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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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Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of Israel, are next Victims of Kushner Apartheid

Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of Israel, are next Victims of Kushner Apartheid

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – (Middle East Monitor)- Israelis of all political persuasions welcomed the Trump “peace plan”, but the Palestinian citizens […]

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Donald Trump
“We’ve Been Attacked!” Women and Trauma in the Trump-Putin Era

“We’ve Been Attacked!” Women and Trauma in the Trump-Putin Era

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdisptach.com) – Last month, as hundreds of thousands of people showed up for the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., […]

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Africa
The 13 Countries on Trump's (mostly) Muslim Ban are little Security Challenge to US, but White Nationalism Is

The 13 Countries on Trump’s (mostly) Muslim Ban are little Security Challenge to US, but White Nationalism Is

By Charles Kurzman | – Over the past two decades, how many people have been killed in the U.S. by extremists from the six countries […]

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Nothing could have been a better gift to Iran in the region than the Kushner Apartheid for Palestinians

Nothing could have been a better gift to Iran in the region than the Kushner Apartheid for Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the “august leader” of the country, lambasted the Kushner Plan for the Palestinians, and took the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli security forces arrest 1 Palestinian journalist, and injure another covering protests

Israeli security forces arrest 1 Palestinian journalist, and injure another covering protests

(Beirut) — Israeli authorities should reveal the reason for journalist Mohammad Malhem’s arrest or release him immediately, and should investigate the injuries sustained by journalist […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Bill of Rights
This is how ancient Rome's republic died – a classicist sees troubling parallels at Trump's impeachment trial

This is how ancient Rome’s republic died – a classicist sees troubling parallels at Trump’s impeachment trial

By Timothy Joseph | – The U.S. Senate has made its judgment in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, acquitting the president. Fifty two […]

The Conversation

Eastern Europe
Britain got its Brexit, but will it also Get an Economic Depression and Lose Scotland and N. Ireland?

Britain got its Brexit, but will it also Get an Economic Depression and Lose Scotland and N. Ireland?

By John Feffer | – Edinburgh, Scotland (Foreign Policy in Focus) – If I were the European Union, I’d be wiping my hands, sighing in […]

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Congress
Sen. Mitt Romney's Historic Speech Explaining Why he Voted to Impeach and Remove Trump

Sen. Mitt Romney’s Historic Speech Explaining Why he Voted to Impeach and Remove Trump

Sen. Mitt Romney’s remarks on the impeachment vote on Wednesday are below. He voted to convict Trump and remove him from office, and was the […]

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Cramer: "We're in the Death Knell Phase" of Big Oil, as 44% of Norway New Autos are Electric

Cramer: “We’re in the Death Knell Phase” of Big Oil, as 44% of Norway New Autos are Electric

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNBC stock picker Jim Cramer startled his conservative fan base this week by refusing to push ExxonMobil and other petroleum […]

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