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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

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Universities
Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Sally Kornbluth President Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . .   Dear President Kornbluth and Colleagues:   […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Democracy
Post-Election Beatitude:  Beating the Blues

Post-Election Beatitude: Beating the Blues

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hill; leader of […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

By by Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with […]

Middle East Monitor

Republican Party
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Afghanistan
How to Lose a War:  The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

( Middle East Monitor ) – The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to […]

William D. Hartung

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Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup

Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go round, […]

Juan Cole

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