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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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Concentrated Solar Plant in Tunisian Sahara aims to sell Clean Electricity to Europe

Concentrated Solar Plant in Tunisian Sahara aims to sell Clean Electricity to Europe

Reuters: “The TuNur project aims to generate clean energy from a giant solar plant in the Tunisian Sahara from where it will be connected to […]

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Iran
Iran Pressures Media over coverage of Acid Attacks on Women

Iran Pressures Media over coverage of Acid Attacks on Women

By Golnaz Esfandiari via RFE/RL Iranian officials are moving to muzzle media coverage of a string of recent acid attacks targeting young women in the […]

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Internet
No, Baghdad isn't about to Fall:  Iraqi Bloggers & Youth Mount Campaign

No, Baghdad isn’t about to Fall: Iraqi Bloggers & Youth Mount Campaign

By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | via Niqash A group of young Iraqi bloggers and activists have started a campaign on social media using the […]

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Turkey allows Kurdish Peshmerga to Cross to Kobane

Turkey allows Kurdish Peshmerga to Cross to Kobane

By Juan Cole The Turkish press is reporting that Turkish intelligence is facilitating the crossing of a couple hundred paramilitary troops (Peshmerga) from Iraqi Kurdistan […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Only 1/2 of 1% of "Patriot" Act Secret Warrants Used against Terrorism

Only 1/2 of 1% of “Patriot” Act Secret Warrants Used against Terrorism

By Mark Jaycox via Electronic Frontier Foundation The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot […]

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Barack Obama
Nobel Peace Laureates to Obama:  Bring use of torture into the light of day, Never to return

Nobel Peace Laureates to Obama: Bring use of torture into the light of day, Never to return

By Jon Queally via Commondreams.org Twelve Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written to President Barack Obama asking the US to close the dark chapter on […]

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Bahrain
Artificial Billionaires:   Regimes' Crony Capitalism Stifling Middle East

Artificial Billionaires: Regimes’ Crony Capitalism Stifling Middle East

World Bank Across the Middle East and North Africa, countries are being forced to face up to a harsh reality—that, left as they are now, […]

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censorship
Egypt's War on NGOs:  23 Youth sentenced to 3 Years Hard Labor for Peaceful Protests

Egypt’s War on NGOs: 23 Youth sentenced to 3 Years Hard Labor for Peaceful Protests

Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – A Cairo court of minor offenses handed down three-year sentences to 23 people for breaking an anti-protest law that allows […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Iraq:  Is the Sunni-Shiite Slaughter at  Jurf al-Sakhr really a US Victory?

Iraq: Is the Sunni-Shiite Slaughter at Jurf al-Sakhr really a US Victory?

By Juan Cole Apparent good news was announced on Sunday in the fight against the extremist ISIL organization: The Iraqi army, backed by fundamentalist Shiite […]

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