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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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Inequality
Top 8 Ways the Massive Trump Tax Cut Made the Super-Rich Super-Richer and Failed Working Families

Top 8 Ways the Massive Trump Tax Cut Made the Super-Rich Super-Richer and Failed Working Families

By Frank Clemente | – In the two years since Congress passed the Republican tax law, the richest 1 percent have been the big winners. […]

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Trump's New Year Fireworks this time were Chaos in Iraq

Trump’s New Year Fireworks this time were Chaos in Iraq

Boston (Special to Informed Comment) – The last day of 2019 saw a huge contrast between scenes of New Year’s joy in Times Square in […]

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Iran
No Fair!  Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East

No Fair! Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East

Political Cartoon | – “No Fair! Iran put its Country right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East h/t Middle East Eye

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Libya
Will Turkey sending its Troops to Libya Prolong the Civil War?

Will Turkey sending its Troops to Libya Prolong the Civil War?

By Mustafa Fetouri | – Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government submitted a bill to the Turkish parliament seeking approval for its plans to send troops to […]

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Donald Trump
Trump, Troll-in-Chief, wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran

Trump, Troll-in-Chief, wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The madman in the White House has been sulking and raging for weeks about his impeachment proceedings, tweeting manically on […]

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Afghanistan
Top Five Countries that will Present Foreign Policy Challenges in 2020

Top Five Countries that will Present Foreign Policy Challenges in 2020

By Catesby Holmes | – Where will the world’s attention turn in 2020? The United States’ impeachment trial of Donald Trump and the United Kingdom’s […]

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Two 'divinely chosen' Great Leaders, Trump and Iran's Khamenei, in Heated Tweet War over Iraq

Two ‘divinely chosen’ Great Leaders, Trump and Iran’s Khamenei, in Heated Tweet War over Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I suppose it was foreseeable that at some point it would happen, but we’re finally here. President Donald J. Trump […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Top 3 Practical Solutions to our Most Pressing Environmental Crises

Top 3 Practical Solutions to our Most Pressing Environmental Crises

By Jennifer Weeks | – From climate change to omnipresent plastic waste, 2019 delivered a lot of discouraging environmental news. Several special reports this year […]

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