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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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Will Trump Ride Pentagon Spending to Reelection? The President Bets on Arms Sales Big Time

(Tomdispatch.com) – Donald Trump likes to posture as a tough guy and part of that tough-guy persona involves bragging about how much he’s spent on […]

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Rattled by Trump's Erratic Violence, Senate to vote on Forbidding War on Iran without its Approval

Rattled by Trump’s Erratic Violence, Senate to vote on Forbidding War on Iran without its Approval

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Senate will take up a measure to forbid Trump to go to war with Iran without Congressional approval, writes […]

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On 41st Anniversary, has Trump's Belligerence Strengthened the Iranian Government?

On 41st Anniversary, has Trump’s Belligerence Strengthened the Iranian Government?

Oxford, UK (Special to Informed Comment) – On February 11, 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran marks the 41st anniversary of the victory of the […]

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How Iran's millennials are grappling with Trump's crippling sanctions

How Iran’s millennials are grappling with Trump’s crippling sanctions

By Manata Hashemi | – In early January, after tensions between Iran and the United States escalated to the brink of war, President Donald Trump […]

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No Trump 'Blue Collar Boom':  1/2 of Americans work Low-Wage Jobs and Manufacturing is in Decline

No Trump ‘Blue Collar Boom’: 1/2 of Americans work Low-Wage Jobs and Manufacturing is in Decline

(Otherwords.org) – Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its […]

Peter Certo

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Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows reality of Apartheid that the Kushner Plan would only Cement

Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows reality of Apartheid that the Kushner Plan would only Cement

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli government blockade on Palestinian agricultural exports through Jordan on Sunday illustrates the Apartheid character of Israeli rule over […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
As Fossil Fuels Melt Arctic, Pentagon Dreams of North Pole War

As Fossil Fuels Melt Arctic, Pentagon Dreams of North Pole War

(Tomdispatch.com) – In early March, an estimated 7,500 American combat troops will travel to Norway to join thousands of soldiers from other NATO countries in […]

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The Dark Side of the Trump Economy: Dems Must Stand up for Workers facing Gig Economy, Forced Overtime, Denial of Unionization

The Dark Side of the Trump Economy: Dems Must Stand up for Workers facing Gig Economy, Forced Overtime, Denial of Unionization

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Common wisdom among the pundit class is that President Trump may be able to coast to victory […]

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Climate Emergency: Australia's Wildfires showed we're One Step from System Collapse, with no Food, Fuel, Phones

Climate Emergency: Australia’s Wildfires showed we’re One Step from System Collapse, with no Food, Fuel, Phones

By Anthony Richardson | – This summer’s bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems […]

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