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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's Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS' Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Trump’s Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS’ Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is accused of soliciting the help of a foreign government to dig dirt on, essentially to do opposition research […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Dry Impeachment alone won't Save our Democracy: The Public has to Get Fired Up

Dry Impeachment alone won’t Save our Democracy: The Public has to Get Fired Up

Congress is officially moving toward impeaching the president. But even then, it’s up to the people to keep our republic.

Yes! Magazine

Donald Trump
Trump’s Assault on the Constitution: Politics as World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Trump’s Assault on the Constitution: Politics as World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

(Otherwords.org ) -Either our system is going to break, or Trump’s finally going to fail. It’s an exhausting drama. Does Trump understand democracy? I’m really […]

Jill Richardson

Education
Trump v. Duke U.-UNC:  Why the Study of Cultures is Essential to our National Security

Trump v. Duke U.-UNC: Why the Study of Cultures is Essential to our National Security

By Nicholas Tampio | After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a commission formed to figure out why the attacks occurred. One of the culprits, […]

The Conversation

Israel
As Israel struggles to form a Government, why do its poorest immigrants vote for the right and far right?

As Israel struggles to form a Government, why do its poorest immigrants vote for the right and far right?

By Amandine Desille | – The Israeli election was held on September 17, but it remains unclear who – Benyamin Netanyahu (Likud) or his main […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Anti-Palestinianism is the modern day McCarthyism

Anti-Palestinianism is the modern day McCarthyism

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights […]

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race

Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 […]

Rajan Menon

Donald Trump
Pompeo, Complicit in Ukraine Call, hides behind the State Department he Persecuted in Benghazi Conspiracy Theory

Pompeo, Complicit in Ukraine Call, hides behind the State Department he Persecuted in Benghazi Conspiracy Theory

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Kansas oil man in the back pocket of Koch Industries and a mealy-mouthed convert […]

Juan Cole

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On Khashoggi Murder Anniversary: Trump's other Dangerous Conversations besides Ukraine, with Saudi Bin Salman

On Khashoggi Murder Anniversary: Trump’s other Dangerous Conversations besides Ukraine, with Saudi Bin Salman

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN reports that, in addition to Trump’s Ukraine conversation last July, the transcripts of his telephone calls with Saudi crown […]

Juan Cole

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