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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

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California's Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here's What You Need to Know

California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here’s What You Need to Know

By Abrahm Lustgarten, Lauren Kirchner and Amanda Zamora | (ProPublica) | — Why do I keep hearing about the California drought, if it’s the Colorado […]

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Human Rights
Daesh/ ISIL Marked Women and Children for Death in Syria's Kobani

Daesh/ ISIL Marked Women and Children for Death in Syria’s Kobani

Human Rights Watch | (New York) — Armed militants believed to be members of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, deliberately targeted people they knew […]

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Apartheid
Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements

Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements

By IMEMC | – – “Land confiscated from Palestinians for the purpose of security buffer zones around illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank is […]

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Banking
Is Greece's "No" on Debt Referendum another Youth Revolution?

Is Greece’s “No” on Debt Referendum another Youth Revolution?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – During the past 5 years, the old categories of politics– left, right, center or capitalist and […]

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Climate Change
To fight Climate Change, we have to Eat Fewer Hamburgers

To fight Climate Change, we have to Eat Fewer Hamburgers

By Dora Marinova and Talia Raphaely | (The Conversation) | – – Climate change is the greatest challenge to human health, according to the recent […]

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Children
Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis

Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis

By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2015 (IPS) – In a conflict that has claimed over 220,000 lives and injured a further 840,000 people […]

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Cold War
Iran’s Nuclear Program was A Child Of Washington in the First Place

Iran’s Nuclear Program was A Child Of Washington in the First Place

By Tony Wesolowsky | (RFE/RL) | – – The start of Iran’s nuclear program can arguably be pegged to December 8, 1953. It was on […]

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Barack Obama
Ghosts of King George III:  Top 5 Things that threaten American Independence Today

Ghosts of King George III: Top 5 Things that threaten American Independence Today

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The things that irked the residents of the Thirteen Colonies about British rule have reemerged from […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Yemen Is Starving, and We’re Partly to Blame

Yemen Is Starving, and We’re Partly to Blame

By Chris Toensing | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – 80 percent of people in the Arab world’s poorest country are in danger of […]

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