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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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Palestinians are Helpless before Coronavirus, Hung out to Dry again by World Community

Palestinians are Helpless before Coronavirus, Hung out to Dry again by World Community

( Middle East Monitor ) – As Gaza tries to impede the spread of coronavirus, humanitarian aid, albeit necessary, is yet another reminder of how […]

Ramona Wadi

Authoritarianism
While Rome Burns:  With 2020 Election in Doubt Trump Gets what he's always Wanted

While Rome Burns: With 2020 Election in Doubt Trump Gets what he’s always Wanted

(Tomdispatch.com) – Last month, Donald Trump retweeted a doctored photo of himself playing the fiddle that was labeled “My next piece is called: nothing can […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
After Trump picked Feud with Shiite Nat'l Guard, Iraqi PM-designate says 1/2 US Troops will Leave Iraq this year, the Rest in '21

After Trump picked Feud with Shiite Nat’l Guard, Iraqi PM-designate says 1/2 US Troops will Leave Iraq this year, the Rest in ’21

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The current nominee to be the next prime minister of Iraq, Adnan al-Zurfi, says that He has asked the US […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
With 53,000 Covid-19 Cases, Iran Can't get Needed Medical Supplies: Trump Admin must Ease Sanctions

With 53,000 Covid-19 Cases, Iran Can’t get Needed Medical Supplies: Trump Admin must Ease Sanctions

(Washington DC) – Broad US-imposed economic sanctions are negatively affecting the Iranian government’s ability to adequately respond to the mounting health consequences of the coronavirus […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Top 7 Lessons from Israeli-Occupied Palestine on Surviving Lockdown

Top 7 Lessons from Israeli-Occupied Palestine on Surviving Lockdown

By Ramzy Baroud | @RamzyBaroud | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Sorry, Climate Change Denialists, but Coronavirus Makes Green Energy even More Urgent

Sorry, Climate Change Denialists, but Coronavirus Makes Green Energy even More Urgent

By John Hewson | Climate deniers have been hanging out for the United Nations’ next big summit to fail. In a sense, the coronavirus and […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Why America's anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual Attitudes doom it to Coronavirus "Pearl Harbor"

Why America’s anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual Attitudes doom it to Coronavirus “Pearl Harbor”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The surgeon general, Jerome Adams, has announced that the coming week will see enormous numbers of coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid, to Gaza until Remains of 2 Israeli Invaders are Returned

Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid, to Gaza until Remains of 2 Israeli Invaders are Returned

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | ( Middle East Monitor ) – In response to a humanitarian appeal launched by the Palestinian Ministry of […]

Middle East Monitor

Books
A Malignant Contagion: Trumpism's Mindlessness on Coronavirus  and Albert Camus’ 'The Plague'

A Malignant Contagion: Trumpism’s Mindlessness on Coronavirus and Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Albert Camus’ The Plague evokes the malign contagion of Trumpism — the mindless death cult that contaminates America with […]

Dan Dinello

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