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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, Eyeing Reelection, Wants to Put us Back to Work too Soon:  Our Health vs. Whose Economy?

Trump, Eyeing Reelection, Wants to Put us Back to Work too Soon: Our Health vs. Whose Economy?

President Trump, who hoped to run for re-election on a booming economy, is being frustrated by a tiny virus. As usual he lashes out with […]

John Buell

Petroleum
Will the Pandemic Kill Big Oil and OPEC even before the Electric Car?

Will the Pandemic Kill Big Oil and OPEC even before the Electric Car?

By Hani Habeeb | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Giant oil tankers have changed into floating warehouses for oil following the sharp drop […]

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Culture
How the Plague Influenced Shakespeare

How the Plague Influenced Shakespeare

By Paul Yachnin | – Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic […]

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African-Americans
African-Americans, Victimized by U.S. Racism and Classism, are now preyed on by Coronavirus

African-Americans, Victimized by U.S. Racism and Classism, are now preyed on by Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The coronavirus appears to be striking African-Americans at far higher rates than white Americans, write Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
When you Work for Corporations you Don't Care about People: How Wisconsin GOP Forced in-person Voting in the Midst of a Pandemic to Suppress Urban Dem Vote

When you Work for Corporations you Don’t Care about People: How Wisconsin GOP Forced in-person Voting in the Midst of a Pandemic to Suppress Urban Dem Vote

By Jessica Corbett, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – As footage of Wisconsin’s crowded polling stations flooded the internet Tuesday, public health officials and civil […]

Common Dreams

Epidemics
Coronavirus and Medicare for All:  Our Crisis comes from Gov't Putting Profit over Public Health

Coronavirus and Medicare for All: Our Crisis comes from Gov’t Putting Profit over Public Health

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Big business dominates our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit. […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Epidemics
Palestinians are Helpless before Coronavirus, Hung out to Dry again by World Community

Palestinians are Helpless before Coronavirus, Hung out to Dry again by World Community

( Middle East Monitor ) – As Gaza tries to impede the spread of coronavirus, humanitarian aid, albeit necessary, is yet another reminder of how […]

Ramona Wadi

Authoritarianism
While Rome Burns:  With 2020 Election in Doubt Trump Gets what he's always Wanted

While Rome Burns: With 2020 Election in Doubt Trump Gets what he’s always Wanted

(Tomdispatch.com) – Last month, Donald Trump retweeted a doctored photo of himself playing the fiddle that was labeled “My next piece is called: nothing can […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
After Trump picked Feud with Shiite Nat'l Guard, Iraqi PM-designate says 1/2 US Troops will Leave Iraq this year, the Rest in '21

After Trump picked Feud with Shiite Nat’l Guard, Iraqi PM-designate says 1/2 US Troops will Leave Iraq this year, the Rest in ’21

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The current nominee to be the next prime minister of Iraq, Adnan al-Zurfi, says that He has asked the US […]

Juan Cole

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