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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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Combatting the Climate Emergency: The Chinese Path or the Green New Deal?

Combatting the Climate Emergency: The Chinese Path or the Green New Deal?

(Tomdispatch.com ) – At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for […]

John Feffer

Iran
Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran (Bacevich, Cole, Esposito et al.)

Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran (Bacevich, Cole, Esposito et al.)

Via NIAC: July 30, 2019 As foreign-policy practitioners with decades of collective experience in national security and diplomacy, we write to warn that U.S.-Iran tensions […]

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Climate Change
The Climate Emergency comes for the Democrats

The Climate Emergency comes for the Democrats

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite the reluctance of corporate America, its cable news channels and its favorite candidates to tackle the looming menace of […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Russian Twitter trolls stoke anti-Immigrant & anti-Muslim lies, and not Just in US

Russian Twitter trolls stoke anti-Immigrant & anti-Muslim lies, and not Just in US

By Ahmed Al-Rawi and Yasmin Jiwani | – Russian troll activity on Twitter aimed at influencing public opinion has attracted a lot of attention in […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Summons 5-year-old for Police Interrogation

Israel Summons 5-year-old for Police Interrogation

Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by the Israeli police to be interrogated; the summons was handed to his family in occupied Jerusalem, who had to […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Climate denial: Donald Trump mimics criminal behaviour when justifying his stance

Climate denial: Donald Trump mimics criminal behaviour when justifying his stance

By Ruth McKie | – While much of the world now recognises the need for immediate action, there are still those who question the scientific […]

The Conversation

Solar Energy
Saving the Planet: Can Global Solar Power be Crowd-Funded? Germany's "Green Energy Valley"

Saving the Planet: Can Global Solar Power be Crowd-Funded? Germany’s “Green Energy Valley”

By Freja Eriksen | – German start-up Ecoligo has created a crowd investment structure to encourage the expansion of solar power in developing countries, writes […]

Clean Energy Wire

Donald Trump
Why Trump let Saudi Arabia and UAE censor his "America First" Speech on Energy

Why Trump let Saudi Arabia and UAE censor his “America First” Speech on Energy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Sunday the NYT revealed that Trump’s staff ran his May, 2016 speech on “America First” by Saudi Arabia and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As the Far Right goes Global, so do Bills trying to Outlaw boycott of Israel

As the Far Right goes Global, so do Bills trying to Outlaw boycott of Israel

By Rachel Hodes | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – An increasingly global campaign to tar the BDS movement as “anti-Semitic” comes as Israel’s staunchest […]

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