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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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Libya:  Is the Russia-Turkey Conflict Heightening over Oil-Rich Sirte?

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Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – The Libya’s civil war intensifies as Russia and Turkey are expected to negotiate the fate of strategically important coastal […]

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How Trump brought US Racist Policing and Racist Foreign Policy Together on D.C. Streets

How Trump brought US Racist Policing and Racist Foreign Policy Together on D.C. Streets

(Code Pink) – On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. […]

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Eyeing Iran as Weapons Market, Russia shoots down as “Ridiculous” Trump’s demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran

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The Other Looting:  We've Just witnessed a Nationwide Police Riot, Fueled by Trump's talk of "Terrorists"

The Other Looting: We’ve Just witnessed a Nationwide Police Riot, Fueled by Trump’s talk of “Terrorists”

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The 2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle in America

The 2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle in America

By Matthew Countryman | – The river was the metaphor that best captured “the long, continuous movement” of the black freedom struggle for theologian, historian […]

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‘I am here with my Palestinian flag to show that Black Lives Matter’

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By Lauren Lewis | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “[Palestinians] go through the same struggle, so I understand the pain, and there’s nothing […]

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What we can Learn from the Qur’an about valuing People of all Races and Colors

What we can Learn from the Qur’an about valuing People of all Races and Colors

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Qur’an (sometimes spelled Koran), is one of great books in world history. Only a handful of works have been […]

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We are George Floyd: How his Killing and COVID 19 made for an American Spring

We are George Floyd: How his Killing and COVID 19 made for an American Spring

Hamilton, Ont. (Special to Informed Comment) – George Floyd has ignited an “Arab Spring” in the United States. Like the now-fallen dictators of Egypt and […]

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Trump wants to send Federal Troops to the States to Stop Dissent, but SCOTUS lets the South Suppress the Black Vote

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Southwest Harbor, Me. (Special to Informed Comment) – The pandemic has exposed more than just the inequities and vulnerabilities of our political economy. It has […]

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