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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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Acidification of Oceans
The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn't yet Left Africa

The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu: I hope Obama won’t seek to establish a Palestinian state

Netanyahu: I hope Obama won’t seek to establish a Palestinian state

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he “hoped” US President Barack Obama would not seek […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy

Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy

By Fawaz A. Gerges | ( Project Syndicate ) | – – LONDON – Donald Trump’s recent claim that his opponent in the US presidential […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Feds: We can read all your email, and you'll never know

Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know

By Clark D. Cunningham | (The Conversation) | – – Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo […]

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Number of US Troops in Iraq Heading toward 6,000

Number of US Troops in Iraq Heading toward 6,000

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US plans to send another 500 troops to Iraq to help with the massive Mosul […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Questioning US Arms Sales, impunity for Saudi Arabia

Questioning US Arms Sales, impunity for Saudi Arabia

By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) | – – The bi-partisan failure to review the nature and benefit of the US-Saudi relationship has been a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel releases Jerusalem journalist after she served 6-months for Facebook post

Israel releases Jerusalem journalist after she served 6-months for Facebook post

By Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities released Palestinian journalist Samah Dweik on Monday, after she served nearly six months […]

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Colonialism
Colonial Slow Genocide:  Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology

Colonial Slow Genocide: Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking Britain for an apology for its having in 1917 […]

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Saudi Arabia
UN Calls Out Saudi Arabia for Killing Yemeni Women and Children

UN Calls Out Saudi Arabia for Killing Yemeni Women and Children

By TeleSur | – – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanded all parties fighting in Yemen “fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law.” In a […]

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