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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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Israeli Squatters scrawl hate graffiti on Jerusalem Church

Israeli Squatters scrawl hate graffiti on Jerusalem Church

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Suspected Israeli extremist wrote threatening hate speech on the doors of an ancient church in the […]

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Iran
Jubilation in Iran on "Implementation Day" ending Sanctions

Jubilation in Iran on “Implementation Day” ending Sanctions

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | – – Share this:         The Sunday January 17 cover for Iranian reformist newspaper Ghanoon states: […]

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African-Americans
On MLK Day, let's Remember Ike's warning about the Military-Industrial Complex

On MLK Day, let’s Remember Ike’s warning about the Military-Industrial Complex

By Shahid Buttar | Electronic Frontier Foundation [Sunday] marked the 55th anniversary of a world-historical speech by the last war hero to occupy the White […]

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Christians
Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?

Evangelical Militarism & Islamophobia? Does the Wheaton College Hawkins case signal a Problem?

By Damon F. Lynch | (Informed Comment) | – – Evangelical university Wheaton College has generated global attention by suspending and initiating the firing of […]

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Daesh/ ISIL carries off 400 Women & Children from Deir al-Zor to a fate worse than Death

Daesh/ ISIL carries off 400 Women & Children from Deir al-Zor to a fate worse than Death

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) on Sunday attacked an isolated outpost of the Syrian Arab Army in a […]

Juan Cole

Internet
Can Twitter be Sued for 'Facilitating' ISIL Terrorism?

Can Twitter be Sued for ‘Facilitating’ ISIL Terrorism?

By Bruce Baer Arnold | (The Conversation) | – – If ISIS and its supporters use Twitter to facilitate terrorist action or merely spread propaganda, […]

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Plutocracy
Sanders: Michigan Governor Must Resign over Flint Lead-Poisoning Crisis

Sanders: Michigan Governor Must Resign over Flint Lead-Poisoning Crisis

By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder […]

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Iraq
Iraq:  Ethnic Fighting endangers Civilians; now it's Kurds and Shiites

Iraq: Ethnic Fighting endangers Civilians; now it’s Kurds and Shiites

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Kurdish and Shia Turkmen armed groups have repeatedly harmed and endangered civilians in clashes in Iraq’s Tuz […]

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Foreign Policy
Out of Gas in Iranian Waters

Out of Gas in Iranian Waters

By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | – – Why did two U.S. Navy boats drift into Iranian waters? And why was it so […]

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