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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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Nelson Mandela's Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle

Nelson Mandela’s Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement […]

Middle East Monitor

Inequality
We Know Exactly Where to Get the Money to Fix Inequality

We Know Exactly Where to Get the Money to Fix Inequality

By Jim Hightower | – (Otherwords) – Jesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to […]

Jim Hightower

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis Stress is already Killing Us: this Chaos Map shows Where

Climate Crisis Stress is already Killing Us: this Chaos Map shows Where

By Aled Jones, Davide Natalini,Anglia Ruskin, and Imelda Phadtare | – Over 12 days at the start of October 2019 eight people were killed, more […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Iran seeks to Take advantage of Trump's Exit from Syria to become Diplomatic Power Broker

Iran seeks to Take advantage of Trump’s Exit from Syria to become Diplomatic Power Broker

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How has Trump’s impetuous invitation to Turkey to invade Syria and displace America’s allies against ISIL, the Syrian Kurds, issued […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?

How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?

(Inequality.org) – The hidden burden America’s top-heavy distribution of income and wealth places on people of modest means What nation ranks as the world’s richest? […]

Sam Pizzigati

Displaced and Refugees
Erdogan’s Plan to Resettle Arabs in Syrian Kurdish Zone is dangerous and expensive

Erdogan’s Plan to Resettle Arabs in Syrian Kurdish Zone is dangerous and expensive

By Stasa Salacanin | – Although the Turkish offensive in north-east Syria has ceased for five days, concerns are mounting over the humanitarian impact of […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
New War for Oil? Trump to Occupy Oil-Rich Syrian Province with Tank Corps, Asks for Kurdish Displacement There

New War for Oil? Trump to Occupy Oil-Rich Syrian Province with Tank Corps, Asks for Kurdish Displacement There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump said he talked to Syrian Democratic Forces leader Gen. Mazloum Abdi on Thursday. As usual, Trump’s report of the […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Killing Me Softly with Militarism: The Decay of Democracy in America

Killing Me Softly with Militarism: The Decay of Democracy in America

(Tomdispatch.com) – When Americans think of militarism, they may imagine jackbooted soldiers goose-stepping through the streets as flag-waving crowds exult; or, like our president, they […]

William J. Astore

Displaced and Refugees
No, Erdogan can't send most of Turkey's 3.7 mn Syrian Refugees into Kurdish Regions

No, Erdogan can’t send most of Turkey’s 3.7 mn Syrian Refugees into Kurdish Regions

By Shelley Inglis | – Turkey’s recent military incursion into northern Syria is aimed at weakening Syrian Kurdish forces along its border. Turkey believes those […]

The Conversation

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