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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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How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get about Muslims with Reza Aslan? THIS STUPID.

How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get about Muslims with Reza Aslan? THIS STUPID.

Sam Seder “Watch as Reza Aslan schools CNN anchors and Bill Maher on their Islamophobia…” Sam Seder: “How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get? THIS STUPID”

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Economy
Expansion of Morocco’s Largest Solar Complex to Provide 1.1 Million Moroccans with Clean Energy

Expansion of Morocco’s Largest Solar Complex to Provide 1.1 Million Moroccans with Clean Energy

World Bank WASHINGTON, September 30, 2014­ – The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$519 million project to support Morocco’s ongoing […]

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The Alamo of the Kurds:  Kobane Near Falling to ISIL

The Alamo of the Kurds: Kobane Near Falling to ISIL

By Juan Cole Ismat Sheikh, commander of the Kurdish forces at the border town of Kobane (Ain al-Arab) that is besieged by ISIL tanks and […]

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Climate Change
35,000 Walruses Can't be Wrong about Climate Change:  Crowd beach b/c "extreme retreat of sea ice"

35,000 Walruses Can’t be Wrong about Climate Change: Crowd beach b/c “extreme retreat of sea ice”

ODN/ ITN “Photographed on Saturday, images were taken of at least 35,000 walruses who beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline. The huge gathering was […]

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Education
In Iraqi Classrooms, Sunni Muslim Extremists Ban Evolution, Patriotism And Literature

In Iraqi Classrooms, Sunni Muslim Extremists Ban Evolution, Patriotism And Literature

By Ahmad Mohammed | Kirkuk | via Niqash.org In areas under the control of Sunni Muslim extremists, teachers have been issued a special set of […]

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Climate Change
As the Globe Warms, So Does the Climate Movement

As the Globe Warms, So Does the Climate Movement

By Todd Gitlin via Tomdispatch.com Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn’t too early to say it: the People’s Climate March changed […]

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7 Surprising Reasons Turkey is entering war on ISIL

7 Surprising Reasons Turkey is entering war on ISIL

By Juan Cole The Turkish parliament voted by a large margin Thursday to allow Turkish troops to make incursions into neighboring countries if necessary to […]

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Colonialism
Lessons from French Morocco:  “Fanaticism Anxiety” about Muslims has been with us since the Colonial Era

Lessons from French Morocco: “Fanaticism Anxiety” about Muslims has been with us since the Colonial Era

By Edmund Burke III Today we hear a great deal about the question of what went wrong in Middle Eastern societies. For an historian of […]

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American Jews
Statement by Professors of Jewish Studies in North America Regarding the AMCHA Initiative

Statement by Professors of Jewish Studies in North America Regarding the AMCHA Initiative

Received by email attachment) Statement by Professors of Jewish Studies in North America Regarding the AMCHA Initiative We the undersigned are professors of Jewish studies […]

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