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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

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What Has $121,000,000,000 US Aid to Israel Really Bought?

What Has $121,000,000,000 US Aid to Israel Really Bought?

AJ+ Labs “The special relationship between Israel and the United States goes deep…real deep. It’s based on security, conflict and most of all money. Most […]

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Climate Change
Green Energy Robin Hood:  India Doubles Tax on Coal to Fund Solar and Wind

Green Energy Robin Hood: India Doubles Tax on Coal to Fund Solar and Wind

By Smiti Mittal 22,000 MW solar power capacity by 2022, a dedicated national-level program for promoting wind energy generation, implementation of the world’s largest solar […]

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From Kerry to Selena Gomez & Rihanna, Israel's Claims of Precision, Compassion are Dissed

From Kerry to Selena Gomez & Rihanna, Israel’s Claims of Precision, Compassion are Dissed

By Juan Cole You always wonder where John Kerry the anti-Vietnam War activist went, who compared the US campaigns in Southeast Asia to the predations […]

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Ignore the Smears:  Germany's Green Energy is 1/3 of its Power, Price Falling, Coal Down

Ignore the Smears: Germany’s Green Energy is 1/3 of its Power, Price Falling, Coal Down

By Roy L Hales Originally Published on the ECOreport Germany’s renewable sector (RE) is flexing its muscles, with solar production up 28% and wind up […]

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Apartheid
Dodging Israeli Bombs in Gaza:  A Personal Journal of Survival

Dodging Israeli Bombs in Gaza: A Personal Journal of Survival

By Omar Ghraieb Gaza – Every night I seem to think it’s the worst night, until I go through the next one. I got so […]

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Dissent
Noise and Silence in Israel/Palestine Today

Noise and Silence in Israel/Palestine Today

By Shachar Pinsker This is a rather long and not very happy post. You wouldn’t find here much that is new in terms of facts […]

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Christianity
Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

By Juan Cole For the first time in nearly 2000 years, there are virtually no Christians in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. The […]

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Immigration
The Colbert Report: “Questionable Compassion for Child Immigrants”

The Colbert Report: “Questionable Compassion for Child Immigrants”

The Colbert Report: “Questionable Compassion for Child Immigrants” The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive ————-

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Apartheid
Gaza: The Israeli Army's Unlawful Targeting Practices are bad for Children

Gaza: The Israeli Army’s Unlawful Targeting Practices are bad for Children

By Bill Van Esveld, Human Rights Watch The Israel Defense Force has an answer to the shelling yesterday that killed four children near the Gaza […]

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