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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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Brexit decides Tesla to Open Gigafactory in Germany in Win for E-Mobility

Brexit decides Tesla to Open Gigafactory in Germany in Win for E-Mobility

By Sören Amelang | – Tesla’s announcement to build a “gigafactory” for e-car production in Germany is likely to speed up the slow shift to […]

Clean Energy Wire

Archaeology
Did Ancient Iraq’s Huge Assyrian Empire Rise and Fall on Climate Change?

Did Ancient Iraq’s Huge Assyrian Empire Rise and Fall on Climate Change?

By Ashish Sinha and Gayatri Kathayat | – Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control […]

The Conversation

Islam
Jazz Legend Talib Dawud: Be-Bop and Islam's "Elevation of the Mind"

Jazz Legend Talib Dawud: Be-Bop and Islam’s “Elevation of the Mind”

(Informed Comment) – Jazz Trumpeter Talib Dawud, whose given name was Alfonso Nelson Rainey, was one of the early American jazz converts to Ahmadiyya Islam. […]

Shalom Goldman

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European Court of Justice rules Israeli Squatter Products from Stolen Palestinian Lands must be Labeled

European Court of Justice rules Israeli Squatter Products from Stolen Palestinian Lands must be Labeled

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Associated Press reports that the European Court of Justice has ruled that goods produced in the West Bank by […]

Juan Cole

US Foreign Policy
Foreign Powers are Buying American Policy and it is all Perfectly Legal

Foreign Powers are Buying American Policy and it is all Perfectly Legal

By Ben Freeman | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Foreign influence in America is the topic du jour. From the impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s request that […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
How the Trump Administration has Made Iranian Nuclear Enrichment only Rational

How the Trump Administration has Made Iranian Nuclear Enrichment only Rational

By Akan Malici (Informed Comment) – It would be rational for Iran to pursue a nuclear bomb. Ironically, the U.S. has long been compelling it […]

Akan Malici

Climate Crisis
Since Trump Dumped the Paris Climate Agreement, is it Game Over?

Since Trump Dumped the Paris Climate Agreement, is it Game Over?

By Henrik Selin | – Editor’s note: On Nov. 4, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it planned to withdraw the U.S. […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
"Catastrophic" Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia as Gov't Backs Coal

“Catastrophic” Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia as Gov’t Backs Coal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australians in New South Wales and part of Queensland face “catastrophic” wildfires today according to government authorities. Based on the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iraq Protests Heat Up Long-Standing Rivalry Between Iraqi And Iranian Shiite Religious Leaders

Iraq Protests Heat Up Long-Standing Rivalry Between Iraqi And Iranian Shiite Religious Leaders

By Elias Thomas | – ( Niqash.org) – Behind the scenes of Iraq’s demonstrations, a decades-old rivalry between two centres of religious learning and authority, […]

Niqash

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