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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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Corporations
Is the Gutting of Newspapers by Private Equity Firms the Nail in the Coffin of Democracy?

Is the Gutting of Newspapers by Private Equity Firms the Nail in the Coffin of Democracy?

Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people. ( Inequality.org ) – Has the unthinkable, the […]

Sam Pizzigati

Climate Crisis
UN:  Pace of Climate Change too fast for many Plant and Animal Species to Adapt

UN: Pace of Climate Change too fast for many Plant and Animal Species to Adapt

Shifting seasons, intensifying wildfires and noise pollution are flagged as increasingly urgent environmental issues in a bleak report by the UN Environment Programme. ( China […]

China Dialogue

Donald Trump
The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump

The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s fawning admiration of Vladimir Putin is well known, but it has often been brushed off as a quirk. We […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Why Putin's War against Ukraine is Illegal in International Law

Why Putin’s War against Ukraine is Illegal in International Law

By Hurst Hannum | – Both international law and the United Nations Charter say that countries should not invade each other. But who has the […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Scorching the Earth:  When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02

Scorching the Earth: When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism< When companies flare, they do more than burn natural gas. They […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center

Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have for the first time determined how […]

Clean Energy Wire

Bush
How Bush's Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

How Bush’s Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush issued a statement about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It went like this: DALLAS, TEXAS – “Russia’s […]

Juan Cole

History
Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int'l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict

Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int’l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict

From: The Conversation: The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Suny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, “it is what is left […]

Ronald Suny

Israel/ Palestine
It's Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

( Commondreams.org ) – When Amnesty International released its report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” earlier the month, […]

Phyllis Bennis

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