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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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Trump's 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts' is Classic Fascism, Classic Racism

Trump’s ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’ is Classic Fascism, Classic Racism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – “Between 18 and 20 December 1922 Turin Fascism unleashed a 3 day terror campaign on a recalcitrant anti-Fascist labour movement.” […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Normalising Far-Right Israeli violence against Palestinians during the pandemic

Normalising Far-Right Israeli violence against Palestinians during the pandemic

(Middle East Monitor) – In April, the Israeli Civil Administration stated that it would halt the demolition and destruction of Palestinian dwellings during the coronavirus […]

Ramona Wadi

African-Americans
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public's view of protest

Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest

Danielle K. Kilgo | – A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Sadistic or Crazy?  Trump is cutting Food Stamps in the Midst of Pandemic Depression

Sadistic or Crazy? Trump is cutting Food Stamps in the Midst of Pandemic Depression

( Otherwords.org ) – Tens of millions of us are out of work. Why on earth is Trump trying to cut food aid? In some […]

Jill Richardson

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Israel's Netanyahu says the Quiet Part Out Loud:  Palestinians to be "subjects," not Citizens in Apartheid Annexation

Israel’s Netanyahu says the Quiet Part Out Loud: Palestinians to be “subjects,” not Citizens in Apartheid Annexation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with corrupt casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s free newspaper, Israel ha-Yom, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The Other Pandemic:  We haven't Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis

The Other Pandemic: We haven’t Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – We are living with two life-threatening crises: Covid-19 and the climate crisis. They pose a common stark fate […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism
How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – (Globalvoices.org) – In response to COVID-19, governments around the world have declared states of emergency, allowing them to take […]

Global Voices

Banking
The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

(Tomdispatch.com) – Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts […]

Nomi Prins

African-Americans
Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My social media feeds have been full of comparisons between the treatment by police of Reopener mobs, some of whom […]

Juan Cole

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