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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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Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants […]

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Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.

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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran's Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia's Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran’s Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia’s Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The first month of 2020 has been full of lessons—if we are willing to listen. With over […]

John Buell

Australia
Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia's Ecology Ever be the Same?

Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia’s Ecology Ever be the Same?

By Darren Evans | – The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of […]

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prison reform
Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World

Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World

Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua Dratel | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In January 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba opened its gates […]

Tomdispatch

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Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump's Opposition, Replacing Coal

Wind Power Surging Globally and In U.S. despite Trump’s Opposition, Replacing Coal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and humanity needs to ban it yesterday if we are to keep the earth […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani

The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani

By Bamo Nouri | – When thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Iraq’s streets on January 10, they were expressing anger at the explosion of […]

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Israel:  Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

Israel: Free Palestinian rights Activist Jonathan Pollak

( Middle East Monitor) – Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity […]

Asa Winstanley

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