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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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History
ISIS and the Abuse of History

ISIS and the Abuse of History

By Akil N. Awan and A. Warren Dockter | ( History Today) | – – Volume 66 Issue 1, January 2016 N. B. IC house […]

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Ghoul's Glossary:  A Donald Trump Translation Dictionary

Ghoul’s Glossary: A Donald Trump Translation Dictionary

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Constitution, US: 1. An time-consuming optional document that can be abrogated for lack of time. 2. […]

Juan Cole

astronomy and outer space
How SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Could Boost Commercial Space Travel

How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Could Boost Commercial Space Travel

ABC News | (Video News Report) | – – “SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the ability to reuse rockets, like its Falcon 9, will […]

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Barack Obama
Did Obama Really “Surrender the Middle East to Putin?”

Did Obama Really “Surrender the Middle East to Putin?”

By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – A perusal of the “writing on the hall” commentary of the Right Wing in the […]

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Far Right
Surprise!  Male Chauvinist Pig Trump gets vulgar with Hillary Clinton

Surprise! Male Chauvinist Pig Trump gets vulgar with Hillary Clinton

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “During the Democratic debate Hillary Clinton returned from the bathroom break […]

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Syria
Is its Syria Adventure destabilizing Turkey?

Is its Syria Adventure destabilizing Turkey?

By Nadir Firat | (Informed Comment) | – – Riza Saka, a lawyer turned TV pundit, declared that “Turkey has nothing to fear” from the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
4,000 Sick Gaza Palestinians need to Leave for Treatment, but are blocked by Israeli, Egyptian Blockades

4,000 Sick Gaza Palestinians need to Leave for Treatment, but are blocked by Israeli, Egyptian Blockades

Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Around 4,000 sick Palestinians in Gaza need to travel through the Rafah crossing on the Gaza […]

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Barack Obama
Obama:  Is the Media Hyping the threat from Daesh/ ISIL?

Obama: Is the Media Hyping the threat from Daesh/ ISIL?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama gave an interview on National Public Radio on Monday in which he attempted to […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
6 US Troops killed by Taliban Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan

6 US Troops killed by Taliban Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan

Curated by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring translates from Pushtu a report from the ‘Afghan Islamic Press’ from Kabul on […]

Juan Cole

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