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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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The End of Press Freedom in Turkey?

The End of Press Freedom in Turkey?

By Joris Leverink | (Inter Press Service) | – – ANKARA, Turkey (IPS) – Days after the 1 November general elections in Turkey, Beyza Kural, […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Putin: Turkey was protecting ISIL oil Smuggling;  Russia urges Assad-Kurdish Alliance

Putin: Turkey was protecting ISIL oil Smuggling; Russia urges Assad-Kurdish Alliance

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in Paris that his government had intelligence that the reason […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Snowden restores 4th Amendment: NSA halts mass Warrantless spying on your Telephone Records

Snowden restores 4th Amendment: NSA halts mass Warrantless spying on your Telephone Records

By David Greene and Nadia Kayyali | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The NSA’s collection en masse of the call detail records of […]

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France
ISIL/ Daesh exults at our loss of Liberties:  "8 Men caused a nationwide state of emergency"

ISIL/ Daesh exults at our loss of Liberties: “8 Men caused a nationwide state of emergency”

by Charles Kurzman | ISLAMiCommentary Two years ago, al-Qaeda’s Iraqi franchise took Raqqa, Syria, from al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, and was promptly kicked out of al-Qaeda. […]

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Dissent
Shooting of pro-Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Deepens Turkey's Political Crisis

Shooting of pro-Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Deepens Turkey’s Political Crisis

GlobalVoices.org | – – On November 28, Tahir Elçi, one of Turkey's most prominent pro-Kurdish lawyers, was holding a press conference close to the very […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Two Israelis Found Guilty of Burning Alive Palestinian Teen

Two Israelis Found Guilty of Burning Alive Palestinian Teen

By IMEMC | – – The Jerusalem District Court, on Monday, convicted two of the three people accused in the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. […]

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censorship
Turkey's Coup against Press, own Generals over Arms Supplies to Syrian Militants

Turkey’s Coup against Press, own Generals over Arms Supplies to Syrian Militants

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey has jailed two very prominent journalists for publishing video last May of a January, 2014, […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
What does ISIL/ Daesh actually want?

What does ISIL/ Daesh actually want?

By Amalendu Misra | (the Conversation) | – – Every religious community, at some point in its history, has harboured a vision of the apocalypse. […]

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The GOP Race as America's Hunger Games

The GOP Race as America’s Hunger Games

Nomi Prins | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Fact: too many Republican candidates are clogging the political scene. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games […]

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