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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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Is Jimmy Carter right that Obama should Recognize Palestine?

Is Jimmy Carter right that Obama should Recognize Palestine?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jimmy Carter wrote and NYT op-ed yesterday in which he called on Barack Obama to arrange […]

Juan Cole

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Will Trump cancel Iran deal or practice the Art of the Deal?

Will Trump cancel Iran deal or practice the Art of the Deal?

by Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – US President-elect Donald Trump’s bluster about the Iran nuclear deal has created a lot of confusions […]

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Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

TeleSur | – – Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in […]

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Authoritarianism
The Last Days of Democracy?

The Last Days of Democracy?

By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – A fraudulent campaign has resulted in the election of a […]

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Donald Trump
Conspiracy Theorist in Chief: Trump’s falsehood about 2 mn. illegal votes only tip of Melting Iceberg

Conspiracy Theorist in Chief: Trump’s falsehood about 2 mn. illegal votes only tip of Melting Iceberg

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Americans have given the nuclear codes to that crazy uncle you have to sit through Thanksgiving […]

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Iraq
Does Turkey's Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?

Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?

By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | – – The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era […]

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Climate Change
Frackopoly

Frackopoly

by H. Patricia Hynes | ( Truthdig.com) | – – Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment A book by Wenonah […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady

The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady

By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – High above, somewhere behind the black glass façade, President-elect Donald J. Trump was huddled with his […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
In Trump's Shadow, is East Aleppo on Verge of falling to Regime, Russia?

In Trump’s Shadow, is East Aleppo on Verge of falling to Regime, Russia?

By Juan Cole | – – In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Russian backer have […]

Juan Cole

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