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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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Government surveillance
How the FBI is endangering everyone's Security to get at one iPhone

How the FBI is endangering everyone’s Security to get at one iPhone

By Joseph Bonneau | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running […]

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France
France: Turkish-Russian 'War' Possible over Syria

France: Turkish-Russian ‘War’ Possible over Syria

TeleSur | – – The French president said Russia and Turkey could engage in war over Turkish involvement in Syria as Russia called for an […]

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Why Trump's tiff with the Pope endangers his Political Future

Why Trump’s tiff with the Pope endangers his Political Future

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Billionaire bigot Donald Trump’s tiff with Pope Francis continued on Thursday, though Trump appears to have […]

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Islam
No, it isn’t all one Thing:  The Variety of Religious Experience in Islam

No, it isn’t all one Thing: The Variety of Religious Experience in Islam

By Aaron W. Hughes | (The Conversation) | – – The rise of Islamic State has led to much speculation about the group’s origins: how […]

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Israel
Civility?  Professor Proposes Israel “flatten” a City of 1 million

Civility? Professor Proposes Israel “flatten” a City of 1 million

By Belén Fernández | ( TeleSur ) | – – No, Israel Should Not Flatten Beirut: A debate over whether Israel should commit war crimes […]

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Denialism
Exxon-Mobil's past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones

Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones

By Bill McKibben | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
UN: Over 400 Palestinians displaced by Israel in 6 weeks

UN: Over 400 Palestinians displaced by Israel in 6 weeks

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over 400 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced due to Israeli demolitions during […]

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Syria:  500 Turkey-backed Sunni Arab Fighters Cross to defend Azaz from Kurds

Syria: 500 Turkey-backed Sunni Arab Fighters Cross to defend Azaz from Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This morning, according to the Syria Observatory and the Arabic press some 500 Sunni Arab rebels […]

Juan Cole

Terrorism
Turkey's New Normal?:  Bombing in Ankara kills Dozens

Turkey’s New Normal?: Bombing in Ankara kills Dozens

By Winston Obertan | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – Ankara. Wikimedia image. A bomb blast, believed to have originated from a car bomb, has […]

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