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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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Israel/ Palestine
The War Ahead: Netanyahu’s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel

The War Ahead: Netanyahu’s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel

( Middle East Monitor) – On September 1, the Lebanese group Hezbollah struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Change
Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and it Won't Go Well

Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and it Won’t Go Well

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I understand that the far, far rightwing reused toilet paper that is Breitbart ran a hit piece on me today […]

Juan Cole

European Union
To preserve democracy, the UK needs a mass movement both inside and outside Parliament

To preserve democracy, the UK needs a mass movement both inside and outside Parliament

By Symon Hill ( Waging Nonviolence) – Thousands of people poured onto the streets of the United Kingdom . . . to challenge Prime Minister […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Bernie Sanders after Saudi Prison Massacre in Yemen: "We are Complicit in this Nightmare"

Bernie Sanders after Saudi Prison Massacre in Yemen: “We are Complicit in this Nightmare”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi fighter-jets bombed a makeshift prison on a college campus in Dhamar, Yemen, south of the capital of Sana’a eight […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
In the Democrats' bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?

In the Democrats’ bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?

By Dennis Altman | – Conservative former congressman Joe Walsh recently announced he would challenge Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s 2020 Presidential nomination. Challenging […]

The Conversation

workers
Why You can't have Democracy without Strong Workers' Unions

Why You can’t have Democracy without Strong Workers’ Unions

By Christine Owens | – When workers don’t have a voice in their workplace, they eventually lose their voice at the ballot box, too. You […]

OtherWords

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu is risking war to boost his electoral prospects

Netanyahu is risking war to boost his electoral prospects

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – In an effort to boost his electoral prospects, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking the outbreak of […]

Middle East Monitor

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On Labor Day, US Workers are 1/3 poorer than in 2003 & Top 1% is 2x Richer

On Labor Day, US Workers are 1/3 poorer than in 2003 & Top 1% is 2x Richer

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Labor Day, American workers have little to celebrate. That’s alright. The September Labor Day, while initially proposed by some […]

Juan Cole

Investment
Trump’s Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name

Trump’s Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name

(Informed Comment) – In early 2019, the White House threatened to invade Venezuela, take down the government and replace it with their choice of president […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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