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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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Displaced and Refugees
Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

By Marwa Mohamed | – (openDemocracy.net) – Libya today is facing its greatest challenge to date. In spite of years of internal conflict, the country […]

Open Democracy

Cults
The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

By Marc-André Argentino | – Followers of the QAnon movement believe in wild and dangerous conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now a faction […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mystery deepens. Late last Friday, Trump summarily fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick. While in US law […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Workers in Israel and Coronavirus Vulnerability

Palestinian Workers in Israel and Coronavirus Vulnerability

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – The novel coronavirus pandemic, by its nature, highlights inequalities of race, class and gender in its victims. Palestine is […]

Mohammed Samaana

Donald Trump
The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus

The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus

By Lomi Kriel | – ( ProPublica) – The girls, 8 and 11, were alone in a rented room in a dangerous Mexican city bordering […]

ProPublica

Domestic Terrorism
When Leaders like Trump call for Vigilanteism, White Supremacists have through History been Happy to Oblige

When Leaders like Trump call for Vigilanteism, White Supremacists have through History been Happy to Oblige

By Shannon M. Smith | – White supremacist and militia organizations are exploiting the government’s chaotic response to the coronavirus for recruitment efforts. Whatever his […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Iran et États-Unis: l’ironie d’une curieuse affinité

Iran et États-Unis: l’ironie d’une curieuse affinité

Introduction par Tom Engelhardt 19 mai 2020. Traaduit de l’américain par Jean Granoux Nous sommes dans un moment religieux étrangement viral. Récemment encore, une Maison […]

Juan Cole

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Top 3 Ways Netanyahu's New Gov't in Israel is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen

Top 3 Ways Netanyahu’s New Gov’t in Israel is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s leaders have finally formed a government, after three elections that left the country in a political quagmire. The new […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Omar Khayyam Day (5/18) in Lockdown:  “My Diamond is your Ecstasy”

Omar Khayyam Day (5/18) in Lockdown: “My Diamond is your Ecstasy”

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain of the Day For the earliest collection of verse attributed to Omar Khayyam see my just-published The Rubaiyat of […]

Juan Cole

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