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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
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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

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Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib's Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib’s Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Paul Rogers | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and […]

Open Democracy

Displaced and Refugees
Top 5 Ways Syria is the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of the 21st Century

Top 5 Ways Syria is the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of the 21st Century

By Shelley Inglis | – Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous red line speech in 2012? In that speech, the president made it clear that […]

The Conversation

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Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian Airspace, Threatens to down Turkish Jets

Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian Airspace, Threatens to down Turkish Jets

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey shot down two Syrian fighter jets over Idlib province this weekend and Turkish drones and artillery took out armor […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates

Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates

By Mehmet Ozalp | – As the nine-year Syrian civil war enters its final turn, Turkey and Russia, long-time allies in Syria, are on the […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Heckuva Job, Pencie!  A US ruled for and by the Rich leaves Workers at Risk for Coronavirus

Heckuva Job, Pencie! A US ruled for and by the Rich leaves Workers at Risk for Coronavirus

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Is the United States prepared to deal with a public health emergency? At this point such an […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
Trump Spending $1.2 Trillion a year on War, with Nothing to Show for It

Trump Spending $1.2 Trillion a year on War, with Nothing to Show for It

By Mandy Smithberger | – Hold on to your helmets! It’s true the White House is reporting that its proposed new Pentagon budget is only […]

Tomdispatch

China
Maybe Try Friendship?  Hatred and Enmity are bad Politics for America and a World in Crisis

Maybe Try Friendship? Hatred and Enmity are bad Politics for America and a World in Crisis

We live in an era where animosity and even rage are the norm in the political arena. Both Democrats and Republicans are deeply divided in […]

Richard Penaskovic

Bernie Sanders
The Plutocracy Strikes Back:  CNN Compares Bernie Sanders to Coronavirus

The Plutocracy Strikes Back: CNN Compares Bernie Sanders to Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday morning CNN host Michael Smerconish compared Sen. Bernie Sanders to the coronavirus, asking if anything could stop either […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Nonviolent Noncooperation: A Palestinian Response to the Kushner/Trump Plan

Nonviolent Noncooperation: A Palestinian Response to the Kushner/Trump Plan

( Nonviolence International) – President Trump and his son-in-law’s “peace” plan would worsen the long term subjugation of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, East […]

Mubarak Awad

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