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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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Trump Spared Iran from Bombing, but his Sanctions Fed Pandemic in which 1 dies every 10 Minutes

Trump Spared Iran from Bombing, but his Sanctions Fed Pandemic in which 1 dies every 10 Minutes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee and Kristen Welker at NBC News report that Trump refused to bomb Iran last weekend […]

Juan Cole

China
Why Americans should stop Talking about "China Flu" and Learn some things from China

Why Americans should stop Talking about “China Flu” and Learn some things from China

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – There is an old saying that politics stops at the water’s edge. Never really true, it is […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?  International Prosecutors want to Find Out

Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan? International Prosecutors want to Find Out

By Hurst Hannum | – International prosecutors tasked with looking into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan have no shortage of potential targets. Afghan soldiers and […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises

Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises

By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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Not Giving up on Happiness:  Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, I cast a joyless vote for the very much politically doomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the […]

David Faris

Donald Trump
Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia

Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump has systematically focused on a xenophobic rebranding of COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” to help cover […]

Dan Dinello

Epidemics
Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 -- "In a few days influenza would be controlled"

Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 — “In a few days influenza would be controlled”

Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – The great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 , which raged in the aftermath of the 1914-18 World War, killed […]

Shalom Goldman

Donald Trump
Trump Admin. in "Historic" withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks

Trump Admin. in “Historic” withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP is reporting that the US military is withdrawing US troops from 3 Iraqi bases. They are al-Qa’im in the […]

Juan Cole

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