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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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Danish Energy Agency: 100% Renewable Denmark By 2050 Is Possible

Danish Energy Agency: 100% Renewable Denmark By 2050 Is Possible

Originally published on Renew Economy.By Sophie Vorrath A new report by the Danish Energy Agency has found it would be technically possible to construct a secure and reliable national energy system based on 100 per cent renewables by 2050. The report…

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Internet
Big Media is Boring us into accepting End of Net Neutrality: John Oliver

Big Media is Boring us into accepting End of Net Neutrality: John Oliver

John Oliver: “Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they’re doing it so boringly that most news outlets […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
NSA Intercepting Millions of Personal Images for Facial Recognition Tech

NSA Intercepting Millions of Personal Images for Facial Recognition Tech

By Sarah Lazare The National Security Agency is mass collecting facial images through its surveillance programs for use in facial recognition technology, journalists James Risen […]

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Censors
NYT's James Risen risks Jail For Protecting Sources after SC declines to Take Appeal

NYT’s James Risen risks Jail For Protecting Sources after SC declines to Take Appeal

By Trevor Timm: The Supreme Court today rejected New York Times reporter James Risen’s appeal of a 4th Circuit decision that ruled the government can […]

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censorship
No Regime? Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef Cancelled b/c "Enormous Pressure"

No Regime? Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef Cancelled b/c “Enormous Pressure”

So, no regime then? Jon Stewart was on al-Barnamag [“The Program”] last year this time and remarked of the then Muslim Brotherhood government’s prosecution of […]

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Barack Obama
Faced w/ Global Warming Threat,  Obama fudges EPA Carbon Reduction

Faced w/ Global Warming Threat, Obama fudges EPA Carbon Reduction

By Juan Cole President Obama’s decision to unleash the Environmental Protection Agency on US carbon dioxide emitters is a sea change in environmental policy and […]

Juan Cole

astronomy and outer space
Global warming and the vulnerability of Greenland's ice sheet

Global warming and the vulnerability of Greenland’s ice sheet

Posted on 30 May 2014 by John Abraham News continues to emerge in the scientific literature on the future direction of the world’s largest ice sheets; they are undergoing major changes as the climate continues to warm. Among the latest, a new study…

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journalism
#YesAllWomen Changes the Story  in Wake of Isla Vista Massacre

#YesAllWomen Changes the Story in Wake of Isla Vista Massacre

By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star […]

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Republican Party
Top 15 Ways Republicans Have Screwed Our Soldiers and Veterans

Top 15 Ways Republicans Have Screwed Our Soldiers and Veterans

Republicans love waging wars, but they sure don’t seem to love America’s soldiers and veterans. Whether they’re getting our soldiers killed in Iraq or cutting their food stamps here at home, here are the 15 top ways the GOP screws those who serve…

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