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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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Israel/ Palestine
The Missing Palestinian Visual Archive

The Missing Palestinian Visual Archive

By Reem Abd Ulhamid | – The Palestinian refugee camps…why do they strive to annihilate them? 1982 Palestinian attempts to create a historical visual narrative […]

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Saudi Arabia
Is Saudi Arabia Losing the War in Yemen?

Is Saudi Arabia Losing the War in Yemen?

By Mustafa Fetouri | – Is Saudi Arabia losing its military campaign in Yemen despite being the stronger party enjoying the support of its many […]

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Eurasia
What does it Mean that South Ossetia is Celebrating Independence?

What does it Mean that South Ossetia is Celebrating Independence?

By Richard Foltz | – Tskhinval, Republic of South Ossetia (Informed Comment) – On May 29 South Ossetians celebrated the signing of their declaration of […]

Richard Foltz

Constitution
A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi:  Rashida Tlaib is Right

A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi: Rashida Tlaib is Right

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bob Mueller measures his words, but he is as Merriam Webster’s thesaurus has it, angered, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, […]

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Donald Trump
Robert Mueller Statement Transcript: If we had Found Trump Innocent, We would Have Said So

Robert Mueller Statement Transcript: If we had Found Trump Innocent, We would Have Said So

Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a 10-minute speech from the Justice Department on Wednesday: Transcript: Two years ago, the Acting Attorney General asked me to […]

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Displaced and Refugees
One of Europe's Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies European Political Pressure to Save African Lives

One of Europe’s Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies European Political Pressure to Save African Lives

By Susan H. Smith | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Over nearly five years, the small German charity Sea-Watch has saved more than 37,000 […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Change
No, Nuclear Power can't Solve our Environmental Crisis

No, Nuclear Power can’t Solve our Environmental Crisis

By Heidi Hutner and Erica Cirino | – Aeon | – In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire scorched nearly 100,000 acres of Los Angeles and […]

Aeon

Haredim
The Fall of Netanyahu's Government is a Struggle over the Meaning of Jewishness, not just a Power Play

The Fall of Netanyahu’s Government is a Struggle over the Meaning of Jewishness, not just a Power Play

By Joyce Dalsheim | – Benjamin Netanyahu has hit a snag that could derail his chances of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the history […]

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Why Israeli Gov't May Fall: Like US, Secularists and Fundamentalists are Polarized

Why Israeli Gov’t May Fall: Like US, Secularists and Fundamentalists are Polarized

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We’ll know later today whether prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu will succeed in forming a government. If not, Israel will have […]

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