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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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Rebuking Fundamentalists, Funeral for Palestinian-Israeli Istanbul Victim draws Thousands

Rebuking Fundamentalists, Funeral for Palestinian-Israeli Istanbul Victim draws Thousands

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – One of the thirty-nine victims of the Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) shooting at the Reina nightclub in […]

Juan Cole

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Can Anti-Fracking Movement mount resistance to Trump?

Can Anti-Fracking Movement mount resistance to Trump?

By Emilio Godoy | (Inter Press Service) | – – LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, USA , Jan 4 2017 (IPS) – Earl Hatley, a descendant of […]

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Some Animals are Better:  An American Version of the One-Party State

Some Animals are Better: An American Version of the One-Party State

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Know thyself. It was what came to mind in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory […]

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Some Israeli Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ disarmed Palestinian Suspects

Some Israeli Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ disarmed Palestinian Suspects

Human Rights Watch | – – Calls for Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinian Suspects Proliferate (New York) – Some senior Israeli officials have been encouraging Israeli […]

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Donald Trump
Iran confident Trump's bond with Putin will Benefit it, too

Iran confident Trump’s bond with Putin will Benefit it, too

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iran’s pundits are confident that the country is sitting in the catbird seat. They are elated […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey's Syrian blowback

Turkey’s Syrian blowback

London (Informed Comment) – With the New Year terrorist attack in Istanbul now being claimed by the Islamic State (IS) movement, it is clear that […]

Neil Thompson

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Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump's Deportation Plans?

Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect’s […]

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GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump:  McCain Says he Must 'Stand Up' to Putin

GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin

TeleSur | – – On Friday, Trump congratulated Putin for not retaliating to Obama’s expulsions. On the same day a top aide to President-elect Donald […]

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Authoritarianism
Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House

Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is 2017, and shortly the White House will be inhabited by an unscrupulous, corrupt narcissist […]

Juan Cole

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