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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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African-Americans
Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State?

Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State?

By Rebecca Gordon | – ( Tomdispatch) – You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you’re about to […]

Rebecca Gordon

Donald Trump
Sauce for the Gander:  Iran Seeks Interpol Red Notice on Trump for Soleimani Murder

Sauce for the Gander: Iran Seeks Interpol Red Notice on Trump for Soleimani Murder

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mehr News Service reports that Tehran prosecutor Ali al-Qasi Mehr issued an arrest notice with Interpol on Monday for President […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Liberty Endangered:  This July 4, let’s lay claim to the freedom we’ve celebrated, but seldom practiced

Liberty Endangered: This July 4, let’s lay claim to the freedom we’ve celebrated, but seldom practiced

By Robert P. Alvarez | ( Otherwords.org ) – When I was a child, I learned to believe that Americans valued freedom and equality more […]

OtherWords

Donald Trump
The Real Enemy: US Elites Squandered Trillions on War Spending and Underfunded Public Health

The Real Enemy: US Elites Squandered Trillions on War Spending and Underfunded Public Health

By Mandy Smithberger | – In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Washington has initiated its largest spending binge in history. In the process, you might […]

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Epidemics
History's crystal ball: What the past can tell us about COVID-19 and our future

History’s crystal ball: What the past can tell us about COVID-19 and our future

(The Conversation) – During this pandemic, historians have been consulted like the Oracle of Delphi. Is COVID-19 like the Black Death? The 1918 flu? What […]

Ellen Amster

Christianity
As Odd Bed Fellows Fall out, Israel bans Evangelical GOD TV for Evangelizing Jews

As Odd Bed Fellows Fall out, Israel bans Evangelical GOD TV for Evangelizing Jews

What did the Likud Government Expect? “Evangelical” is right there in their Name

Juan Cole

Employment
Amid Pandemic and BLM Protests, Why Minimum Wage Must be Defended and Expanded

Amid Pandemic and BLM Protests, Why Minimum Wage Must be Defended and Expanded

You can’t fault them for lack of effort. Having lost a series of political, legislative, and legal battles to defeat minimum wage increases in cities […]

John Buell

Authoritarianism
What Will It Take to Defeat Trumpism? Learning Lessons from the End of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq

What Will It Take to Defeat Trumpism? Learning Lessons from the End of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq

( Tomdispatch.com) – Let’s assume that Donald Trump loses the election in November. Yes, that’s a mighty big assumption, despite all the polls currently favoring […]

John Feffer

Climate Change
How Modern Human-Driven Climate Change began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century

How Modern Human-Driven Climate Change began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century

By Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis | – The toppling of statues at Black Lives Matter protests has powerfully articulated that the roots of modern […]

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