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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

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What, or who, Explains Spike in Hate Crimes against US Muslims?

What, or who, Explains Spike in Hate Crimes against US Muslims?

By Brian Levin | (The Conversation) | – – Hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise. The murder of two samaritans for aiding […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Yemen:  Saudi-led Airstrikes kill 28 civilian refugees

Yemen: Saudi-led Airstrikes kill 28 civilian refugees

TeleSur | – – Yemen has been ravaged by the ongoing war, which has claimed more than 10,000 people and caused a cholera outbreak among […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Protest: Religious leaders call on Jerusalem Palestinians to pray at Al-Aqsa on Friday

Protest: Religious leaders call on Jerusalem Palestinians to pray at Al-Aqsa on Friday

Ma`an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Members of the Waqf, or Islamic trust, in charge with running Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, called on […]

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Saudi, slamming Qatar for Extremism, arrests Model for wearing Skirt in Public

Saudi, slamming Qatar for Extremism, arrests Model for wearing Skirt in Public

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The intrepid Yaroslav Trofimov of WSJ said it all: Good luck to the Saudi PR campaign […]

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Authoritarianism
One Year Later: Why the Purges in Turkey Were Always in the Pipeline

One Year Later: Why the Purges in Turkey Were Always in the Pipeline

By Sarphan Uzunoglu. | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – When it comes to Turkey, representatives of European Union countries—aided and abetted by Turkish liberals […]

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Far Right
Unable To Kill Obamacare, Republicans Plot To Kill Medicare (TYT Video)

Unable To Kill Obamacare, Republicans Plot To Kill Medicare (TYT Video)

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Republicans want to privatize, cut, and eventually kill Medicare. Cenk Uygur, host of The […]

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Climate Change
Donald Trump and the Invisible Monster of Climate Change

Donald Trump and the Invisible Monster of Climate Change

John Feffer. | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Once upon a time, long, long ago, I testified before the great assembly of our land. […]

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Donald Trump
Unpopular: Trump's low Polls one reason for Healthcare Defeat

Unpopular: Trump’s low Polls one reason for Healthcare Defeat

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – For now, the second GOP attempt to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare has failed, with two more […]

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Authoritarianism
The Dangerous Unreality of Trumpland rests on a Totalitarian Foundation

The Dangerous Unreality of Trumpland rests on a Totalitarian Foundation

By Dan Dinello | (Informed Comment) | – – Like the Black Lodge in David Lynch’s revival of Twin Peaks, reality is twisted into strange, […]

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