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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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Trump's attack on a Fair Internet Threatens Free Speech

Trump’s attack on a Fair Internet Threatens Free Speech

By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | – – Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation […]

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Donald Trump
Green France:  Macron bans Fracking and welcomes US renewables Scientists fleeing Trump

Green France: Macron bans Fracking and welcomes US renewables Scientists fleeing Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The French government wants to steal increasingly unemployed US green energy scientists, who are being systematically […]

Juan Cole

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4 Nations twist Qatar's arm, to close down Aljazeera

4 Nations twist Qatar’s arm, to close down Aljazeera

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a bid completely to return the Middle East to the old system of strict government […]

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Iraq
Can the Sadr Movement in Iraq overcome Sectarianism with new Shiite-Sunni-Kurdish Party?

Can the Sadr Movement in Iraq overcome Sectarianism with new Shiite-Sunni-Kurdish Party?

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | ( Niqash.org) | – – One of Iraq’s most powerful political groupings, the Sadrist movement, is trying to form […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Was ISIL's destruction of Mosul's Nuri Mosque Grand Strategy?

Was ISIL’s destruction of Mosul’s Nuri Mosque Grand Strategy?

By Benjamin Isakhan and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona | (The Conversation) | – – On June 29 2014 – nearly three years ago to the […]

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Donald Trump
What will Happen when Trump's Dupes Find Out?

What will Happen when Trump’s Dupes Find Out?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps. […]

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In Apocalyptic Vandalism, ISIL blows up 800-year-old Nuri Mosque in Mosul

In Apocalyptic Vandalism, ISIL blows up 800-year-old Nuri Mosque in Mosul

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – al-Hayat (Life) reports that on Wednesday evening around 9:30 pm local time, Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) blew […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
All Signs from Trump Point to a Coming Conflict with Iran

All Signs from Trump Point to a Coming Conflict with Iran

By John Feffer | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – Behind all of Trump’s boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge […]

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Islam-hatred
What to do when anti-Muslim Hate Speech now passes the Dinner Table Test?

What to do when anti-Muslim Hate Speech now passes the Dinner Table Test?

By Chris Allen | (The Conversation) | – – On hearing the news that Darren Osborne was arrested for terror offences including attempted murder following […]

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