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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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We have a Decade to Slash Carbon Emissions:  After That it Gets Harder and much Hotter

We have a Decade to Slash Carbon Emissions: After That it Gets Harder and much Hotter

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the climate talks to come, we need more youth, indigenous, and civil society groups […]

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Iraq
Chris Hedges: From Jerusalem to Gaza and Iraq, the Sacred Bonds of Kindness that Make us Human (Video)

Chris Hedges: From Jerusalem to Gaza and Iraq, the Sacred Bonds of Kindness that Make us Human (Video)

Emir-Stein Center | Chris Hedges | – “Evil, even in the darkest moments, is impotent before the miracle of human kindness. This miracle defies prejudices […]

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Donald Trump
Khamenei: Trump Killed Soleimani to help ISIL Terrorists, but is Impotent; Trump: "Be careful with your Words"

Khamenei: Trump Killed Soleimani to help ISIL Terrorists, but is Impotent; Trump: “Be careful with your Words”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump on Friday warned Iran’s clerical Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be “careful with his words” after the ayatollah gave […]

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Palestine isn't only Under Israeli Military Occupation-- Its History and Culture are Colonized, Too

Palestine isn’t only Under Israeli Military Occupation– Its History and Culture are Colonized, Too

By Asaad Abdel Rahman | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Although the Palestinian-Israeli conflict takes place within a relatively small geographic region, it receives […]

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Iran
What has Driven US - Iranian Enmity for over 40 Years?

What has Driven US – Iranian Enmity for over 40 Years?

By Jeffrey Fields | – Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow […]

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Houthi
Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – Yemen’s armed conflict and humanitarian crisis is resulting in unspeakable suffering for millions of civilians despite increasing […]

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Donald Trump
The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and  Impeached for Bullying Ukraine

The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and Impeached for Bullying Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was for my sins watching CNN the other evening and as I remember I saw Chris Cuomo on a […]

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China
Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The 2020 Iowa Caucuses will take place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first official nominating contest […]

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Climate Crisis
Hot Blob: Worst Ocean Heatwave on Record just Killed 1 Million Seabirds in N. Pacific

Hot Blob: Worst Ocean Heatwave on Record just Killed 1 Million Seabirds in N. Pacific

By Tim Birkhead | – The common guillemot (known as the common murre in North America) breeds in both the Pacific and the Atlantic and […]

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