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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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Authoritarianism
How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – (Globalvoices.org) – In response to COVID-19, governments around the world have declared states of emergency, allowing them to take […]

Global Voices

Banking
The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

(Tomdispatch.com) – Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts […]

Nomi Prins

African-Americans
Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My social media feeds have been full of comparisons between the treatment by police of Reopener mobs, some of whom […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

( Al-Bab.com) – There used to be about ten burials a day in the cemeteries of Yemen’s second city, Aden, but since Covid-19 arrived the […]

Brian Whitaker

Israel/ Palestine
Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu's Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank--but for all the Wrong Reasons

Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu’s Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank–but for all the Wrong Reasons

By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed during the Likud meeting in the Knesset on […]

Middle East Monitor

Far Right
From Jones's Kool-Aid to Trump's Clorox-- Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

By Michael Nagler | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When I compared the president and his followers to Jim Jones and the “Peoples Temple” cult […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has apparently finally had a crisis of conscience over the sewer of falsehoods spewed by Trump […]

Juan Cole

Libya
The Turko-Russian War for Oil and Gas in Libya Intensifies

The Turko-Russian War for Oil and Gas in Libya Intensifies

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Frenemies Russia and Turkey have put their conflict in Syria on hold, but they have intensified their rivalry in […]

Nikola Mikovic

Climate Crisis
Heat the Earth more than 3.6° F. and Rain Forests will Release Hundreds of Billions of Tons of CO2

Heat the Earth more than 3.6° F. and Rain Forests will Release Hundreds of Billions of Tons of CO2

By Aida Cuní Sanchez and Martin Sullivan | – As they photosynthesise and grow, tropical forests remove enormous amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, reducing […]

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