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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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Turkey's Erdogan exports Press crackdown to US as his guards manhandle Journalists in DC

Turkey’s Erdogan exports Press crackdown to US as his guards manhandle Journalists in DC

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkish President Erdogan visited Washington DC this week to participate in the deliberations on nuclear weapons. […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq:  Shiite Militias issue threats against US Troops going to Iraq to fight Salafi ISIL

Iraq: Shiite Militias issue threats against US Troops going to Iraq to fight Salafi ISIL

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Recently US troops started fighting the [so-called] Islamic State in Iraq [ISIL], with ‘boots on […]

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Is Trump, wrong on everything else, Right on US Foreign Policy?

Is Trump, wrong on everything else, Right on US Foreign Policy?

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – It might take someone of Trump’s vapid visibility to drive home the point […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestine:  It's not the Economy, Stupid

Palestine: It’s not the Economy, Stupid

By Yossi Alpher | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – By all means, give the Palestinians development aid. But let us not delude ourselves that this […]

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Islam-hatred
The Ted Cruz solution won't stop terrorism in the U.S.

The Ted Cruz solution won’t stop terrorism in the U.S.

By Robert Pape and Walker Gunning | ( Chicago Tribune) | – – Most Americans felt the Brussels bombings in the pits of their stomachs. […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Americans Must Challenge Congress on its Knee-Jerk Support for Israeli Expansionism

Americans Must Challenge Congress on its Knee-Jerk Support for Israeli Expansionism

By Thomas Buonomo | (Informed Comment) | – – With recent reports of a potential last-year attempt by the Obama administration to set the parameters […]

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Syria Endgame:  Are Russia and US Planning overthrow of ISIL in al-Raqqa?

Syria Endgame: Are Russia and US Planning overthrow of ISIL in al-Raqqa?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian press had been complaining that the West was ignoring its defeat of terrorism in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
On Palestinian Land Day, Israel has usurped 90% of Jordan Valley in W. Bank

On Palestinian Land Day, Israel has usurped 90% of Jordan Valley in W. Bank

By Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics IMEMC | – – The following is a press release by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic (PCBS), marking […]

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Republican front-runner Donald Trump: Women's "punishment" for abortions

Republican front-runner Donald Trump: Women’s “punishment” for abortions

TeleSur | – – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that women may need to be “punished” for having abortions in the United States. […]

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