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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
Climate Crisis

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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Displaced and Refugees
Not just Madaya: A million people under Food Sieges in Mideast

Not just Madaya: A million people under Food Sieges in Mideast

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Despite international laws prohibiting the use of starvation against civilians, forces on all sides […]

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Counter-Terrorism
8 Ways Nonviolence can Combat Terrorism

8 Ways Nonviolence can Combat Terrorism

By George Lakey | ( Waging Non-Violence) | – – One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how […]

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Climate Change
Zika: As temperatures rise from CO2 Emissions, epidemics spread

Zika: As temperatures rise from CO2 Emissions, epidemics spread

The Tree | – – ““Zika is a disease of poverty, similar to other neglected tropical diseases such as chikungunya and dengue. The burden falls […]

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Displaced and Refugees
That Swedish black-clad anti-refugee Mob beating Children?  Neo-Nazis.

That Swedish black-clad anti-refugee Mob beating Children? Neo-Nazis.

TeleSur | – – The neo Nazi Swedish Resistance Movement claims it was behind a wave of violence in Stockholm targeting homeless refugee children. Swedish […]

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Exasperated by Netanyahu, France Prepares to Recognize Palestinian State

Exasperated by Netanyahu, France Prepares to Recognize Palestinian State

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Even the staunchly pro-Israel French Socialist Party has had it with Israeli expansionism and aggression. French […]

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Bernie Sanders
Will Iowa's Women Dems choose Hillary or Bernie?

Will Iowa’s Women Dems choose Hillary or Bernie?

Judy Woodruff | (PBS Newshour Video Report) | – – “Three days out from the Iowa caucuses, Democrats are weighing whether to go with the […]

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Republican Party
Iowa Primary wins Predict Nothing:  #Iowasowhite & doesn't look like America

Iowa Primary wins Predict Nothing: #Iowasowhite & doesn’t look like America

By Donald Kaul | (Otherwords.org) | – – Who prevails in the Iowa caucuses won’t matter much, except in the fevered imaginations of the political […]

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Syria
World can Bomb Syria but Can't negotiate end to War

World can Bomb Syria but Can’t negotiate end to War

By Simon Mabon | (The Conversation) | – – International talks meant to help resolve the Syrian Crisis are due to commence in Geneva, but […]

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Economy
Iran: The New China?

Iran: The New China?

By: Pepe Escobar | ( TeleSur) | – – If Iran successfully engages in a Chinese-style economic development program it would further enhance its geopolitical […]

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