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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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N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court

N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court

TeleSur | – – A state prosecutor had sought to charge Goodman with participating in a “riot” for filming an attack on protesters. A North […]

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Israel/ Palestine
As Winter Comes:  75,000 Palestinians in Gaza still Homeless from Israeli Airstrikes

As Winter Comes: 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza still Homeless from Israeli Airstrikes

By Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov Thursday expressed concerns […]

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ISIL's loss of Dabiq: It was never about Armageddon, but Weak States

ISIL’s loss of Dabiq: It was never about Armageddon, but Weak States

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Albawaba has an interview with political scientist Khalid Rif`at of the Tayyiba Center for Political Studies, […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
The Vanity of the Billionaires:  Circuses and no Bread

The Vanity of the Billionaires: Circuses and no Bread

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Rome was a republic until between 40 and 27 BCE, when the generals overthrew it. Military […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
US Should Stop Making Excuses for Saudi Violations in Yemen

US Should Stop Making Excuses for Saudi Violations in Yemen

By Priyanka Motaparthy | ( Human Rights Watch) | – – Despite rising outrage over the bloody civilian toll in Yemen’s war, the United States […]

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Censors
Journalist Amy Goodman to Surrender and Fight Dakota Charges

Journalist Amy Goodman to Surrender and Fight Dakota Charges

By TeleSur | – – Update: North Dakota prosecutor changes charge against Amy Goodman to ‘rioting.’ The Democracy Now! host said the charge is a […]

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Iraq
Sunni Clans in Iraq threaten Reprisals against ISIL Collaborators

Sunni Clans in Iraq threaten Reprisals against ISIL Collaborators

Kamal al-Ayash | Anbar | (Niqash.org) | – – In Ramadi, tribes are marking houses belonging to suspected Islamic State [group] collaborators with special graffiti. […]

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Christians
Were Kansas White Terrorists Self-Radicalized? or was it Trumpism?

Were Kansas White Terrorists Self-Radicalized? or was it Trumpism?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Tim Potter and Amy Renee Leiker of The Kansas City Star report that 3 southwest Kansas […]

Juan Cole

racism
Trump's voter intimidation revives tactics of Jim Crow white supremacists

Trump’s voter intimidation revives tactics of Jim Crow white supremacists

By Donald Nieman | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump has a lot in common with former Confederates – white southerners who “redeemed” the […]

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