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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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Is the US Suddenly entering a Major new War in Iraq & Syria?

Is the US Suddenly entering a Major new War in Iraq & Syria?

Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – The spreading influence of ISIS is forcing Washington into a strategic decision: escalate. Suddenly, and without almost […]

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Is Corporate Media a danger to Society?  Coverage of Trump v. Sanders

Is Corporate Media a danger to Society? Coverage of Trump v. Sanders

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – ABC World News has given one minute to Bernie Sanders this year (actually, it is just […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Can Historic climate agreement protect the world's most vulnerable people?

Can Historic climate agreement protect the world’s most vulnerable people?

The Tree | – – 195 countries reached across traditional divides today to unite behind the greatest moral challenge of our time and seal the […]

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Islam-hatred
What Islamophobia and ISIL/ Daesh have in Common:  The Political Use of Fear

What Islamophobia and ISIL/ Daesh have in Common: The Political Use of Fear

By Ian Buruma | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – There are many roads to political disaster: greed, hubris, the charisma of the […]

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Climate Change
After the COP21 Paris Climate Accord, what we need is an Int'l Climate Court

After the COP21 Paris Climate Accord, what we need is an Int’l Climate Court

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The climate pact forged at Paris lacks real teeth and so in and of itself will […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh in the Digital Realm

Daesh in the Digital Realm

By Michael Degerald | (History x ISIS) | – – In popular discussion of the Islamic State, several topics have received the vast majority of […]

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Should an al-Qaeda Ally have a seat at the Syrian Table? Al-Assad rejects talks w/ any armed Group

Should an al-Qaeda Ally have a seat at the Syrian Table? Al-Assad rejects talks w/ any armed Group

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Riyadh conference of the Syrian opposition this week included political groups but also nine armed […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “The hollowing of the middle has proceeded steadily for four decades, and it may have […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here's What's going to happen to you and your children

Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here’s What’s going to happen to you and your children

By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | – – At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At […]

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