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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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UN Security Council Condemns Further Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land, with Rogue State US Vetoing

UN Security Council Condemns Further Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land, with Rogue State US Vetoing

The US acted again as the rogue state at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, with the other 14 members issuing statements condemning Israeli […]

Juan Cole

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Human Rights Abuses in Pakistan’s Tribal Belt: Amnesty Int’l Report (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Last week Amnesty International highlighted just how troubled this tribal region is, charting human rights […]

Juan Cole

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Why our Hair is not on Fire about Cutting Emissions, and what to do about it (Giesen)

Why our Hair is not on Fire about Cutting Emissions, and what to do about it (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Multiple reasons why global warming mitigation will fail Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing. The […]

Juan Cole

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Benghazi’s Deep Throat fingers Islamist Leaders for Attacks as State Dept Criticized on Consular Security

Benghazi’s Deep Throat fingers Islamist Leaders for Attacks as State Dept Criticized on Consular Security

The report saying that security was inadequate at the compound that the US had adopted as its ad hoc consulate in Benghazi, Libya, dominates today’s […]

Juan Cole

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ALEC, NRA Lobby the American Deep State on Behalf of Semi-Automatic Weapons Sales (Democracy Now)

ALEC, NRA Lobby the American Deep State on Behalf of Semi-Automatic Weapons Sales (Democracy Now)

Democracy Now! reports on how the gun lobby, the NRA, is outspending the gun control advocates by 10 to 1 on Capitol Hill. And Lisa […]

Juan Cole

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TSA Commission will Look at Health Effects of Backscatter X-Ray Scanners (Grabell)

TSA Commission will Look at Health Effects of Backscatter X-Ray Scanners (Grabell)

Michael Grabell writes at ProPublica Following months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to […]

Juan Cole

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Deaths by Firearms across the World – America among the Worst

Deaths by Firearms across the World – America among the Worst

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Juan Cole

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American Torture, America's Soul (van Buren)

American Torture, America’s Soul (van Buren)

Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com An All-American Nightmare Why Zero Dark Thirty Won’t Settle the Torture Question or Purge Torture From the American System […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Most Popular Informed Comment Postings, 2012

Top Ten Most Popular Informed Comment Postings, 2012

It has been an incredible year, with the Republican presidential primary, the mass shootings in Aurora, Wisconsin and at Newtown, Mass.; the attack on the […]

Juan Cole

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