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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

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Islam-hatred
The Conservative Rhetoric of Hate:  How to Lose Friends and legitimate Extremist Worldviews

The Conservative Rhetoric of Hate: How to Lose Friends and legitimate Extremist Worldviews

BY TAREQ A. RAMADAN | (Informed Comment) | – – Highly essentialist and virulent anti-Islamic, anti-Arab ‘conservative’ platitudes on Islam and Muslims being disseminated by […]

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Israel Lobbies
The real Threat to Peace?  Marco Rubio Is Winning the Neocon Primary

The real Threat to Peace? Marco Rubio Is Winning the Neocon Primary

By Sina Toossi | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – With pundits and columnists dissecting and critiquing every word uttered by GOP front-runners Ben […]

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Syria
10 facts the government doesn’t want you to know about Syria

10 facts the government doesn’t want you to know about Syria

By Ian Sinclair | (Open Democracy) | – – Following the Paris terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015, the British government has got its wish […]

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Israel/ Palestine
US nonprofits 'donate $220 mn.' to Israeli Squatter settlements on Palestinian West Bank

US nonprofits ‘donate $220 mn.’ to Israeli Squatter settlements on Palestinian West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over $220 million has been given in tax-exempted US funds to illegal Israeli settlements in the […]

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European Union
Global Outrage at Trump Islamophobia; French PM: "Mr Trump...is feeding hatred and misinformation"

Global Outrage at Trump Islamophobia; French PM: “Mr Trump…is feeding hatred and misinformation”

Euractiv.com | – – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday (8 December) defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his […]

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Barack Obama
Oh, no! Not another American war against evil!

Oh, no! Not another American war against evil!

By Ira Chernus | (Informed Comment) | – – This time, it’s the Islamic State (IS). After the attacks in Paris, Barack Obama, spokesman-in-chief for […]

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Islam-hatred
Feeding the Monster: Islamophobia, Ratings, and Elections

Feeding the Monster: Islamophobia, Ratings, and Elections

Karam Dana | (Informed Comment) | – – Just when you think GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has done it all, you are proven wrong. […]

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American Jews
Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion

Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and other bigots on the far right are nothing new in American […]

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Anti-War Movement
America’s biggest enemy is our own American Exceptionalism

America’s biggest enemy is our own American Exceptionalism

Bjarne Rostaing | (Informed Comment) | – – American Exceptionalism has an appealing patriotic buzz, though we owe the phrase to Josef Stalin, who was […]

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