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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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‘Slowbalization’: Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane?

‘Slowbalization’: Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Some economists worry the world has passed “peak globalization.” But that could be good for the planet. By John […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Bernie Sanders: Criticizing the Israeli Gov't is not anti-Semitic & Palestinians Deserve Rights

Bernie Sanders: Criticizing the Israeli Gov’t is not anti-Semitic & Palestinians Deserve Rights

US Democratic candidate and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has said that criticising Israeli government policy is not anti-Semitic. Speaking at a town hall meeting in […]

Middle East Monitor

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"World-Wide Welcome:" No, Cuccinelli, the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus Poem are not about Whiteness

“World-Wide Welcome:” No, Cuccinelli, the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus Poem are not about Whiteness

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chris Cillizza at CNN quotes the interchange between Erin Burnett and Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
In Wars and Weapons We Trust: America’s Militarized Profession of Faith

In Wars and Weapons We Trust: America’s Militarized Profession of Faith

(Tomdispatch.com ) – When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I looked to the heavens: to God and Christianity (as arbitrated by the Catholic […]

William J. Astore

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Saudi Woman dissident Refuses to Make Video exonerating Saudi State from Torture Charges

Saudi Woman dissident Refuses to Make Video exonerating Saudi State from Torture Charges

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The family of jailed Saudi dissident and women’s rights activist Loujain Hathloul has announced that the Saudi authorities offered to […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Globally and in El Paso, Far-Right Language is Changing, Provoking More Violence

Globally and in El Paso, Far-Right Language is Changing, Provoking More Violence

By Arie Perliger | – The recent shooting attack in which a young white man is accused of killing 22 people in a Walmart in […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel trying to Solve its Gaza Problem with Egyptian Territory?

Is Israel trying to Solve its Gaza Problem with Egyptian Territory?

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – There has been an increase recently in Israeli projects seeking solutions to what it calls the “Gaza […]

Middle East Monitor

Yemen
Yemen's Southern Separatists Seeking International Recognition

Yemen’s Southern Separatists Seeking International Recognition

(Al-Bab.com | – Last Thursday Yemen’s southern separatists sent a letter to the UN Security Council and to the foreign ministers of all EU member […]

Brian Whitaker

Donald Trump
Trump's Conspiracy Theories Hide the Real Plot, of Corporations against our Health

Trump’s Conspiracy Theories Hide the Real Plot, of Corporations against our Health

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump came to power in part because of weird conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, and he is still at it. […]

Juan Cole

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