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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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How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance

How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance

By Julie Norman | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Amid the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Palestinians are among some of the most vulnerable […]

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In Pandemic, Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America's Long Lost Wars

In Pandemic, Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America’s Long Lost Wars

As President Trump has complained, the U.S. does not win wars anymore. In fact, since 1945, the only 4 wars it has won were over […]

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Oil’s Götterdämmerung: Why Covid-19 could Hasten the end of Fossil Fuels

Oil’s Götterdämmerung: Why Covid-19 could Hasten the end of Fossil Fuels

( Sustainability Times) – Last week the oil market took another plunge that saw the price of one barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fall […]

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Neo-Nazi "Reopeners" would Kill nearly as many Americans as died in All US Wars

Neo-Nazi “Reopeners” would Kill nearly as many Americans as died in All US Wars

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Roughly 1,264,000 US soldiers have died in all the wars this country has ever fought. A new simulation by the […]

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Donald Trump
Unionize!  Trump has coerced Workers at Covid-19 Hot Spot Meat Packing Plants into Front Lines

Unionize! Trump has coerced Workers at Covid-19 Hot Spot Meat Packing Plants into Front Lines

Southwest Harbor, Me. (Special to Informed Comment) – Should we be surprised that Smithfield[s pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota was a hotspot […]

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Russia: Could the Coronavirus Crisis Loosen Vladimir Putin's Grip on Power?

Russia: Could the Coronavirus Crisis Loosen Vladimir Putin’s Grip on Power?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – The COVID-19 pandemic has already opened the gates for a huge global economic crisis. Russia will not be spared, […]

Nikola Mikovic

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Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers: Hasn’t the Military-Industrial Complex Taken Enough of Our Money?

Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers: Hasn’t the Military-Industrial Complex Taken Enough of Our Money?

By Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – At this moment of unprecedented crisis, you might think that those not overcome by the economic […]

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Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov't, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov’t, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of Israelis gathered again at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the formation of a new national unity […]

Juan Cole

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A Complete Waste of Money’: Fossil Fuel Industry Takes At Least $50 Million in Covid Aid Despite Financial Struggles Long Before Outbreak

A Complete Waste of Money’: Fossil Fuel Industry Takes At Least $50 Million in Covid Aid Despite Financial Struggles Long Before Outbreak

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – “We need to be getting checks directly to workers, including in the fossil fuel industry—not hoping […]

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