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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lebanese Ministry of Energy has let three bids for new solar farms of 15 megawatts each, for a total […]

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

09/29/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the 'Ministry of Utmost Happiness'

Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the ‘Ministry of Utmost Happiness’

By Ali Kazimi | (The Conversation) | – – Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over […]

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Donald Trump
Resistance is Fertile

Resistance is Fertile

Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair […]

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Influence:  Russia just Imitated the Rupert Murdoch/Fox Model

Influence: Russia just Imitated the Rupert Murdoch/Fox Model

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Purloined Letter,” detective C. Auguste Dupin discovers a stolen letter in the […]

Juan Cole

Education
Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP

Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new Pew poll finds that 58% of Republicans now say that colleges and universities have […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

By IMEMC News | – – Most of the projections for 2020, on the situation in the Gaza Strip, have deteriorated further and faster than […]

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Employment
Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | – – While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the […]

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Iraq
Rolex "Caliph" of ISIL Dead:  Syrian Observatory

Rolex “Caliph” of ISIL Dead: Syrian Observatory

TeleSur | – – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death has been widely speculated for months. Reports from the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, SOHR, […]

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Top 5 Muslim-related Hypocrisies in the Donald Trump Jr. Russia Meeting

Top 5 Muslim-related Hypocrisies in the Donald Trump Jr. Russia Meeting

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The dishonesty and bad faith of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and general pose of hating Muslims […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
S. Africa ruling party will downgrade ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation

S. Africa ruling party will downgrade ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation

Ma’an News Agency | – – PRETORIA (Ma’an) — The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa, voted on Tuesday in favor […]

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