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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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Assange Indictment Marks Alarming New Stage in US Gov't's War on Leaks

Assange Indictment Marks Alarming New Stage in US Gov’t’s War on Leaks

Mexico City ( Committee to Protect Journalists) – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment last week of WikiLeaks […]

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Climate Change
Youth Don’t want to be Scared by Climate Crisis: They Want Practical Solutions

Youth Don’t want to be Scared by Climate Crisis: They Want Practical Solutions

By Dimitrinka Atanasova and Kjersti Fløttum | – Days after the British parliament declared a “climate emergency”, The Guardian announced that it would start using […]

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Arab World
Arab League, GCC Summits Rattled Sabers at Iran but ignored Arab world's Humanitarian Crises

Arab League, GCC Summits Rattled Sabers at Iran but ignored Arab world’s Humanitarian Crises

By Thembisa Fakude | @fakudet | – Saudi Arabia hosted three summits side-by-side this week. Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud hosted the 14th […]

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Firearms are used to Murder 11,000 /yr in US; N. Zealand Banned Semi-Automatic Guns after 50 Killed

Firearms are used to Murder 11,000 /yr in US; N. Zealand Banned Semi-Automatic Guns after 50 Killed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Virginia Beach shooter killed 12 and put at least 4 others in hospital being operated on for their injuries. […]

Juan Cole

racism
Why Brown Terrorists are 'Terrorists' and White Terrorists are just 'Mentally Ill'

Why Brown Terrorists are ‘Terrorists’ and White Terrorists are just ‘Mentally Ill’

By Maha Hilal | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Whether authorities classify an act as “terrorist” depends almost entirely on who carries it […]

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Donald Trump
With Trump Doubling down on Yemen War, Will Congress End Imperial Presidency?

With Trump Doubling down on Yemen War, Will Congress End Imperial Presidency?

R. Joseph Parrott | – The Trump administration on May 24 announced an emergency declaration to sell billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi […]

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Israel
Four Things to Watch as Israel goes to New Elections

Four Things to Watch as Israel goes to New Elections

By Rebecca Stead | – For the second time in a year, Israel is heading to the polls. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who […]

Middle East Monitor

Arab World
Saudi King Salman calls at Summit for Int'l Condemnation of Iranian "Terrorism"

Saudi King Salman calls at Summit for Int’l Condemnation of Iranian “Terrorism”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The emergency summit of the Arab league just held in Mecca had as it purpose to shore up pan-Arab support […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Troika Fevers:  Key American Allies in the Middle East are the Real Tyrants

Troika Fevers: Key American Allies in the Middle East are the Real Tyrants

(Tomdispatch.com) – American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military interventions than it can reasonably […]

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