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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

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Iraq
Iraq: A country whose Future was Stolen (Jamail)

Iraq: A country whose Future was Stolen (Jamail)

Dahr Jamail writes at Tomdispatch.com Back then, everybody was writing about Iraq, but it’s surprising how few Americans, including reporters, paid much attention to the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Qaddafi’s Arms Flooding Middle East from Libya

Qaddafi’s Arms Flooding Middle East from Libya

The UN is concerned that unsecured weapons stockpiles from the depots of the late dictator Muammar Qaddafi are flooding into Africa and the Middle East […]

Juan Cole

Energy
How Climate Change Disrupts Industry:  Michael E. Mann Video Interview

How Climate Change Disrupts Industry: Michael E. Mann Video Interview

Michael E. Mann on the impact of climate change on industry:

Juan Cole

Iraq War
BBC Journalists accidentally Bombed by US Air Force during 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Video)

BBC Journalists accidentally Bombed by US Air Force during 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Video)

BBC crew accidentally bombed by US Air Force during 2003 invasion of Iraq: Video at Youtube:

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Kerry Cajoles Afghanistan and Iraq, as Bush’s former colonies decline to Toe the Line

Kerry Cajoles Afghanistan and Iraq, as Bush’s former colonies decline to Toe the Line

Secretary of State John Kerry just made trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration’s two trophy states, in an attempt to shore up rapidly […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
US Drone Campaign in Pakistan: Amazing Infographic (Serle)

US Drone Campaign in Pakistan: Amazing Infographic (Serle)

Jack Serle writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Pitch Interactive have visualised every CIA drone strike and every casualty in Pakistan. A new interactive […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Viral Video on America's Incredibly Skewed distribution of Wealth

Viral Video on America’s Incredibly Skewed distribution of Wealth

A fascinating video on America’s incredibly skewed wealth distribution, with the top 1% owning 40% and the bottom 40% almost nothing: and it’s getting worse […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Attorney: "Shocked at Conditions," "Animal Cages"

Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Attorney: “Shocked at Conditions,” “Animal Cages”

Russia Today reports on the hunger strikes among Guantanamo prisoners, 166 of whom are said still to be living in small “animal cages” and to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Alarmed at Obama’s New Christian Zionism, Failure to Push for Settlement Freeze

Palestinians Alarmed at Obama’s New Christian Zionism, Failure to Push for Settlement Freeze

Aljazeera English reports on Obama’s failures and successes on his recent Mideast trip. Below, I quote translations from the Palestinian press showing for the most […]

Juan Cole

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