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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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On Anniversary of D-Day:  Would Trump have bothered, or Been on Other Side?

On Anniversary of D-Day: Would Trump have bothered, or Been on Other Side?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I grew up in the shadow of World War II. It ended only seven years before I was born. I […]

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Bolton may want War with Iran, but the Pentagon is Eyeing China

Bolton may want War with Iran, but the Pentagon is Eyeing China

(Tomdispatch.com) – The recent White House decision to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf […]

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Iran
How Two-Faced Trump has targeted Iran for Sanctions & War while Tweeting "Negotiations"

How Two-Faced Trump has targeted Iran for Sanctions & War while Tweeting “Negotiations”

(Informed Comment) – On May 24, 2018, the Department of Defense organised a Briefing on Iran with the participation of Katie Wheelbarger, Principal Deputy Assistant […]

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Afghanistan
How US "good guys" wiped out an Afghan family

How US “good guys” wiped out an Afghan family

By Jessica Purkiss and Mateen Arian This story was published in partnership with: The New York Times. ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) – It […]

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Pompeo:  Jared Kushner’s Palestine plan “unexecutable;’ Kushner: Palestinians unready for Self-Rule

Pompeo: Jared Kushner’s Palestine plan “unexecutable;’ Kushner: Palestinians unready for Self-Rule

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I can barely believe it. Mike Pompeo, who can believe 10 impossible things before breakfast every day, including the impending […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Will Britain Cave to Trump's Press for Conflict with Iran?

Will Britain Cave to Trump’s Press for Conflict with Iran?

(Informed Comment) – Donald Trump’s military proliferation in the Middle East and further sanctions on Iran, aimed at isolating Tehran, have driven a deeper rift […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Neoliberalism
How Neoliberalism & Privatization are Driving our Crises, from Guatemala to Moscow

How Neoliberalism & Privatization are Driving our Crises, from Guatemala to Moscow

To the corporate media, history goes back only as far as yesterday. Thus the media portray the chaos and violence in Central America as though […]

John Buell

Climate Change
The Extreme Weather of Climate Emergency will Cost US $1 trillion in Ten Years

The Extreme Weather of Climate Emergency will Cost US $1 trillion in Ten Years

By Gary W. Yohe | – June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will prove to be […]

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Hezbollah’s Nasrallah: War on Iran will Endanger US Forces in Region & Kushner Plan for Palestine is “Historic Crime”

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah: War on Iran will Endanger US Forces in Region & Kushner Plan for Palestine is “Historic Crime”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah (Hezbollah), the Lebanese Shiite party-militia, gave a speech Friday in which he raked the […]

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