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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 Kneecapped World Health Organization amid Pandemic; Jimmy Carter used it in bid to Wipe out Guinea Worm

Trump Kneecapped World Health Organization amid Pandemic; Jimmy Carter used it in bid to Wipe out Guinea Worm

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In another petty, destructive and self-serving tirade, Trump announced Tuesday that he is halting US funding for the World Health […]

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Donald Trump
With Rich Cushioned and Millions losing Jobs, let's Dump "Heroic Job Creators" vs. "Moochers"  Myth

With Rich Cushioned and Millions losing Jobs, let’s Dump “Heroic Job Creators” vs. “Moochers” Myth

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Republican Presidents Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Donald Trump and the 2020 GOP […]

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Pentagon
Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson's Critique of American Imperialism

Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson’s Critique of American Imperialism

( Responsible Statecraft) – It has been nearly ten years since Chalmers Johnson died, and twice that long since the publication of “Blowback: The Costs […]

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Epidemics
Real Security: Wasted Pentagon Trillions that We Could have Spent on Health Care and Pandemic Preparedness

Real Security: Wasted Pentagon Trillions that We Could have Spent on Health Care and Pandemic Preparedness

It is not like we’ve won any wars since 1945, anyway

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Authoritarianism
Ayatollah Trump Declares "Total Authority:" Top 5 Ways he is Becoming American Version of Iran's Supreme Leader

Ayatollah Trump Declares “Total Authority:” Top 5 Ways he is Becoming American Version of Iran’s Supreme Leader

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At the embarrassing public meltdown that passed for his news conference on Monday, Trump addressed the question of opening back […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Youth under Israeli Occupation were already Isolated —  Now Social Media is their only Connection to the World

Palestinian Youth under Israeli Occupation were already Isolated — Now Social Media is their only Connection to the World

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Social media plays a vital role in transforming people’s lives. Being on social networks […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties

How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties

By Khalid Ibrahim, Gulf Center for Human Rights | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul is one of many human rights […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
Killing off the Animals:  By Burning Fossil Fuels, we'll destroy 50% of their Habitat this Century

Killing off the Animals: By Burning Fossil Fuels, we’ll destroy 50% of their Habitat this Century

By Christopher Trisos and Alex Pigot | – The impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems are already evident. Poleward shifts in the geographic […]

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Donald Trump
If Trump fires Dr. Fauci and installs a Barr-like Toady, what ever will become of us?

If Trump fires Dr. Fauci and installs a Barr-like Toady, what ever will become of us?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Jake Tapper repeatedly pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday to say whether earlier social distancing measures, say in February […]

Juan Cole

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