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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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Libyans say CIA Tortured Them (Ross)

Libyans say CIA Tortured Them (Ross)

Alice Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism President Bush and his CIA director Michael Hayden have each claimed that the US has in […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (172) “A passion for heavenly goddesses”

Omar Khayyam (172) “A passion for heavenly goddesses”

I hope my mind will always be consumed  by a passion for heavenly goddesses, and that my hand will always  cradle the juice of the grape. They […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Democrats:  If you do That you have to do This

Dear Democrats: If you do That you have to do This

Dear Democratic Party: If you bring Gabby Giffords to say the Pledge of Allegiance, you have to bring up the issue of gun control somewhere […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Ways we are Better off than in January 2009

Top Ten Ways we are Better off than in January 2009

It is breathtaking impudence that Republicans should try to campaign on whether we are better off than were were in the last six months of […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan

US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia (Woods & Serle)

Chris Woods and Jack Serle write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Pakistan: August sees the highest number of CIA strikes in Pakistan since October […]

Juan Cole

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Science Fictional Despair in Deraa, Syria (Photo)

Science Fictional Despair in Deraa, Syria (Photo)

h/t The New Syria

Juan Cole

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Was the Rachel Corrie Verdict the end of Israel’s Judicial Credibility?  (Marlowe)

Was the Rachel Corrie Verdict the end of Israel’s Judicial Credibility? (Marlowe)

Jen Marlowe writes in a guest column for Informed Comment August 28, 2012: Cindy and Craig Corrie and Sarah Corrie Simpson made their way into […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan’s US Bases: Big Government Conservatives Love (Turse)

Afghanistan’s US Bases: Big Government Conservatives Love (Turse)

Nick Turse writes at Tomdispatch: Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great […]

Juan Cole

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Is Obama more Klingon or more Vulcan? & Michael Dorn Pitches “Captain Worf”

Is Obama more Klingon or more Vulcan? & Michael Dorn Pitches “Captain Worf”

Actor Michael Dorn has confirmed that he is trying to develop a new television show, “Star Trek: Captain Worf.” He told Star Trek News, “I […]

Juan Cole

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