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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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Climate Change
Global Warming: Humans made California drought 15-20% worse by Burning Coal, Gas, Oil

Global Warming: Humans made California drought 15-20% worse by Burning Coal, Gas, Oil

By Park Williams | (The Conversation) | – – With each passing year, human-caused global warming bullies California for more water. Each year, the heat […]

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Authoritarianism
Crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan:  Attacked by ISIL & Turkey; and Now Leaderless

Crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan: Attacked by ISIL & Turkey; and Now Leaderless

Honar Hama Rasheed | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | – – As the issue of Iraqi Kurdistan’s vacant presidency heats up, delegations from the US, Turkey […]

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Authoritarianism
Huge ISIL Blast at Cairo Security Bldg. Injures 29;  Sisi Security Claims in Tatters

Huge ISIL Blast at Cairo Security Bldg. Injures 29; Sisi Security Claims in Tatters

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – An enormous explosion damaged a building housing secret police in a northern district of Cairo (Shubra […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
Israel and the BDS debate: two scholars respectfully agree to differ

Israel and the BDS debate: two scholars respectfully agree to differ

By Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis | (The Conversation) | – – From Australia, we watch Israel at a great distance, safe in the knowledge […]

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Foreign Policy
"The Iranian Threat":  Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?

“The Iranian Threat”: Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?

By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna […]

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Foreign Policy
Trump Takes on the World

Trump Takes on the World

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – It was 1972. The flamboyant rock star Alice Cooper, not quite a household name […]

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Barack Obama
No, AP, Iran doesn't get to Inspect its own Nuclear Facilities under Deal

No, AP, Iran doesn’t get to Inspect its own Nuclear Facilities under Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent Iran and security expert Gary Sick pointed out in an email late Wednesday that the […]

Juan Cole

Archaeology
Syria: Daesh/ ISIL Kills aged Archeologist who refused to reveal hidden Palmyra Antiquities

Syria: Daesh/ ISIL Kills aged Archeologist who refused to reveal hidden Palmyra Antiquities

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “ISIS beheaded 82-year-old Khaled Al-Asaad on August 18, 2015, in the 2,000-year-old city he spent his life […]

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Climate Change
To Contain Carbon Bomb, US Must End Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands

To Contain Carbon Bomb, US Must End Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Each new lease puts us farther down the path toward climate catastrophe,’ says Friends of […]

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