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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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Algeria
2019: Americans Slept while Street Revolts Reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Algeria

2019: Americans Slept while Street Revolts Reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Algeria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In 2019, the Middle East was shaken by a new round of street revolts. As the year began, Abdelaziz Bouteflika […]

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Hamas
Israel: Turkey Coddles Hamas! Turkey: Israelis are Nazis! Bilateral Relations are Cratering

Israel: Turkey Coddles Hamas! Turkey: Israelis are Nazis! Bilateral Relations are Cratering

By Dr Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – Turkish-Israeli relations are witnessing increasing tension in recent days, culminating in Tel Aviv accusing Ankara of […]

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Christianity
Knights Templar: still loved by conspiracy theorists 900 years on

Knights Templar: still loved by conspiracy theorists 900 years on

By Patrick Masters | – On Christmas Day, 1119, the king of Jerusalem, Baldwin II persuaded a group of French knights led by Hugh de […]

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Education
How the Education Department Is Ripping Off Defrauded Students

How the Education Department Is Ripping Off Defrauded Students

Students who got defrauded by for-profit colleges were going to get loan forgiveness — until Betsy DeVos showed up.

Jill Richardson

Assyrians
A Subdued Christmas for Middle Eastern Christians amid New Wave of Popular Protests

A Subdued Christmas for Middle Eastern Christians amid New Wave of Popular Protests

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chaldean Christians in Iraq have been asked by their Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, to hold subdued private Christmas ceremonies this […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Breathing Room: Trump v. Dingell

Breathing Room: Trump v. Dingell

By Bonnie Honig | – ( Politics/Letters ) – Watching Trump in Michigan this week talking about Debbie and John Dingell, I was struck by […]

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India
As India’s Hindu Supremacist Gov’t Moves to deprive 1.5 mn Assamese Muslims of Citizenship, a Solidarity Network Emerges

As India’s Hindu Supremacist Gov’t Moves to deprive 1.5 mn Assamese Muslims of Citizenship, a Solidarity Network Emerges

By Anuradha Sen Mookerjee | – The state of Assam in India is currently burning with violent protests against a new citizenship law passed by […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Actually we are implicated in the World's 7th Mass Extinction of Life on Earth

Actually we are implicated in the World’s 7th Mass Extinction of Life on Earth

By Julie Celestial | – (The Watchers) – The biodiversity crisis we experience today– defined by the rapid loss of species and rapid degradation of […]

The Watchers

Israel/ Palestine
Born Without Civil Rights:  Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank

Born Without Civil Rights: Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank

(Human Rights Watch The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in the West Bank of their basic civil rights, including the rights to free […]

Human Rights Watch

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