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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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Lebanon
How Lebanon's Uprising Defies the Sectarian Narrative: Not Sunni, Shiite, Christian

How Lebanon’s Uprising Defies the Sectarian Narrative: Not Sunni, Shiite, Christian

By Mira Assaf Kafantaris | – Religion has shaped Lebanon since it gained independence from France in 1943. In this multicultural country of Muslims, Christians […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities: HRW

Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities: HRW

Disband All Irregular Paramilitary Forces, Cooperate With Independent Investigations

Human Rights Watch

Congress
Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

By Anthony Torres (1st Published at Waging Nonviolence) – The last few weeks have been a turning point for impeachment. Suddenly, dozens of members of […]

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Arab World
Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If we think about mass politics in the Middle East during the past 8 years as anti-corruption drives, it is […]

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Climate Crisis
Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

By Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel | – Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp […]

Clean Energy Wire

Donald Trump
Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

(Tomdispatch.com) – Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

By Natasha Lindstaedt | – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State (IS), is dead. After US special forces raided his safe house in […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The  Carbon Dioxide Horror Show: Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study

The Carbon Dioxide Horror Show: Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scott A. Kulp and Benjamin H. Strauss have published an extremely alarming set of conclusions in Nature in which they […]

Juan Cole

Lebanon
Demanding Democracy: Lebanon's PM Hariri Resigns in Face of Massive Protests, Gridlocked Corrupt Elite

Demanding Democracy: Lebanon’s PM Hariri Resigns in Face of Massive Protests, Gridlocked Corrupt Elite

Montreal (Informed Comment) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced his resignation1 in a letter to President Michel Aoun. In a public address, the […]

Georges Habib

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