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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

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Trump Fails again to Bring our Troops Home from Mideast:  Mulling Escalation of 14,000 v. Iran

Trump Fails again to Bring our Troops Home from Mideast: Mulling Escalation of 14,000 v. Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s Pentagon is allegedly mulling sending 14,000 US troops to the Middle East to counter Iran. Although the Pentagon pushed […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Is Iran an Expansionist Power or Just in Defensive Mode?

Is Iran an Expansionist Power or Just in Defensive Mode?

By Edward Hunt | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The Iranian military is focused on deterring external threats not launching an attack on its […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Islamophobia
Israel-Based Group is Behind Bigoted Facebook Smear Campaign Aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar

Israel-Based Group is Behind Bigoted Facebook Smear Campaign Aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar

By Eoin Higgins, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – “The goal of these anti-Muslim hate campaigns is clear—they put Muslim lives here and around the […]

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Christianity
White Anxiety and Imperial Christianity: The GOP Pathologies that Twin them with Trump

White Anxiety and Imperial Christianity: The GOP Pathologies that Twin them with Trump

(Tomdispatch.com ) – On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special […]

Rebecca Gordon

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At NATO, Trump irrelevant as France's Macron Confronts Turkey on Invasion of Syrian Kurds

At NATO, Trump irrelevant as France’s Macron Confronts Turkey on Invasion of Syrian Kurds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 70th anniversary of NATO was commemorated with a low-key meeting rather than a summit and was not the united […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis, Not Conflict, Drove Many Syrian Refugees from their Homes

Climate Crisis, Not Conflict, Drove Many Syrian Refugees from their Homes

By Hussein A. Amery | – People who fled Syria in recent years are often viewed as war refugees because of the violence that has […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention

The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention

By Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka) – Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Israeli Security Agency has been torturing Palestinians. Al-Shabaka Senior Palestine Policy Fellow […]

Al-Shabaka

Democratic Party
Voters want an Anti-War Candidate and Trump Isn't It

Voters want an Anti-War Candidate and Trump Isn’t It

By Peter Certo | – (Afterwords.org) – Hard data shows ending our wars would be smart politics — and the first step toward repairing a […]

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Donald Trump
An Illustrated Guide to the Impeachment of Donald Trump

An Illustrated Guide to the Impeachment of Donald Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a nearby place and very recently, Donald J. Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Rick Perry, Mick Mulvaney and Mike Pompeo among […]

Juan Cole

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