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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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Nowhere to Run: Broken Homes and Broken Lives in Gaza

Nowhere to Run: Broken Homes and Broken Lives in Gaza

By Jen Marlowe | (Tomdispatch.com) Rubble. That’s been the one constant for the Awajah family for as long as I’ve known them. Four months ago, […]

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Over 100 ISIL/Daesh Fighters Killed in US Airstrikes in Iraq; Attack on Syria Base Repelled

Over 100 ISIL/Daesh Fighters Killed in US Airstrikes in Iraq; Attack on Syria Base Repelled

By Juan Cole | — The US war on Daesh (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria takes up less and less space in the MSM. The […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Pundits Blame Eric Garner For His Own Death (TYT Medley of Shame)

Pundits Blame Eric Garner For His Own Death (TYT Medley of Shame)

Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks | — “The death of Staten Island man Eric Garner after New York police Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in […]

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Apartheid
Israeli Squatters chop down 50 Olive Trees in Palestinian Village (800,000 since 1967)

Israeli Squatters chop down 50 Olive Trees in Palestinian Village (800,000 since 1967)

NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers cut down over 50 olive trees in the Nablus village of Aqraba on Friday, Palestinian official Ghassan Daghlas said. Settlers from […]

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Climate Change
Climate change threatens Peru's glaciers as 195 Countries Meet in Lima

Climate change threatens Peru’s glaciers as 195 Countries Meet in Lima

DW | — “Delegates from 195 countries are meeting in Lima, Peru for the UN’s 20th climate change conference. The mountains of Peru offer a […]

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Iran
Iran:  Rise In Youth just living together -- Gov't rails Against 'White Marriage'

Iran: Rise In Youth just living together — Gov’t rails Against ‘White Marriage’

By Golnaz Esfandiari (RFL/RE) | — Raana and Hamed have been living together for four years. They eat together. They both contribute to the household […]

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Coal
Solar Power in US doubles in 2014, Wind now 4% of Energy Mix

Solar Power in US doubles in 2014, Wind now 4% of Energy Mix

By Juan Cole | — Compared to Germany and Spain, the United States is woefully backward in its development of wind, solar and other renewable […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Police Accountability more important than Bodycams

Police Accountability more important than Bodycams

By Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, Human Rights Watch Yesterday’s grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case in New York City – the second in just […]

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Iraq
Iraq Fail:  Shiite Gov't asks Sunni tribe to fight ISIL, but Sentences Politician from Tribe to Death

Iraq Fail: Shiite Gov’t asks Sunni tribe to fight ISIL, but Sentences Politician from Tribe to Death

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) While members of the Sunni Muslim al-Bu Ulwan tribe were fighting extremists in the Anbar province, alongside the […]

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