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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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Neofascist Trump Appointee Bannon:  "Anger is a Good thing" "if you're Fighting to Take this Country Back"

Neofascist Trump Appointee Bannon: “Anger is a Good thing” “if you’re Fighting to Take this Country Back”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump named Neofascist Stephen Bannon as his White House strategist, a co-equal with incoming White […]

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Arab World
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

By Christopher M. Davidson | (Informed Comment) | – – Swept along on a tidal wave of euphoria, by spring 2011 many had cautiously begun […]

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Iraq War
A Gwen Ifill Interview with Juan Cole on Iraq & US Withdrawal:  In Memoriam

A Gwen Ifill Interview with Juan Cole on Iraq & US Withdrawal: In Memoriam

Gwen Ifill/ Juan Cole | (PBS NewsHour) | – – Gwen Ifill, long-time co-anchor of the PBS Newshour, is dead at 61, after a battle […]

Juan Cole

Counter-Terrorism
Real-Life Trolling:  How Provocation Works and How to Respond

Real-Life Trolling: How Provocation Works and How to Respond

By Joshua Cole | ( The Michigan Daily) Yesterday was the anniversary of the attacks in Paris at the Bataclan concert venue and other locations […]

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Democratic Party
Election Postmortem:  Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride?

Election Postmortem: Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride?

By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – – According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Labor Unions Step Up Presidential Election […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism:  Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL

Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Sting, 65, played a concert at the Bataclan Theater where ISIL terrorists killed 90 innocent people […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately

Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately

TeleSur | – – U.S. president-elect Donald Trump didn’t back down from his hardline stance on immigration Sunday in his first interview since winning the […]

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Donald Trump
Do Trump Insiders' links to Netanyahu, Iranian political Cult, Spell Trouble for Tehran?

Do Trump Insiders’ links to Netanyahu, Iranian political Cult, Spell Trouble for Tehran?

By Arash Aziz | ( Globalvoices.org | – – Among the foreign policy think tanks and pundits of New York and DC, few supported Trump […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel to legalize squatter outposts in Palestinian West Bank, hinting at Annexation

Israel to legalize squatter outposts in Palestinian West Bank, hinting at Annexation

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday evening unanimously approved a law that would retroactively legalize outposts […]

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