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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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Iran's Rouhani: "US now sees Iran as only country able to fight terrorism in the region"

Iran’s Rouhani: “US now sees Iran as only country able to fight terrorism in the region”

France24 English | Exclusive | (Video News Report) | – – ‘The Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is in Europe for a historic trip. A visit […]

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Arab Americans
Anne Frank's Stepsister: Donald Trump Is Another Hitler

Anne Frank’s Stepsister: Donald Trump Is Another Hitler

TeleSur | – – Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, said the U.S. presidential candidate was acting like Hitler, while the world acts as […]

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Rhetorical Terror:  GOP Candidates Pledge War Crimes, Carpet-Bombing, Asian Land Wars

Rhetorical Terror: GOP Candidates Pledge War Crimes, Carpet-Bombing, Asian Land Wars

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At the Trumpless GOP debate Thursday evening, the candidates once again promised to bankrupt us with […]

Juan Cole

Pollution
While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.'s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.’s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Following release of new document and emails, Gov. Snyder told he must ‘explain to the […]

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Saudi Arabia
Will Yemen be the Graveyard of the new Saudi Empire?

Will Yemen be the Graveyard of the new Saudi Empire?

By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – Those deciding for war in March 2015 gave little thought to Yemeni realities, military, logistic, topographic, […]

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Iran Unleashed:  Rouhani's Triumphant European Tour

Iran Unleashed: Rouhani’s Triumphant European Tour

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Virtually as soon as the Iran nuclear deal was finally approved by the UN Security Council, Iranian […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

By Liam Kennedy | (The Conversation) | – – When Richard Hofstadter described “a paranoid style in American politics” in 1964, he was referring to […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds. […]

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