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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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Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

By: Anna Kokko | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – ANATA (Ma’an) — In the northeastern corner of the Palestinian village of Anata, between the […]

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Israel
Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network

Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network

By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC News ) As Israeli investigators release their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and […]

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Barack Obama
Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump

Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump

By Juan Cole – (Informed Comment) – It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about […]

Juan Cole

Counter-Terrorism
Turkey's AKP strikes back: the Politics of attacking both KurdS & ISIL

Turkey’s AKP strikes back: the Politics of attacking both KurdS & ISIL

By Tristan Dunning – (The Conversation) – – Tristan Dunning, The University of Queensland Stemming from a presumed Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing killing 32 […]

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Domestic Terrorism
America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State

America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State

By Karen J. Greenberg – Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through […]

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Iraq
It’s Dictatorship & Sectarianism, Stupid! – Rethinking the war on Daesh/ ISIL

It’s Dictatorship & Sectarianism, Stupid! – Rethinking the war on Daesh/ ISIL

By: Ramzy Baroud – (Ma’an News Agency) – – As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps, the so-called […]

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Featured
Another Bush Legacy in Iraq: Barzani asks PKK to Leave

Another Bush Legacy in Iraq: Barzani asks PKK to Leave

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Sunday morning, Kurdish separatist guerrillas launched a suicide-bombing strike on Turkish forces in Angri province, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
World already halfway to Climate Point of No Return

World already halfway to Climate Point of No Return

The Tree | – – The world may already have warmed more than halfway to the limit governments have agreed to contain warming to, according […]

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Iran
Can the Iran Deal be defeated by Rhetoric likening it to the Holocaust?

Can the Iran Deal be defeated by Rhetoric likening it to the Holocaust?

by SHALOM GOLDMAN for ISLAMiCommentary Opinion polls and election results indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rhetoric — which compares the Islamic republic of Iran […]

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