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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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Jerusalem: Ultra-Right Israelis again invade Aqsa Mosque compound; UN condemns provocation

Jerusalem: Ultra-Right Israelis again invade Aqsa Mosque compound; UN condemns provocation

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Right-wing Israelis broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday for the second day in a […]

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Top Six Signs ISIL/ Daesh is Doomed

Top Six Signs ISIL/ Daesh is Doomed

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has been over a year since Mosul fell to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). In some ways […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
Trying to out-Trump Trump, Huckabee goes all Holocaust on Obama's Iran Deal

Trying to out-Trump Trump, Huckabee goes all Holocaust on Obama’s Iran Deal

CBSN | (Video News Report) | “After weeks of controversial remarks, GOP primary candidate Donald Trump is still leading in the polls while other candidates […]

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Pollution
Syria Civil War leaves Civilians with Water Cut-offs, Raw Sewage in Rivers

Syria Civil War leaves Civilians with Water Cut-offs, Raw Sewage in Rivers

By Kanya D’Almeida | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Caught in the grips of a summer heat-wave, in a season […]

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Human Rights
Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound

Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound Sunday morning firing stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Muslim worshipers as they cleared […]

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Turkey's new "war on terror" mainly targeting Kurds

Turkey’s new “war on terror” mainly targeting Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What was at first announced as a new Turkish turn toward attacks on Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) […]

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Democratic Party
Is this how the Establishment takes down Outsiders like Bernie Sanders?

Is this how the Establishment takes down Outsiders like Bernie Sanders?

Thom Hartmann | (Video report) | – – “Thom Hartmann shares about media coverage of a new Quinnipiac poll, but the coverage leaves out some […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change Dunnit:  The Case of the missing Woolly Mammoths

Climate Change Dunnit: The Case of the missing Woolly Mammoths

By Chris Turney and Alan Cooper | (The Conversation) | – – Imagine a world populated by woolly mammoths, giant sloths and car-sized armadillos – […]

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Iran
Iraqis Divided on Iran Deal: Sunnis say, “The US sold us to Iran”

Iraqis Divided on Iran Deal: Sunnis say, “The US sold us to Iran”

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – While the rest of the world debates the merits of the Iranian nuclear deal, Iraqis are […]

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