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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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Christianity
Tear them down? “White Jesus” statues have an Unsavory History in Aryan Racial Theory that also Influenced Nazi Theology

Tear them down? “White Jesus” statues have an Unsavory History in Aryan Racial Theory that also Influenced Nazi Theology

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Emily McFarlan at the Religion News Service explores the controversy over depictions of Jesus as white in American statues. She […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll:  The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll: The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Today the United States eclipsed 125,000 deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic, and the worst might be yet to come. […]

David Faris

Israel/ Palestine
Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister's Wedding

Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister’s Wedding

( Middle East Monitor) – For Palestinians, Israel’s military checkpoints are made for its colonial violence and perpetual dehumanisation of the occupied population. In the […]

Ramona Wadi

art and photography
A Drunken Nightingale: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Honolulu's Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art

A Drunken Nightingale: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Honolulu’s Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design | Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art |- Here is a short video made while I […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump's incompetence has Reduced Americans to Lepers whom Europe won't Let in

Trump’s incompetence has Reduced Americans to Lepers whom Europe won’t Let in

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The French press is reporting that the European Union is opening its borders on July 1, but will keep them […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Only a Criminal Regime would Coerce Int'l Criminal Court as Trump is Doing -- Oh wait

Only a Criminal Regime would Coerce Int’l Criminal Court as Trump is Doing — Oh wait

By Tasnim Nazeer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Trump administration in Washington has attempted repeatedly to block investigations by the International […]

Middle East Monitor

Nonviolence
Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents

Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents

By Jennifer Earl, James J. Nolan, Jessica Maves Braithwaite and Kirssa Cline Ryckman | – Scholars: Kirssa Cline Ryckman, Jennifer Earl, Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University […]

The Conversation

Eastern Orthodox
When even Trump's Supreme Court upholds Gay Rights, You know Christian Fundamentalism has Lost

When even Trump’s Supreme Court upholds Gay Rights, You know Christian Fundamentalism has Lost

Charleston, WV (Special to Informed Comment) – This month’s Supreme Court decree that gays cannot be fired from jobs simply because they’re gay is a […]

James A. Haught

China
The Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks?  How Russia and China could humiliate Trump on Eve of Election by Lifting Iran Arms Embargo

The Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks? How Russia and China could humiliate Trump on Eve of Election by Lifting Iran Arms Embargo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is about to go up against China and Russia at the United Nations Security Council over the looming end […]

Juan Cole

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