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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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Employment
From Couriers to factory Laborers, Turkish Workers are Protesting low Wages amid economic Crisis

From Couriers to factory Laborers, Turkish Workers are Protesting low Wages amid economic Crisis

By Doga Celik and Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – Prices are rising in Turkey and people have had enough. The leader of […]

Global Voices

Islam
The Long History of al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as a Center of Sufi Mysticism was even Mentioned by Rumi

The Long History of al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as a Center of Sufi Mysticism was even Mentioned by Rumi

By Ismail Patel | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Before discussing two great Sufis, Abd Al-Ghani Nabulusi and Ibrahim ibn Adham, it is […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Operation Allies Welcome Resettling 70,000 Afghans in US, but they are only Guaranteed 2 Years Here

Operation Allies Welcome Resettling 70,000 Afghans in US, but they are only Guaranteed 2 Years Here

By Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding | – As of February 2022, some 65,000 Afghans evacuated during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan have settled in […]

The Conversation

Australia
Replaced by Mega-battery: Massive 3 GW Coal Plant in Australia forced to Close by Cheaper Wind and Solar

Replaced by Mega-battery: Massive 3 GW Coal Plant in Australia forced to Close by Cheaper Wind and Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Australian firm Orion Energy in New South Wales is closing its massive, nearly 3 gigawatt Eraring coal plant eight […]

Juan Cole

Eastern Europe
Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin’s aim – the threat alone could advance Russia’s goals

Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin’s aim – the threat alone could advance Russia’s goals

By Ronald Suny | – An invasion is not the only way the crisis in Ukraine can play out. A diplomatic solution may yet provide […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
My Life with Maus:  Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World

My Life with Maus: Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Sometimes life has a way of making you realize things about yourself. Recently, I discovered that an urge of mine, almost […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Why we must not allow Climate change to create a dangerous state of “collective helplessness” in Liberal Society

Why we must not allow Climate change to create a dangerous state of “collective helplessness” in Liberal Society

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The “increasingly tangible” threat of climate change and other risks at a global scale, such as the coronavirus pandemic […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Donald Trump
A Republican Genocide of Quackery: COVID-19 has Killed as many Americans  as all our Wars combined

A Republican Genocide of Quackery: COVID-19 has Killed as many Americans as all our Wars combined

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The CDC now estimates that there have been 1,045,389 excess deaths since January 1, 2020, because of COVID-19. PBS estimates […]

Juan Cole

Israel Lobbies
How Glib charges of "Anti-Semitism" at every Human Rights Report on Israel undermines Jewish Civil Rights

How Glib charges of “Anti-Semitism” at every Human Rights Report on Israel undermines Jewish Civil Rights

Madison, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment) – The unqualified branding of people, organizations, reports, and movements as “anti-Semitic” for their criticism of Israel is having […]

Jennifer Loewenstein

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