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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!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel Raids, Stops Solar Panel Installation in Palestinian Jordan Valley

Israel Raids, Stops Solar Panel Installation in Palestinian Jordan Valley

TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities delivered a stop-construction notice to solar panels, in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, ordering halt of […]

Maan News Agency

Authoritarianism
Are we Trapped in Orwell's '1984'?

Are we Trapped in Orwell’s ‘1984’?

It teaches us that power and tyranny are made possible through the use of words and how they are mediated

The Conversation

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In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

140,000 of the dead are children under 5

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

By Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden (ProPublica), with Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian/OregonLive This story was co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive. The FBI, Department of Homeland […]

ProPublica

Sudan
Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the Sudanese Army’s headquarters in the Ministry of Defence’s complex

The Conversation

Democratic Socialism
The World's Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It

The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It

All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good

George Lakey

Climate Change
Scottish Gov't Announces 'Climate Emergency' in response to Extinction Rebellion Call

Scottish Gov’t Announces ‘Climate Emergency’ in response to Extinction Rebellion Call

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon of the social-democratic Scottish National Party has called a “climate emergency,” doing so in response […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new "Axis of Evil," including Iran, to put US on War Footing

Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new “Axis of Evil,” including Iran, to put US on War Footing

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine, International Law, and a Radically Just Future

Palestine, International Law, and a Radically Just Future

We can learn from other cases of law and settler colonialism. These cases exhibit the same type of juridical erasure

Noura Erekat

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