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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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Trump's SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred

Trump’s SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Billionaire bigot Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary Saturday with about 32.5 percent of the […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Trumpism & Europe's Refugees: Poland says it cannot coexist ‘with Middle East people’

Trumpism & Europe’s Refugees: Poland says it cannot coexist ‘with Middle East people’

By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EurActiv.com) A dispute over how to shelter 160,000 refugees in Europe got deeper today when Poland said its population is […]

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Afghanistan
As ISIL goes Global, Will the 'War on Terror' extend for Decades?

As ISIL goes Global, Will the ‘War on Terror’ extend for Decades?

By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – The war against ISIL has seen 18 months of of airstrikes by United States-led coalition forces […]

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African-Americans
Black, Brown and Progressive: A New Voter Majority in the US?

Black, Brown and Progressive: A New Voter Majority in the US?

By Sonali Kolhatkar | ( TeleSur With the US becoming more racially diverse, left-leaning people of color in alliance with their white counterparts means that […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Palestinian Women's unemployment reaches "astronomical" levels as Israeli siege Continues

Gaza: Palestinian Women’s unemployment reaches “astronomical” levels as Israeli siege Continues

Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — The unemployment among women in the Gaza Strip has reached more than 60 percent, a women’s […]

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Will Syrian Kurds defeat ISIL , helping Democrats win White House in 2016?

Will Syrian Kurds defeat ISIL , helping Democrats win White House in 2016?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bad news came out of Syria for Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) on two fronts Friday: Aleppo and, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Strongest Tropical Storm ever in S. Hemisphere Hits Fiji (It's Getting Hot in Here)

Strongest Tropical Storm ever in S. Hemisphere Hits Fiji (It’s Getting Hot in Here)

Breaking News | (Video, Twitter report) | – – Cyclone Winston: Incredible conditions in Savusavu, Fiji | 20 02 2016 Winston now strongest tropical cyclone […]

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Climate Change
Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars

Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars

Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ana Kasparian & Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “This is the election where we’re finally focusing […]

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censorship
Iran:  Poet of Gender Discrimination flees Lashes, 11.5 Year Sentence

Iran: Poet of Gender Discrimination flees Lashes, 11.5 Year Sentence

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | – – To get her first book of poetry past the Iranian censor, Fatemeh Ekhtesari did what […]

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