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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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Bahrain
Gulf Arab Women were Finally making Progress, but will the Covid-19 Crash and Austerity set them Back?

Gulf Arab Women were Finally making Progress, but will the Covid-19 Crash and Austerity set them Back?

By Humaira Hansrod | – Citizens of Saudi Arabia are having to get used to something that has long been an unpleasant fact of life […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Coal and Covid:  Trump Facilitates both in a backward US as Europe makes strides against Both

Coal and Covid: Trump Facilitates both in a backward US as Europe makes strides against Both

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US management of the Covid-19 crisis has been horrible compared to Europe, as the famous chart makes clear. I […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Maskless in the Red Death: The Pathology of Trump's Racism is turning our Pandemic into Negligent Genocide

Maskless in the Red Death: The Pathology of Trump’s Racism is turning our Pandemic into Negligent Genocide

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – As Donald Trump sits idly by, the nation is experiencing both a catastrophic public health collapse that has brought […]

Dan Dinello

Pentagon
Amid the Covid-19 Recession, you can't Afford the Bloated Pentagon Budget but Corporations Can

Amid the Covid-19 Recession, you can’t Afford the Bloated Pentagon Budget but Corporations Can

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Imagine that as a member of Congress you are a strong advocate of urban public transit facilities. […]

John Buell

Islam
Islam's anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today

Islam’s anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today

By Asma Afsaruddin | – One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He told them that all people are […]

The Conversation

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Was February '20 Peak Oil Demand?  Petroleum might never Recover From Covid-19 and EVs

Was February ’20 Peak Oil Demand? Petroleum might never Recover From Covid-19 and EVs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julien Mieville at AFP asks the big question: Has global demand for petroleum peaked? The meme of “peak oil” once […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians

As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians

By David Hart | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – For decades, Israel has used talk of peace as a cover for expansion of an […]

Waging Nonviolence

Germany
Over Half of Germany’s Power Use in 1st Half of 2020 was from Wind and Solar, as Coal Sank

Over Half of Germany’s Power Use in 1st Half of 2020 was from Wind and Solar, as Coal Sank

By Julian Wettengel | – Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s power consumption in the first six months of 2020, according to a first […]

Clean Energy Wire

African-Americans
How racism in US health system hinders care and costs lives of African Americans

How racism in US health system hinders care and costs lives of African Americans

By Tamika C.B. Zapolski | – As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the U.S., the virus hit African Americans disproportionately hard. African Americans are still […]

The Conversation

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