced many people to do without business […]

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Drones and Protesters: How High-Tech Surveillance Amplifies Police Bias and Overreach

Drones and Protesters: How High-Tech Surveillance Amplifies Police Bias and Overreach

By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson | – Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd […]

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On How those Army Bases were Named for Confederate Generals to Shore up Jim Crow Segregation

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By Troy E. Mosley | – (Citizens against Intolerance) – Some 160 years ago, a swath of Americans intent on defending a lifestyle of profiting […]

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In Major Blow to Far Right Netanyahu Gov't, Int'l Court of Human Rights Upholds right to Boycott Israel

In Major Blow to Far Right Netanyahu Gov’t, Int’l Court of Human Rights Upholds right to Boycott Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Far Right Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to steal 1/3 of the Palestinian West Bank is likely unstoppable, but […]

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