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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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No More War for Oil: Buy an Electric Car & Never hear about Tankers Again

No More War for Oil: Buy an Electric Car & Never hear about Tankers Again

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the warmonger faction in the Trump administration milks the attack on two oil tankers near the Straits of Hormuz […]

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Iran
Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East

Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East

By Samira Nasirzadeh and Eyad Alrefai | – Relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have rarely been worse, […]

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Iran
Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A 'Dangerous Escalation' in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says

Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A ‘Dangerous Escalation’ in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says

(RFE/RL) – Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf Of Oman have escalated tensions in the Middle East and raised the prospect of […]

Frud Bezhan

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)

Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)

By Abdel Nasser Issa | – Israel not only uses its highly-trained military and security forces against what it calls Palestinian or Islamist “terrorists”, but […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Russia is Calling Trump's Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big

Russia is Calling Trump’s Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big

By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the US is only isolating itself. (Moscow) – President Donald Trump won’t go to war with Iran. That […]

Reese Erlich

Iraq
As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

By Laura Gottesdiener | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There’s a dark joke going around Baghdad these days. Noof Assi, a 30-year-old Iraqi peace activist and humanitarian […]

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Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mysterious mines that blew up two tankers, one of them Japanese-owned and operated, on Wednesday, sent a frisson of […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan's Junta Committed Historic Blunder

In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan’s Junta Committed Historic Blunder

By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – It is still not clear what’s going to have a stronger influence on the choices of the military leaders in […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Iran's Green Uprising 10 Years Later:  A Humanizing Legacy

Iran’s Green Uprising 10 Years Later: A Humanizing Legacy

By Pouya Alimagham (Informed Comment) – June 12, 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of what sparked the Green Uprising in Iran. While many have noted […]

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