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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
How Israel is Usurping the Rich Archeological Heritage of the Palestinian West Bank

How Israel is Usurping the Rich Archeological Heritage of the Palestinian West Bank

By Nabil Al-Sahl | – Palestine is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of antiquities, competing with Egypt in the Arab […]

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Constitution
Amb. Sondland, who Reversed himself on Ukraine Quid Pro Quo, once Stood up for Khizr Khan against Trump

Amb. Sondland, who Reversed himself on Ukraine Quid Pro Quo, once Stood up for Khizr Khan against Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, potentially facing perjury charges owing to his earlier testimony that conflicted with […]

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Climate Crisis
11,000 scientists warn: Climate Crisis Could reach Point of No Return

11,000 scientists warn: Climate Crisis Could reach Point of No Return

By Thomas Newsome and William Ripple | – Exactly 40 years ago, a small group of scientists met at the world’s first climate conference in […]

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Hizbullah
The Iraqi and Lebanese Popular uprisings Caught between Iranian and Israeli Geopolitics

The Iraqi and Lebanese Popular uprisings Caught between Iranian and Israeli Geopolitics

By Oraib Al-Rantawi | @OraibAlRantawi It is not only Iran that is paying close attention to the uprisings of the Iraqi and Lebanese people; Israel […]

Middle East Monitor

National Security State
America: Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

America: Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

( Tomdispatch.com) – They called it Castle Black, an obvious homage to the famed frozen citadel from the HBO series Game of Thrones. In the […]

Nick Turse

Israel/ Palestine
Is Microsoft Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians?

Is Microsoft Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians?

(Middle East Monitor) – The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking […]

Ramzy Baroud

Human Rights
Saudi Arabia's  High Cost of 'Reform:' Arrests, Torture, Murder

Saudi Arabia’s High Cost of ‘Reform:’ Arrests, Torture, Murder

Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – Important social reforms enacted under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been accompanied by deepening repression and abusive […]

Human Rights Watch

Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Kurds charge Turkey with Ethnic Cleansing as US Military frets it will be "blind" without Kurdish Help

Syrian Kurds charge Turkey with Ethnic Cleansing as US Military frets it will be “blind” without Kurdish Help

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria today accused Turkish forces of conducting ethnic cleansing campaigns in the Kurdish region […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
Hezbollah: What Lebanon's Protests against Sectarian Elite Mean for the Party-Militia

Hezbollah: What Lebanon’s Protests against Sectarian Elite Mean for the Party-Militia

By Adham Saouli | – The national uprising that has engulfed Lebanon since mid-October is historic and revolutionary. Protests have continued across Lebanon, even after […]

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