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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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Witness to History: Early Muslim Rock Inscriptions Speak of 769 A.D. Epidemic in Medina

Witness to History: Early Muslim Rock Inscriptions Speak of 769 A.D. Epidemic in Medina

Saudi epigraphist Mohammed Almaghthawi (@mohammed93athar) has published some rock inscriptions from around Medina in western Arabia that are dated to 769, which speak of an […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Coronavirus and Georgia's Kemp:  How the GOP Stupidocracy will Kill us All

Coronavirus and Georgia’s Kemp: How the GOP Stupidocracy will Kill us All

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whose only advantage in life appears to be being a white male who has failed upward […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Despite Covid-19 Dangers, Israel ignores Pleas to Safeguard the Health of Palestinian Prisoners (Many Uncharged) in its Jails

Despite Covid-19 Dangers, Israel ignores Pleas to Safeguard the Health of Palestinian Prisoners (Many Uncharged) in its Jails

( Middle East Monitor ) – Unsurprisingly, Israel has not heeded requests to safeguard the health of Palestinian prisoners in its jails. Besides recommending “precautionary […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Germany marks first ever Quarter with more than 50 pct Renewable Electricity

Germany marks first ever Quarter with more than 50 pct Renewable Electricity

By Rachel Waldholz | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Pandemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth: Human-Caused Climate Change Impels Mass Migrations of Humans and Animals

Pandemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth: Human-Caused Climate Change Impels Mass Migrations of Humans and Animals

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As the coronavirus sweeps across the planet, leaving death and mayhem in its wake, many theories are being expounded to explain […]

Michael T. Klare

Donald Trump
Threatening Iran: Mired in Incompetence on Covid-19 at Home, Trump Tests Wagging the Dog

Threatening Iran: Mired in Incompetence on Covid-19 at Home, Trump Tests Wagging the Dog

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP quotes Trump as saying at a news conference and then on Twitter: “”We don’t want hostility, but if they […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The World Can't Afford Washington's Pet Wars and Sanctions in a Time of Plague

The World Can’t Afford Washington’s Pet Wars and Sanctions in a Time of Plague

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – During World War I, soldiers all along the Western front held a series of informal truces in December 1914 to […]

John Feffer

Banking
The US Tax System is a vast Ponzi Scheme that only Benefits the Wealthy

The US Tax System is a vast Ponzi Scheme that only Benefits the Wealthy

( Gainesville Sun ) – There are no easy answers to financing U.S. health insurance, mental health care, social services, public health and other services […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Bashar al-Assad
2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

By Ora Szekely | – Despite many attempts at negotiations, the Syrian war – a conflict with a complicated and constantly changing cast of characters […]

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