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

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

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

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Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Ironically, Ambassador Haley has a great deal in common with the Palestinians she despises

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Everything you Always wanted to Know about Palestine and were afraid to Ask (Noura Erekat CBS Video Interview)

Everything you Always wanted to Know about Palestine and were afraid to Ask (Noura Erekat CBS Video Interview)

Noura Erakat discusses the Palestinian reaction to the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem

Noura Erekat

Israel/ Palestine
Stop telling Palestinians to be 'resilient' – the rest of the world has failed them

Stop telling Palestinians to be ‘resilient’ – the rest of the world has failed them

The “resilience” agenda is disingenuous on a number of levels

Brendan Ciaran Browne

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Can Palestinians be Killed?  Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

British newspapers of the colonial era also called the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre “the Amritsar Riot”

Juan Cole

Iraq
Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq looks nothing like the American puppet state Neoconservatives had dreamed of

Sarah Benhaida

Gaza
Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700

Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700

Six of the slain were minors under 18, including one girl

Maan News Agency

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The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews  from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was made completely devoid of Jews, at least by law

Juan Cole

Torture
The CIA and The Banality of Haspel

The CIA and The Banality of Haspel

It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA– and that’s why she’s a terrible choice

John Feffer

Iran
Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

Iran’s foreign minister was in Moscow on Monday as Russia tries to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive in the wake of Washington’s pull-out

AFP

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