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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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A Guru for Our Time:  Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

By Stuart Schaar | (Informed Comment) | – – In the early 1960s I was living in Rabat while researching my doctoral dissertation for Princeton […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | – – Hassan Hafouzi* and his family paid people smugglers so they could leave Mosul, the city controlled by the […]

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How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Political Satire In the course of the second GOP debate at CNN, anchor Jake Tapper asked […]

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Syria
America can -- and should -- Do More for Syrian Refugees

America can — and should — Do More for Syrian Refugees

By Chris Toensing | (Otherwords.org) | – – Imagine that 58 million Americans were streaming into Canada and Mexico, many with only a small satchel […]

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Iran
Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran's real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran’s real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

By RFE/RL | – – – Iran’s President Hassan Rohani has warned that water shortages, unemployment, inflation, and problems like drug addiction are threatening the […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Several foreign activists stripped bare near the Israeli separation wall in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in refusal […]

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Pope Francis Endorses Iran Deal:  Another Dilemma for GOP Catholic Candidates

Pope Francis Endorses Iran Deal: Another Dilemma for GOP Catholic Candidates

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Republican presidential candidates are virtually unanimous that human-caused climate change is a hoax and burning […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
Islam Hysteria:  14 yr old Muslim Student Invents Digital Clock, is Arrested

Islam Hysteria: 14 yr old Muslim Student Invents Digital Clock, is Arrested

The Dallas Morning News | (Video Interview with Ahmad Mohamed) | – – “Ahmed Mohamed, 14, an Irving MacArthur High student who invents as a […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Favoring Christian over Muslim refugees is bad for everyone

Favoring Christian over Muslim refugees is bad for everyone

By Sarah Hackett | (The Conversation) | – – The unfolding refugee crisis has been marked by stories of displacement, violence and despair. There have […]

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