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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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Israel/ Palestine
World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water

World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Raining Bombs:  Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians

Raining Bombs: Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians

By a Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | – – Inside their homes, a lack of food and water; outside, bombs, snipers and crossfire. […]

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Environment
IC Annual Fundraiser:  Now more than Ever

IC Annual Fundraiser: Now more than Ever

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Let’s get this done, friends. I can’t do it all by myself, and need your contributions […]

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Climate Change
DAPL:  This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival

DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival

Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care

Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care

Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Health services in a children’s hospital in Gaza will be suspended for more than a day […]

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Democracy
From Wanda Sykes to ACLU:  How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump

From Wanda Sykes to ACLU: How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump

TeleSur | – – Building a wall of support against Trump’s wall of rhetoric is the way forward. Wanda Sykes, a Black lesbian comedian, was […]

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Donald Trump
Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump's white supremacist fanbase

Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump’s white supremacist fanbase

By Nicholas Guyatt | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the presidency has put racism at the heart of American politics. […]

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Will Turkey leave NATO for Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Council?

Will Turkey leave NATO for Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Council?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan is talking about joining the Shanghai Cooperation Council as a full member […]

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Antisemitism
Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era

Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era

By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you […]

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