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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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Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amid the European heat wave, Ruth Mottram of the Danish Meteorological Institute set off a panic this week when she […]

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1917: The Racist, Right Wing Age of Delirium that Trump Resurrected

1917: The Racist, Right Wing Age of Delirium that Trump Resurrected

By Adam Hochschild | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Along rivers prone to overflowing, people sometimes talk of preparing for a 100-year flood — a dangerous surge […]

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Somalia
Slamming Ilhan Omar, Orientalist Sen. Rand Paul confuses Somalia with Game of Thrones

Slamming Ilhan Omar, Orientalist Sen. Rand Paul confuses Somalia with Game of Thrones

By David Pechefsky | – (Informed Comment) – US Senator Rand Paul’s recent statements regarding Somalia are absurd on many levels. They are perhaps not […]

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Saudi Arabia
Shadowy Pro-Saudi D. C. Think Tank that Defended Crown Prince Suddenly Closes

Shadowy Pro-Saudi D. C. Think Tank that Defended Crown Prince Suddenly Closes

(Al-Bab.com) – The Arabia Foundation, a pro-Saudi think tank established in Washington only two-and-a-half years ago suddenly closed down yesterday, citing “ongoing differences” among its […]

Brian Whitaker

Donald Trump
Iran: Germany and France Refuse to be Inducted into Trump's Gulf Naval Operation against Tehran

Iran: Germany and France Refuse to be Inducted into Trump’s Gulf Naval Operation against Tehran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The government of Angela Merkel in Germany has rejected participation in the the Trump administration’s naval mission, “Operation Sentinel,” aimed […]

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Fracking
Stop It! Fracking Can't be Done in a way that doesn't Threaten Human Life

Stop It! Fracking Can’t be Done in a way that doesn’t Threaten Human Life

By Barbara Gottlieb | – Over 1,500 reports show there’s simply no safe way to do it — and it’s harming us all every day […]

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Climate Change
Combatting the Climate Emergency: The Chinese Path or the Green New Deal?

Combatting the Climate Emergency: The Chinese Path or the Green New Deal?

(Tomdispatch.com ) – At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for […]

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Iran
Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran (Bacevich, Cole, Esposito et al.)

Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran (Bacevich, Cole, Esposito et al.)

Via NIAC: July 30, 2019 As foreign-policy practitioners with decades of collective experience in national security and diplomacy, we write to warn that U.S.-Iran tensions […]

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Climate Change
The Climate Emergency comes for the Democrats

The Climate Emergency comes for the Democrats

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite the reluctance of corporate America, its cable news channels and its favorite candidates to tackle the looming menace of […]

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