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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israelis made the "Peace Process" a long Funeral for Palestinian Rights; Are They Finally Burying the Body?

Israelis made the “Peace Process” a long Funeral for Palestinian Rights; Are They Finally Burying the Body?

By Hossam Shaker | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the date for Israel’s planned annexation of Palestinian lands draws closer, Israeli circles […]

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Militarization
What does it Mean to ‘Defund’ and Re-imagine Policing?

What does it Mean to ‘Defund’ and Re-imagine Policing?

By Michelle Stewart | – On May 25, social media erupted with the image of a Black man once again whispering “I can’t breathe” while […]

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China
The Looming US-Chinese Missile Crisis

The Looming US-Chinese Missile Crisis

( Tomdispatch.com) – America’s pundits and politicians have largely concluded that a new Cold War with China — a period of intense hostility and competition […]

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African-Americans
Top 5 Reasons We must, despite Trump, change the name of Fort Bragg, since Braxton Bragg was a horrible Human Being

Top 5 Reasons We must, despite Trump, change the name of Fort Bragg, since Braxton Bragg was a horrible Human Being

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Responding to the Black Lives Matter protests that have sent people to the streets since the killing of George Floyd, […]

Juan Cole

Israel
New Crusades?  Conflict over Jerusalem is Heating up between Turkey and the budding Israeli-Saudi Bloc

New Crusades? Conflict over Jerusalem is Heating up between Turkey and the budding Israeli-Saudi Bloc

( Middle East Monitor) – Back in 2017, two Israeli advisors to the Jerusalem Municipality, David Koren and Ben Avrahami, shared their concerns about Turkey’s […]

Ahmed al-Burai

Donald Trump
As Key GOP Figures and Generals Defect, Emperor Trump’s Clothes are Disappearing

As Key GOP Figures and Generals Defect, Emperor Trump’s Clothes are Disappearing

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – A child exposing the nakedness of the emperor by speaking truth to power? Not these days. More than half of […]

John Feffer

Dissent
What – or who – is Trump's Bogeyman Antifa?

What – or who – is Trump’s Bogeyman Antifa?

By Stanislav Vysotsky | – The movement called “antifa” gets its name from a short form of “anti-fascist,” which is about the only thing its […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Chump: Before Trump fell for Antifa Conspiracy Theory, He Fell for Saudi Blockade of US Ally Qatar

Chump: Before Trump fell for Antifa Conspiracy Theory, He Fell for Saudi Blockade of US Ally Qatar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump produced widespread disgust on Tuesday by accusing a 75-year-old peace activist in Buffalo New York who was put in […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Could America's Covid and Race Crises Weaken the Union the way Chernobyl Broke up the USSR?

Could America’s Covid and Race Crises Weaken the Union the way Chernobyl Broke up the USSR?

Rochester, NY (Special to Informed Comment) – An unforeseen health disaster with rapidly propagating domestic and international consequences strikes a superpower already wallowing in heavy […]

Matthew Lenoe

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