Ironically, Trump may end up accelerating the transition to green energy that his administration has been so intent on stopping.

Halt to Iran attacks means Netanyahu's corruption trial will resume on Sunday - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez posted on X that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “contempt for life and international law is intolerable.”

Campuses brutally crushed protests in 2023 and 2024. They embraced the arrest and deportation of their own students, adopted unsparing policies of expulsion and made clear that the First Amendment didn't apply. It's not a mystery why unarmed, powerless teenagers aren't risking their futures.

Beirut hasn’t seen much violence in a single day since the August four blast in 2020

What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay http://dlvr.it/TRy2rM

Going green after Strait shock - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay http://dlvr.it/TRy2qw

Permanently.

Gulf expected Egypt to Protect it from Iran; It Didn’t

Israel Revives Plan to Occupy or Annex South Lebanon

Hormuz Energy Shock Spurs Europe toward Renewables

Egypt isn't riding to the rescue - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay http://dlvr.it/TRy2bq

Hormuz Energy Shock Spurs Europe toward Renewables

Israel Revives Plan to Occupy or Annex South Lebanon

Gulf expected Egypt to Protect it from Iran; It Didn’t

What is the message that Mawlana #Rumi has to offer us today, here and now, in the very midst of the American-Israeli war on #Iran, #Lebanon, #Palestine, & surrounding countries? "Light your lamp. One lit lamp is better than a thousand lightless ones." www.youtube.com/shorts/GdgIa...

When I first lived in Lebanon in 1974 I took a taxi to see a friend and told him the address. He asked, "But what is it near?"

Solar push helps Pakistan temper Gulf energy shock. Across the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, rooftops are dotted with solar panels, a sign of the country's widespread adoption of the renewable energy source, which analysts say has cushioned it from the full impact of the Middle East war

our future

"The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that over a million people have been displaced since early March — approximately 20 percent of people in Lebanon."

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

That, and how Iran - despite the terrible losses it suffered - has actually gained leverage b/c of the war. Strong work, guys. Not the main thing obv, but Cole's description of the US Sec of War deserves to be highlighted: "Whiskey Pete..., the secretary of weird tattoos and loud boasting."

Cole: Iran's govt "had just committed a massacre of thousands of protesters and was without a friend in the world. Trump and Netanyahu committed breathtaking war crimes and acted...so monstrously that many countries ended up at least rhetorically supporting Iran, or... opposing the war on it."

So many important points in this must read by @jricole.bsky.social. Like hammer strokes, the piece lays out the demonstrable facts of this whole fiasco and thus leaves no doubt about its argument.

Aftermath of the Israeli airstrike on Barbour, Beirut moments ago

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

Holy fucking shit it's real lol Olivia Reingold of the Free Press asks Abdul El-Sayed "does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?" AES: "What do you mean by a Jewish state?" [...] "If you can't define the question, I'm not gonna answer it.

The Strait of Hormuz is an intermittent energy source. It cannot deliver the baseload we need!

mutual aid is helping the displaced- search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay http://dlvr.it/TRx1vj

How to start a fight and still get good press - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay http://dlvr.it/TRx1k3

How the other side won - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay http://dlvr.it/TRx0gB

The picture here says it all. Many of us are more than grateful to Averil Cameron for all she helped us with, Here's a review of her autobiography tinyurl.com/3bx2p47x

⁠🇵🇰 ​Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz ​Sharif's ​said on Wednesday that #Islamabad would host delegations from the #US and #Iran later this week. FRANCE 24's Shahzaib Wahlah has the latest ⤵️

Huge quantities of fertilizers/components come through the Strait (~1/3 of world supply). Ukraine has been targeting Russian fertilizer plants b/c they can be used to make weapons. But I don't expect this guy to understand what increased fertilizer prices & shortages mean for farmers & food supply.

“Ceasefire“

Great news for election security.

How will #Iran respond to Israel undertaking largest simultaneous attacks on Lebanon of the war - about 100 strikes in 10 minutes - on what is supposedly 1st day of a ceasefire that Pakistan said includes #Lebanon? Tehran had warned that ceasefire = Lebanon too or deal is off ⬇️

I hope your loved ones are safe, Lina. I’m so so sorry 💔

The American University of Beirut Medical Center, the main hospital in the area, is asking for blood donations of all blood types. The hospital is in emergency mode. Friends whose relatives are doctors there say they are all overwhelmed with patients

Megaphone.news did a quick report on the Israeli strikes on Lebanon so far. These are just some of them.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

How Trump Manipulated the Media for his War

Mutual aid a Lifeline for the million people Israel Displaced in Lebanon