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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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SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders

SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders

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Far Right
Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists

Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an interview with Bill O’Reilly airing Sunday afternoon, O’Reilly observes of Russian President Vladimir Putin: […]

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Climate Change
Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land

Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives “away a taxpayer-owned resource […]

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Authoritarianism
When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .

When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .

TeleSur | – – The illustrator is a Cuban immigrant  who put his views on Trump into a piece of art that is now on […]

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Iraq
Militia Feuding, Insecurity in East Mosul hold up Advance on ISIL

Militia Feuding, Insecurity in East Mosul hold up Advance on ISIL

Mustafa Habib | ( Niqash.org ) | – – The biggest problem in eastern Mosul, post-extremists, is security. The Iraqi army needs to move on, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Tel Aviv: Huge Jewish-, Palestinian-Israeli Rally against racist state, home demolitions

Tel Aviv: Huge Jewish-, Palestinian-Israeli Rally against racist state, home demolitions

Ma’an News Agency | – – TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — Thousands rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in protest of […]

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Africa
In Shocker, Federal Judge in Seattle Halts Trump Muslim Ban

In Shocker, Federal Judge in Seattle Halts Trump Muslim Ban

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When Trump issued his executive order halting immigration from seven countries, suspending the refugee program, and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Mixed Signals:  Now, White House Says Israeli Settlement Building May Not Help Peace

Mixed Signals: Now, White House Says Israeli Settlement Building May Not Help Peace

TeleSur | – – The tone was more measured than previous pro-Israel announcements, but did not go so far as to condemn settlement activity. The […]

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Donald Trump
Taking Iraq’s Oil

Taking Iraq’s Oil

By Edward Hunt | (Foreign Policy in Focus | Originally published in Lobelog. Trump wants Iraq’s oil, and he’s not interested in sharing. The leaders […]

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