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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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India, Infringing Basic Freedoms, must Restore Kashmir’s Internet, Phones

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Rouhani in Abrupt About-Face Says US must Reenter Nuclear Accord, Drop Sanctions before any Talks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday backtracked on the willingness he had seemed to express to meet US President Donald […]

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Saudi-led coalition in Yemen undergoes emergency repairs after Internal Faction-Fighting

Saudi-led coalition in Yemen undergoes emergency repairs after Internal Faction-Fighting

( Al-Bab.com) – The Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen’s Houthis is undergoing emergency repairs following last week’s armed clashes between rival anti-Houthi forces. The […]

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Israel's Harsh Collective Punishment of Gaza Palestinians aims at Ethnic Cleansing

Israel’s Harsh Collective Punishment of Gaza Palestinians aims at Ethnic Cleansing

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – A Palestinian pharmacist from the Gaza Strip, Tamer Al-Sultan, 38, passed away last week in a hospital […]

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Iran: All of a Sudden, Rouhani & Trump are Willing to Meet, Bucking their Hard Liners

Iran: All of a Sudden, Rouhani & Trump are Willing to Meet, Bucking their Hard Liners

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Fars News Agency reports that on Monday morning in the wake of Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif’s meeting with his […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Jewish Liberalism v. Jewish Nationalism:  How Trump's tweets on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Pitched an Old Divide

Jewish Liberalism v. Jewish Nationalism: How Trump’s tweets on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Pitched an Old Divide

By Noam Pianko |- President Trump recently asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deny entry to two Democratic congresswomen planning to visit Israel. Representatives […]

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Climate Fail: Big Oil is corrupting both Parties in Desperate Bid to Burn more Petroleum

Climate Fail: Big Oil is corrupting both Parties in Desperate Bid to Burn more Petroleum

By Daphne Wysham | – ( Otherwords.org) – Burning fossil fuels boils our planet — that much is generally well known. But often these fuels […]

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The Democracy in Europe Movement Should Demand of Israel the international rule of law for Palestinians

The Democracy in Europe Movement Should Demand of Israel the international rule of law for Palestinians

By Arturo Desimone | – An appeal to The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM25, a pan-European political movement launched in 2015 by former […]

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Horrific Amazon Wildfires: How do they Threaten Us, and how can we stop them?

Horrific Amazon Wildfires: How do they Threaten Us, and how can we stop them?

By Jos Barlow and Alexander C. Lees | – Imagine a rainforest at dawn – the tall canopy laden with dripping ferns and orchids, tree […]

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