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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/ Palestine
Israel: Would a Prime Minister Benny Gantz Launch a New War on Gaza?

Israel: Would a Prime Minister Benny Gantz Launch a New War on Gaza?

(Middle East Monitor) – Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
If Global Heating Exceeds 3.6° F., Antarctica’s Melt could Raise Seas 60 Feet over Time

If Global Heating Exceeds 3.6° F., Antarctica’s Melt could Raise Seas 60 Feet over Time

By Georgia Rose Grant and Timothy Naish | – We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological […]

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Espionage
Saudis Spied on American Soil to Penetrate Twitter to Bust Critics

Saudis Spied on American Soil to Penetrate Twitter to Bust Critics

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman was behind a Saudi intelligence operation wherein they bribed Twitter employees (now ex-employees) to […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Fitting: Trump will be Impeached for Chasing a Fantastical Conspiracy Theory about Ukraine

Fitting: Trump will be Impeached for Chasing a Fantastical Conspiracy Theory about Ukraine

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – When it comes to Ukraine, Trump has been manipulated as deftly as a mindless marionette. It’s going to cost him. […]

John Feffer

Authoritarianism
Donald Trump’s populist presidency is the real coup, not the impeachment inquiry

Donald Trump’s populist presidency is the real coup, not the impeachment inquiry

By David Edward Tabachnick| – U.S. President Donald Trump and his defenders have repeatedly referred to the ongoing impeachment inquiry as a “political coup” led […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
What hope for a New Generation of US Troops graduating into the Forever Wars?

What hope for a New Generation of US Troops graduating into the Forever Wars?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Patches, pins, medals, and badges are the visible signs of an exclusive military culture, a silent language by which soldiers and officers judge […]

Danny Sjursen

Donald Trump
Trump Expands US Military Mission in Syrian Oil Fields, as Russian calls him a "Hitler"

Trump Expands US Military Mission in Syrian Oil Fields, as Russian calls him a “Hitler”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lolita C. Baldor at the Associated Press reports that Trump has been prevailed upon by the US officer corps and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: what life is like under the continuing Israeli blockade

Gaza: what life is like under the continuing Israeli blockade

By Yaser Alashqar | – In his latest update to the UN Security Council in late October, Nicolay Mlandenov, the UN’s special coordinator for the […]

The Conversation

Assyrians
Unconstitutional: VP Pence Directed  USAID Help for Iraqis to tiny Christian Minority

Unconstitutional: VP Pence Directed USAID Help for Iraqis to tiny Christian Minority

by Yeganeh Torbati | (ProPublica) | – Officials at USAID warned that favoring Christian groups in Iraq could be unconstitutional and inflame religious tensions. When […]

ProPublica

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