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

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

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Can the Liberation of Mosul begin to free the Mideast from Fundamentalism?

Can the Liberation of Mosul begin to free the Mideast from Fundamentalism?

By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | – – After an offensive lasting nearly nine months, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, walked through the […]

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Donald Trump
How Dangerous is Trump’s Flirtation with Violence?

How Dangerous is Trump’s Flirtation with Violence?

By Ian Buruma | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – Some people might have dismissed Donald Trump’s recent tweet of a video clip […]

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Corruption
Hobby Lobby caught smuggling Iraqi Antiquities (TYT)

Hobby Lobby caught smuggling Iraqi Antiquities (TYT)

Cenk Uygur and Brett Erlich | (The Young Turks News Video) || – – “Hobby Lobby just got caught smuggling. Cenk Uygur and Brett Erlich, […]

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Donald Trump
We have dire Problems: Don't be distracted by Trump's Twitter Cascades

We have dire Problems: Don’t be distracted by Trump’s Twitter Cascades

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – I don’t tweet, but I do have a brief message for our president: Will you please get […]

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Iraqi Gov't declares "mighty Triumph" over ISIL in Mosul, as Sunni Press decries Casualties

Iraqi Gov’t declares “mighty Triumph” over ISIL in Mosul, as Sunni Press decries Casualties

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Al-Mada reports that 24 hours after Mosul was completely liberated from the hold of Daesh (ISIS, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
G19 outmaneuvers climate Rogue Trump, ignores Donald & Ivanka

G19 outmaneuvers climate Rogue Trump, ignores Donald & Ivanka

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – German Chancellor Angela Merkel ran rings around Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg, where pictures […]

Juan Cole

journalism
Al Jazeera Defies Saudi Bloc's pressure to close: 'Journalism itself is under Siege'

Al Jazeera Defies Saudi Bloc’s pressure to close: ‘Journalism itself is under Siege’

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain want Al Jazeera – including AJ+ – to be shut […]

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Foreign Policy
Syria: US & Russia Agree to Ceasefire, De-Escalation: But will it Hold?

Syria: US & Russia Agree to Ceasefire, De-Escalation: But will it Hold?

TeleSur | – – Rex Tillerson praised the agreement as indicative of future cooperation in Syria, but also said that the United States still sees […]

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When will gasoline cars be illegal?  France throws its Beret into the Ring

When will gasoline cars be illegal? France throws its Beret into the Ring

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The answer to the question in the title depends very much on the precise question being […]

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