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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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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds. […]

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Far Right
Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

Contessa Brewer | (CBSN Video News Report) | – – “Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed militia that occupied a national wildlife refuge in […]

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Why Israel's Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism

Why Israel’s Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke out this week in an address to the UN Security Council […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s land grab undermines Palestinian statehood – and violates international law

Israel’s land grab undermines Palestinian statehood – and violates international law

By Amy Maguire | (The Conversation) | – – Israel is preparing to make its largest land seizure in the West Bank since August 2014. […]

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Democratic Party
6 National Security Questions the Establishment Candidates don't want to Answer

6 National Security Questions the Establishment Candidates don’t want to Answer

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com To judge by the early returns, the presidential race of 2016 is shaping up as the most disheartening […]

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History
Toward a New Islamic Golden Age through Science

Toward a New Islamic Golden Age through Science

By Nidhal Guessoum | (Project Syndicate) | – – SHARJAH – The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden […]

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Militarization
No, Donald Trump, we can't just "take their oil"

No, Donald Trump, we can’t just “take their oil”

By Emily Schwartz Greco | (Otherwords.org) | – – Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign ad pledged to “take their oil.” That’s what President (gasp) Trump […]

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Top 5 Ways Putin has won big in Syria and why Europe is embracing him

Top 5 Ways Putin has won big in Syria and why Europe is embracing him

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russia is so far winning big in Syria, and making Moscow’s projection of force in the […]

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