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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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Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos

Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos

By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. | (ProPublica) | – – Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children

Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | – – . . . “There’s no question that, in the worst case, Mosul will represent the […]

Juan Cole

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10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer

10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – WaPo is reporting that it was the FBI investigation of Anthony Weiner that caused new emails […]

Juan Cole

Colonialism
60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War

60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War

By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | – – Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s […]

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Israel/ Palestine
UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to *3* Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It

UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to *3* Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It

By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the UNESCO Resolution full text of the […]

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Iraq:  Barzani pledges Kurdish forces won't Enter Mosul

Iraq: Barzani pledges Kurdish forces won’t Enter Mosul

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (a super-province of Iraq) said Thursday that […]

Juan Cole

Christians
Does Trump's lag prove the end of White Christian America?

Does Trump’s lag prove the end of White Christian America?

Robert P. Jones | The Atlantic | (Video News Report) | – – ‘The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and […]

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Iraq
Int'l Conflict over Aleppo & Mosul is Making local Civil Wars Worse

Int’l Conflict over Aleppo & Mosul is Making local Civil Wars Worse

By Christopher Hill | (Project Syndicate) | – – DENVER – The Middle East’s tragic tale of two cities – Aleppo in Syria and Mosul […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios

Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios

By James L. Gelvin | (The Conversation) | – – Most military analysts believe it’s only a matter of time before Mosul falls. Mosul is […]

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