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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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Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

The history of everyday public resistance on the part of women’s movements in Iran

Navid Pourmokhtari

Donald Trump
Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It turns out we need those foreigners after all, despite what Trump thinks. On Sunday British investigative journalist Iain Overton […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn't so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn’t so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – If you were asked three months ago, when news of the novel Coronavirus we now call Covid-19 was just […]

David Faris

Epidemics
Coronavirus: Corporate Media ignores how Privatization of Hospitals explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators

Coronavirus: Corporate Media ignores how Privatization of Hospitals explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The escalating total Covid 19 deaths in New York City and the frantic quest to obtain life […]

John Buell

War
Yemen still on the brink following coronavirus risks and fragile ceasefire

Yemen still on the brink following coronavirus risks and fragile ceasefire

London (Special to Informed Comment) – As Yemen’s catastrophic war enters its sixth year, the Saudi-led coalition offered a desperately needed ceasefire on Friday, which […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Climate Crisis
Wind Power surges by 20 Percent!  Why Gov't Should Put Stimulus Money into it to Help Economy and the Earth

Wind Power surges by 20 Percent! Why Gov’t Should Put Stimulus Money into it to Help Economy and the Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wind power is growing by leaps and bounds, with new installations up 20 percent in 2019. A whole 60 gigawatts […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Italy Coronavirus Deaths Pass 10,000: How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Created Europe's Worst Crisis

Italy Coronavirus Deaths Pass 10,000: How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Created Europe’s Worst Crisis

( Foreign Policy in Focus) As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Saudi Arabia
Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis

Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis

At Least 5 Detainees from al-Mahrah Illegally Transferred to Saudi Arabia

Human Rights Watch

Campaign Finance
A Civil Rights Issue: Less than 1% of Americans Provide most Money for Political Campaigns

A Civil Rights Issue: Less than 1% of Americans Provide most Money for Political Campaigns

By By Chiraag Bains | – ( Otherwords.org) – Less than 1 percent of the population provides most of America’s campaign funds. It looks nothing […]

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