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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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Republican Party
Boehner: Ted Cruz is Lucifer,  most miserable SOB I've worked with

Boehner: Ted Cruz is Lucifer, most miserable SOB I’ve worked with

New York Daily News | (Video News Report) Ada Statler-Throckmorton of The Stanford Daily reported: “When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made […]

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Fossil Fuels
The Collapse of the Old Oil Order

The Collapse of the Old Oil Order

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Sunday, April 17th was the designated moment.  The world’s leading oil producers were expected to […]

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Trump's Foreign Policy is just GOP Boilerplate, only more Confused

Trump’s Foreign Policy is just GOP Boilerplate, only more Confused

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump tried his hand at foreign policy on Wednesday, and the results weren’t any prettier […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Egypt arrests Hundreds to Stop Protest, including Journalists, Lawyers

Egypt arrests Hundreds to Stop Protest, including Journalists, Lawyers

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Egyptian security forces arrested at least 382 people in the days leading up to and during the […]

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Arms Sales
Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.

Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.

By Rebecca Green | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Military contractors have shelled out over $1 million to the 2016 presidential candidates — including over […]

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War
Globally, deaths from explosive weapons rise 54%, & 3/4s are Civilians

Globally, deaths from explosive weapons rise 54%, & 3/4s are Civilians

TeleSur | – – Civilian casualties from explosive weapons rose by 54 percent in 2015 compared to 2011. More than three-quarters of those harmed by […]

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Authoritarianism
Trump culture: threat, fear and the tightening of the American mind

Trump culture: threat, fear and the tightening of the American mind

By Michele Gelfand and Joshua Conrad Jackson | (The Conversation) | – – For the past 10 months, Donald Trump has been a political enigma. […]

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Bernie Sanders
Winning in Losing:  How Sanders pushed Clinton to the Left

Winning in Losing: How Sanders pushed Clinton to the Left

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bernie Sanders’ path to the nomination as the Democratic Party standard bearer in 2016 was all […]

Juan Cole

Fundamentalists
Not just Trump:  Anti-Muslim Hatred becomes GOP Orthodoxy

Not just Trump: Anti-Muslim Hatred becomes GOP Orthodoxy

Bridge | (Infographic) – – Via Bridge

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