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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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Kurds Plan To Seize Kirkuk Militarily

Kurds Plan To Seize Kirkuk Militarily

Kurds Plan to Seize Kirkuk Militarily: Knight Ridder Tom Lasseter of Knight Ridder reports that the Kurds have seeded 10,000 peshmerga militiamen into the Iraqi […]

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Over 10000 Sunnis Secularists March In

Over 10000 Sunnis Secularists March In

Over 10,000 Sunnis, Secularists March in Baghdad against Election Results; Al-Hakim meets Kurdish Leaders AP reports that in Iraq, over 10,000 mainly Sunni Arab demonstrators […]

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Top Ten Myths About Iraq In 2005 Iraq

Top Ten Myths About Iraq In 2005 Iraq

Top Ten Myths about Iraq in 2005 Iraq has unfortunately become a football in the rough and ready, two-party American political arena, generating large numbers […]

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Over 20 Dead 46 Wounded In Guerrilla

Over 20 Dead 46 Wounded In Guerrilla

Over 20 Dead, 46 Wounded in Guerrilla War; Governor of Diyala Wounded in Assassination Attempt Sunnis Threaten Boycott A wave of guerrilla bombings and apparently […]

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Shiites Sunnis Demonstrate Against One

Shiites Sunnis Demonstrate Against One

Shiites, Sunnis, Demonstrate Against one Another over Elections; Five Percent of Ballots Fraudulent: IECI According to Sabrina Tavernise of the New York Times, Sunni Arab […]

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Iraqi Christians In Peril This

Iraqi Christians In Peril This

Iraqi Christians in Peril this Christmas Because of the poor security, Iraqi Christians had to celebrate midnight mass at sundown instead. Many Christians have fled […]

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Sistani Calls For Government Of

Sistani Calls for Government of National Unity According to AFP, Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie met Saturday with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and then […]

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Interlibrary Loan Dhs Story Hoax Story

Interlibrary Loan Dhs Story Hoax Story

Interlibrary Loan/ DHS Story a Hoax The story of the interlibrary loan request for Mao’s Little Red Book that produced an interview by the Department […]

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Achcar Comments On Ic 122405 Gilbert

Achcar Comments on IC 12/24/05 Gilbert Achcar kindly writes: ‘ Dear Juan Two remarks: 1) re: to the “informed reader” of your “informed comment” who […]

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