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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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Bernie Sanders after Saudi Prison Massacre in Yemen: "We are Complicit in this Nightmare"

Bernie Sanders after Saudi Prison Massacre in Yemen: “We are Complicit in this Nightmare”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi fighter-jets bombed a makeshift prison on a college campus in Dhamar, Yemen, south of the capital of Sana’a eight […]

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Democratic Party
In the Democrats' bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?

In the Democrats’ bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?

By Dennis Altman | – Conservative former congressman Joe Walsh recently announced he would challenge Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s 2020 Presidential nomination. Challenging […]

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Why You can't have Democracy without Strong Workers' Unions

Why You can’t have Democracy without Strong Workers’ Unions

By Christine Owens | – When workers don’t have a voice in their workplace, they eventually lose their voice at the ballot box, too. You […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu is risking war to boost his electoral prospects

Netanyahu is risking war to boost his electoral prospects

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – In an effort to boost his electoral prospects, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking the outbreak of […]

Middle East Monitor

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On Labor Day, US Workers are 1/3 poorer than in 2003 & Top 1% is 2x Richer

On Labor Day, US Workers are 1/3 poorer than in 2003 & Top 1% is 2x Richer

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Labor Day, American workers have little to celebrate. That’s alright. The September Labor Day, while initially proposed by some […]

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Investment
Trump’s Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name

Trump’s Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name

(Informed Comment) – In early 2019, the White House threatened to invade Venezuela, take down the government and replace it with their choice of president […]

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Far Right
Behind Islamophobia Is a Global Movement of Anti-Semites

Behind Islamophobia Is a Global Movement of Anti-Semites

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The world’s Jewish and Muslim communities are both in the firing line of […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Climate Crisis Explained: How to Cut Carbon Emissions & Prepare for Impacts

Climate Crisis Explained: How to Cut Carbon Emissions & Prepare for Impacts

By Ralph Brougham Chapman | – First, let’s accept climate change is happening and will have major negative impacts on New Zealand. Second, let’s also […]

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Trump Gives away US Intel Sources, Methods with Photo of Iran Launch Failure

Trump Gives away US Intel Sources, Methods with Photo of Iran Launch Failure

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump couldn’t contain his inner five-year-old when an Iranian satellite launch at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport went bad last Thursday. […]

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