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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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Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?

Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?

By James Sweeney | (The Conversation) | – – Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel must hold killers of Reporter Yaser Murtaja in its own Military to account: CPJ

Israel must hold killers of Reporter Yaser Murtaja in its own Military to account: CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists | – – Beirut–The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned comments by Israel’s defense minister over the weekend that appear to […]

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Pentagon
Top 5 Lessons from the History of America’s Defeats

Top 5 Lessons from the History of America’s Defeats

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington’s present cast of characters, a […]

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Featured
Why Trump can't reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta & why Iran is Gloating

Why Trump can’t reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta & why Iran is Gloating

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Trump administration and the May government in the UK seem poised to launch missile strikes […]

Juan Cole

Plutocracy
Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled

Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Having successfully rammed through tax legislation that massively rewards America’s billionaires—including his long-time […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Trump, World Leaders outraged by Syria's Douma but ignore Children of Gaza & Yemen

Trump, World Leaders outraged by Syria’s Douma but ignore Children of Gaza & Yemen

By Amelia Smith @amyinthedesert | (Middle East Monitor) | – – In the aftermath of the chemical weapons assault that suffocated to death over 80 […]

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Climate Change
Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

TeleSur | – – The findings imply that models used to project global warming scenarios had likely underestimated the contribution of a weakening AMOC, said […]

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Democratic Party
Protests won't stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

Protests won’t stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The broad hints Trump gave Monday that the search of his personal attorney’s offices on a […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first […]

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