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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
How Israeli settlements stifle Palestine’s economy

How Israeli settlements stifle Palestine’s economy

By Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh and Leila Farsakh |Al-Shabaka/ Ma’an News Agency | – – Al-Shabaka is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to […]

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Far Right
No, GOP, you can't win by Carpet-bombing

No, GOP, you can’t win by Carpet-bombing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At the GOP debate Tuesday night, Ted Cruz came out swinging wildly. Blitzer: Senator Cruz, you […]

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Human Rights
If the Dead could Speak: The Real People Syrian Regime Tortured to Death

If the Dead could Speak: The Real People Syrian Regime Tortured to Death

By Human Rights Watch | – – "If the Dead Could Speak" reveals some of the human stories behind the more than 28,000 photos of […]

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
Is Corporate Media Enabling GOP Hate Speech?

Is Corporate Media Enabling GOP Hate Speech?

By Sarah Lazare, staff writer| (Commondreams.org) | – – Watchdogs say corporate media is stoking racist and fear-mongering rhetoric The moderators of last night's CNN […]

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National Security State
"No-Fly List" Riddled with Errors, impossible to Get off of

“No-Fly List” Riddled with Errors, impossible to Get off of

By Raymond Bonner | (Special to ProPublica) |- – This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. As the Senate debated a proposal earlier this […]

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Russia
Flash Point: Could Turkey block Russian access to Mediterrranean?

Flash Point: Could Turkey block Russian access to Mediterrranean?

By Tony Wesolowsky | ( RFE/ RL) | – – Could Turkey block Russia’s access to one of the world’s most strategic waterways? That question […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Sign of new Intifada?  Majority of Palestinians support knife attacks

Sign of new Intifada? Majority of Palestinians support knife attacks

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The majority of Palestinians support the recent string stabbing attacks against Israelis, a poll released Monday […]

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Arab World
Top 5 Ways Saudi Arabia really could fight Terrorism, & not by a Vague Coalition

Top 5 Ways Saudi Arabia really could fight Terrorism, & not by a Vague Coalition

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Over the past three days, Saudi Arabia has abruptly put together a 35-nation Muslim coalition to […]

Juan Cole

journalism
Spectaculection:  Bread, Circuses and decline of US Media

Spectaculection: Bread, Circuses and decline of US Media

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Sometimes what matters most takes up every inch of space in the room and somehow we still […]

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