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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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Endangering the Planet:  Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration

Endangering the Planet: Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli Squatters

Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli Squatters

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Thursday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the neighborhood of Saadiya in […]

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Trump-inspired felon allegedly torches Ft. Pierce FL Mosque, says “All Islam is radical”

Trump-inspired felon allegedly torches Ft. Pierce FL Mosque, says “All Islam is radical”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Joseph Michael Schreiber stands accused of having carried out an arson attack against a mosque in […]

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Busting the Myths about Syrian Refugees in the US

Busting the Myths about Syrian Refugees in the US

Jeffrey H. Cohen | (The Conversation) | – – On Sept. 12, a new cease-fire took effect in Syria. With a lull in fighting, some […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel gets $38 Bn from US as it Strangles Palestinian Economy

Israel gets $38 Bn from US as it Strangles Palestinian Economy

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian economy remains “worrying” as growth stagnation, delays in aid delivery, and Israeli restrictions continue […]

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Barack Obama
Obama has one last Chance to remedy his Colossal Failure on Palestine/Israel

Obama has one last Chance to remedy his Colossal Failure on Palestine/Israel

By Carl Bildt | ( Project Syndicate ) | – – STOCKHOLM – Next year marks the centennial of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement […]

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Bill of Rights
Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were 'Necessary, Vital Things'

Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were ‘Necessary, Vital Things’

by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘I think when people look at the calculations of benefit, it is clear that in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Right-wing Israeli ministers meet with Facebook to discuss censoring ‘anti-Semitic incitement’

Right-wing Israeli ministers meet with Facebook to discuss censoring ‘anti-Semitic incitement’

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Two right-wing Israeli ministers reportedly met with top Facebook executives on Monday in an effort to […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria Truce holds, despite questions on Humanitarian Aid

Syria Truce holds, despite questions on Humanitarian Aid

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The London pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-`Arabi reports that the truce that began Monday night held during […]

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