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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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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 […]

Juan Cole

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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Apartheid
Syrian Refugees Face Hunger Amidst Humanitarian Funding Crisis

Syrian Refugees Face Hunger Amidst Humanitarian Funding Crisis

By Zhai Yun Tan | (Inter Press Service) | – – WASHINGTON (IPS) – The United Nations’ food aid organisation, the World Food Programme (WFP), […]

Juan Cole

Acidification of Oceans
If World Refuses to Act on Carbon, Oceans Doomed to 'Irreversible' Damage

If World Refuses to Act on Carbon, Oceans Doomed to ‘Irreversible’ Damage

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) New study warns, ‘any new global climate agreement that does not minimize the impacts on the ocean will […]

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Civil Rights
Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July

Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised for the 2010s: Your Fourth of July is invasions and wars. My Fourth of July is […]

Juan Cole

Green Transportation
The Future of Flying:  Purely Solar-Powered Plane lands in Hawaii after taking off from Japan

The Future of Flying: Purely Solar-Powered Plane lands in Hawaii after taking off from Japan

Euronews | (Video Report) | – – “A solar powered plane has successfully completed a record-breaking five-day nonstop solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. The […]

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Corruption
Iraq's Displaced People are Selling Body Parts For Food

Iraq’s Displaced People are Selling Body Parts For Food

Niqash.org | Sulaymaniyah | – – “Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan suspect that displaced people are selling their kidneys to feed their families. Problem is, they […]

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