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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israel has Kidnapped ("Detained") a million Palestinians since 1967: Occupation as Imprisonment

Israel has Kidnapped (“Detained”) a million Palestinians since 1967: Occupation as Imprisonment

By Saed Bannoura | (IMEMC) | – – The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped […]

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Petroleum
Gas Prices to stay Low?  Saudi-Iran Tensions Block Oil Output Freeze

Gas Prices to stay Low? Saudi-Iran Tensions Block Oil Output Freeze

TeleSur | – – Oil producing countries meeting in Doha failed to reach an agreement to freeze output. They may meet again in June. OPEC […]

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journalism
Then they took the "Info" out of Infotainment; Corporate 'News' Cashes in on Fascism

Then they took the “Info” out of Infotainment; Corporate ‘News’ Cashes in on Fascism

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Think of the 2016 presidential campaign as the political equivalent of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of […]

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Egypt
What's behind Egyptian Protests over Islands given to Saudi Arabia?

What’s behind Egyptian Protests over Islands given to Saudi Arabia?

By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen | (Informed Comment) | – – The recent return of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia by the […]

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Arab Americans
Arab-Americans, including 'Watan' Newspaper, Endorse Bernie Sanders

Arab-Americans, including ‘Watan’ Newspaper, Endorse Bernie Sanders

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many Arab-Americans want the Jewish candidate to be president. The prominent Arabic-language newspaper for that community […]

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science
Canada's Trudeau explains Quantum Computing, as GOP candidates boast science illiteracy,

Canada’s Trudeau explains Quantum Computing, as GOP candidates boast science illiteracy,

CBC | (Video News Report) | – – “Justin Trudeau responds to a flip question from reporter with a good-natured, not-so-flip answer.” CBC News: “PM […]

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Nuclear weapons
Do Donald Trump's 'Terrifying' Nuclear Threats endanger You?

Do Donald Trump’s ‘Terrifying’ Nuclear Threats endanger You?

By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump has once again violated all mainstream thinking to advance a dangerous and deviant policy, […]

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Christians
In rebuke to Europe, Pope brings 3 Syrian Muslim Refugee Families  to Vatican

In rebuke to Europe, Pope brings 3 Syrian Muslim Refugee Families to Vatican

Rome Reports | (Video News Segment) | – – “In total, he is taking 12 people with him. They are all from Syria.” Rome Reports: […]

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art and photography
Saadi on Impatient Love (Poem of the Day)

Saadi on Impatient Love (Poem of the Day)

By Muslih al-Din “Saadi” Mushrif ibn Abdullah Shirazi | Trans. Reynold A. Nicholson | – – The heart that loves with patience — a stone […]

Juan Cole

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