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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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Iraq's Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields

Iraq’s Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields

Human Rights Watch | – – All Forces Should Take Necessary Precautions to Protect Civilians (Erbil) – In areas around Mosul, the Islamic State, also […]

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FBI
Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing

Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What is unusual about the FBI’s intervention in the 2016 election is not the intervention. The […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There

Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There

Special Correspondent | Baghdad | Niqash.org | – – NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent explains why people in the city did not resist the [so-called] Islamic State […]

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Climate Change
Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in […]

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Democratic Party
Growing Global Nuclear Threat - as if Election 2016 weren't already bad enough

Growing Global Nuclear Threat – as if Election 2016 weren’t already bad enough

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was […]

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Far Right
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn’t much chance he can win), […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Federal Judge Puts End to "Insane" Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – ‘Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken […]

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Authoritarianism
Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step […]

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Israel/ Palestine
The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

By Aimee Shalan | al-Shabakah | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Current British Complicity It is not only corporate entities such as G4S in […]

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