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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

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

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International Pressure on Israel averted Widespread Gaza Famine this Summer, but the Danger is Back: RI

International Pressure on Israel averted Widespread Gaza Famine this Summer, but the Danger is Back: RI

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Refugees International has issued a new report about hunger in Gaza. The authors say, “Contrary to the official Israeli pushback, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Time to End Business as Usual in Unlawful West Bank Settlements

Time to End Business as Usual in Unlawful West Bank Settlements

By Bill Van Esveld Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – The United Nations’ core human rights agency is mandated […]

Human Rights Watch

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Springfield Native: Vance’s Nazi Lie about Haitians Summoned  Nazis to March in our Streets

Springfield Native: Vance’s Nazi Lie about Haitians Summoned Nazis to March in our Streets

By David DeWitt | – (Ohio Capital Journal ) – Sometimes the disgusting sewer of presidential year politics hits a little too close to home, […]

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Eugene Rogan’s The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Eugene Rogan’s The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Review of Eugene Rogan, “The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (New York: Basic Books, 2024). Munich, Germany […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Protesting Israel’s targeted destruction of all Schools and Universities in Gaza

Protesting Israel’s targeted destruction of all Schools and Universities in Gaza

Middle East Studies Association Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | – Dear President Biden, Vice-President Harris, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

( Otherwords.org ) – When my dad moved to southwest Ohio in the early 1970s, the Dayton-Springfield area’s second city was home to over 80,000 […]

Peter Certo

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Woman, Life, Freedom:  Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur

Woman, Life, Freedom: Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A few days before the invasion of Iraq by American forces under G.W.  Bush, on March 16, […]

Fariba Amini

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Sudan is Burning and Foreign Powers are Benefiting – what’s in it for the United Arab Emirates?

Sudan is Burning and Foreign Powers are Benefiting – what’s in it for the United Arab Emirates?

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham | – (The Conversation) – The United Nations has accused foreign players of prolonging the war in Sudan, making […]

The Conversation

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The Armageddon Agenda:  Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Nuclear Threat

The Armageddon Agenda: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Nuclear Threat

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have […]

Michael T. Klare

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