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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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Israel/ Palestine
Separating anti-Semitism from Anti-Zionism

Separating anti-Semitism from Anti-Zionism

By Lillian Rosengarten | (Informed Comment) | – – The distinction between Zionism and Judaism remains in constant need of clarification and discussion. Fanatics closed […]

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Syria
How Realistic is the Big 5 Peace Plan for Syria?

How Realistic is the Big 5 Peace Plan for Syria?

By Baher Kamal | (IPS) | – – MADRID (IPS) – The “big five” – i.e., the most military powerful states on earth (US, UK, […]

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National Security State
The Surprising Reasons Washington's ISIL Obsession obscures the Real Threats

The Surprising Reasons Washington’s ISIL Obsession obscures the Real Threats

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) It’s time to panic! As 2015 ended, this country was certifiably terror-stricken. It had the Islamic State (IS) on […]

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ISIL/ Daesh Threatens to attack Saudi Arabia after Executions

ISIL/ Daesh Threatens to attack Saudi Arabia after Executions

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has pledged to attack and destroy the two Saudi political prisons, al-Ha’ir (Riyadh) […]

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Nuclear weapons
What is an H-Bomb?

What is an H-Bomb?

Arirang News | (Video Short Documentary) | – – “So North Korea claims it′s a hydrogen not an atomic bomb that it′s tested. But what […]

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Guns
A Letter from Norway on our Epidemic of Mass Shootings

A Letter from Norway on our Epidemic of Mass Shootings

By John L Hanson | (Informed Comment) | – – Why is it easier to buy a gun than to board a Plane? Why doesn’t […]

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Iraq
In Iraq, some Sunni refugees' bulwark against ISIL is . . . the Gated Community

In Iraq, some Sunni refugees’ bulwark against ISIL is . . . the Gated Community

Kamal al-Ayash | Fallujah | (Niqash.org) | – – Families who fled the [so-called] Islamic State [group] have found new homes in a residential complex […]

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Human Rights
Saudi Arabia: Prominent Shia Cleric dead in largest mass execution since 1980

Saudi Arabia: Prominent Shia Cleric dead in largest mass execution since 1980

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Saudi authorities carried out the largest mass execution in the country since 1980, putting 47 men to […]

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Iraqi Shiites up in Arms, claim Saudi "Spying on behalf of ISIL/Daesh"

Iraqi Shiites up in Arms, claim Saudi “Spying on behalf of ISIL/Daesh”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia’s execution on Saturday of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nimr has so far not […]

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