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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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A Story More Important than Debt Limit Kabuki

A Story More Important than Debt Limit Kabuki

I take it the American news cycle is dominated by the artificial debate over raising the debt limit. It is a silly season story. The […]

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Libya
Controversies over Younis assassination in Libya

Controversies over Younis assassination in Libya

Abdel Fattah Younis, military leader of the Free Libya Forces, was assassinated Thursday. Younis was too close to Qaddafi, despite his defection, to remain truly […]

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India
Dear Foreigner-Haters:  Immigration is Good for You

Dear Foreigner-Haters: Immigration is Good for You

Why is there such strong anti-immigrant sentiment in the industrialized democracies, and why does it get focused on Muslims? The shooting rampage and bombing by […]

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Islamophobia
O’Reilly’s Muslim-Hatred and Christian Terrorists

O’Reilly’s Muslim-Hatred and Christian Terrorists

Television commentator Bill O’Reilly lambasted the press for referring to Anders Breivik as a Christian terrorist, on the grounds that he is not a practicing […]

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Boycott Beck!  Brands Child Victims Hitler Youth

Boycott Beck! Brands Child Victims Hitler Youth

Glenn Beck, who was purveyed to the American public in their millions by Time Warner’s CNN for some time, before he was picked up and […]

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Islamophobia
The Irrelevance of the Knights in a Global Society

The Irrelevance of the Knights in a Global Society

Norwegian right wing Christian terrorist Anders Breivik spoke of being a member of the “Knights Templar,” and if anything is further terrorizing about Friday’s attacks […]

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Islam
When Extremism Learns to Blow things Up

When Extremism Learns to Blow things Up

The revelation by CNN that Norwegian right wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik kept a diary in which he obsessed about the dangers of cultural Marxism, […]

Juan Cole

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White Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism in Norway

White Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism in Norway

That the horrible terrorist attacks in Oslo on Friday that left some 90 persons or more dead– a bombing of the prime minister’s office and […]

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Syria
Syrian Gov't Besieges Homs Ahead of Friday Demonstrations

Syrian Gov’t Besieges Homs Ahead of Friday Demonstrations

AP reports that most people were trapped in their homes as gunfire crackled in the background in Homs, Syria, the country’s third-largest city on Thursday. […]

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