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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
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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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African-Americans
GOP Figures used racist Ape imagery for Obama before North Korea did

GOP Figures used racist Ape imagery for Obama before North Korea did

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment)– North Korea lashed out at President Barack Obama on Saturday, blaming him for the Sony film, “The Interview,” and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Senior Kurdish Politician:  Kirkuk is ours; if Arabs & Turkmen want it, let them fight ISIL for it as we do

Senior Kurdish Politician: Kirkuk is ours; if Arabs & Turkmen want it, let them fight ISIL for it as we do

Shalaw Mohammed | Sulaymaniyah | (Niqash.org) Senior Iraqi Kurdish politician Mullah Bakhtiar discusses his party’s relationship with Iran and with Kurdish parties in Syria – […]

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Nawaz Sharif
Pakistan: Judge orders arrest of cleric accused of refusing to condemn Taliban Massacre at School

Pakistan: Judge orders arrest of cleric accused of refusing to condemn Taliban Massacre at School

Reuters | — “A judge orders the arrest of a senior Pakistan cleric accused of refusing to condemn the school massacre in Peshawar. Paul Chapman […]

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Dissent
Schoolboy arrested for insulting Turkish president released

Schoolboy arrested for insulting Turkish president released

Euronews | — “A Turkish teenager who was arrested at his school on Wednesday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been released from […]

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Israel
Haniyeh: Hamas committed to ceasefire as long as Israel observes It Too

Haniyeh: Hamas committed to ceasefire as long as Israel observes It Too

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Deputy head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that the group is committed to the ceasefire with […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Baathist Riposte:  How the Regime Came back in the Syrian Civil War in 2014

Baathist Riposte: How the Regime Came back in the Syrian Civil War in 2014

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — In the course of 2014, two major trends, long since visible in the Syrian civil war, were strengthened. […]

Juan Cole

Christians
You'll Never Guess where Santa Claus was really from

You’ll Never Guess where Santa Claus was really from

BBC News | — “Although widely thought to hail from the North Pole, Santa Claus is in fact originally from Turkey. The BBC’s Mark Lowen […]

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African-Americans
Illusions of Whiteness:  Millions of Southern 'Whites' have African Ancestry

Illusions of Whiteness: Millions of Southern ‘Whites’ have African Ancestry

TheLipTV | — “Six million White Americans have some African ancestry, according to a new study, which looked at the genetic records of 145,000 people, […]

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Apartheid
Israeli Occupation military demolishes dairy factory in Hebron, Palestinian West Bank

Israeli Occupation military demolishes dairy factory in Hebron, Palestinian West Bank

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed a dairy factory in the Hebron village of al-Burj, the owner told Ma’an. Yasser Muhammad Salim Masharqa […]

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