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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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Authoritarianism
How the fate of Syria's al-Assad divides the GOP Field: Cruz, Trump, Rubio

How the fate of Syria’s al-Assad divides the GOP Field: Cruz, Trump, Rubio

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Foreign policy is not a strong suit for most of the Republican candidates for president. Many […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
Teen Girl Accused Of Bullying For Criticizing Israel

Teen Girl Accused Of Bullying For Criticizing Israel

Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore, Jayar Jackson, and Becca Frucht | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “A teen in New Jersey has been reprimanded […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Media Blackout on Bernie Sanders Continues even though he leads Trump in Polls

Media Blackout on Bernie Sanders Continues even though he leads Trump in Polls

By Jim Hightower | (Otherwords) | – – The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of […]

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Iran
The Saudi-Iranian crisis reveals a deep power struggle in Tehran

The Saudi-Iranian crisis reveals a deep power struggle in Tehran

By Kamran Matin | (The Conversation) | – – Ever since Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shia dissident Nimr al-Nimr was met with violent protests at […]

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Israel/ Palestine
US: Israeli Defense Minister ‘undermining’ two-state solution

US: Israeli Defense Minister ‘undermining’ two-state solution

Ma’an News Agency | – – ISRAEL (Ma’an) — The United States came down Friday on a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon to […]

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Featured
Russian Strike on al-Qaeda Lair kills 51 at Prison, as US hypocritically slams Moscow

Russian Strike on al-Qaeda Lair kills 51 at Prison, as US hypocritically slams Moscow

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian air war against al-Qaeda in Syria (the Nusra Front or the Support Front) took […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Paiute Native Tribe: Oregon Militia is Polluting our Ancestral Land

Paiute Native Tribe: Oregon Militia is Polluting our Ancestral Land

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “The armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Burns, Oregon, are being sent a message from […]

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Health
People in Lead-Poisoned Flint Still without clean Water

People in Lead-Poisoned Flint Still without clean Water

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Important Reminder in the Flint Crisis: People Still Have No Safe Water Emergency declared by […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Yemen: Coalition Drops Cluster Bombs in Capital: Indiscriminate Weapon Used in Residential Areas

Yemen: Coalition Drops Cluster Bombs in Capital: Indiscriminate Weapon Used in Residential Areas

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces airdropped cluster bombs on residential neighborhoods in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, early on January […]

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