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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

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

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Media, Politicians should stop Letting ISIL Manipulate them

Media, Politicians should stop Letting ISIL Manipulate them

By Juan Cole Ever since George W. Bush invaded Iraq and created the circumstances under which al-Qaeda could take root and flourish there from 2003 […]

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Iraq
War or Counterterrorism?   John Kerry denies it is a War

War or Counterterrorism? John Kerry denies it is a War

By RFE/RL White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the United States is “at war with ISIL” on September 12, after Secretary of State John […]

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The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The Pathologies of Rule by a Handful of Billionaires

The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The Pathologies of Rule by a Handful of Billionaires

By Steve Fraser via Tomdispatch.com George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century.  Amid a violent and […]

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Israel
The Death of Palestine:  Israeli Ambition and Palestinian Weakness

The Death of Palestine: Israeli Ambition and Palestinian Weakness

By Tareq Ramadan Given the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations alongside the current policies of the Netanyahu administration, the recent Gaza episode can be viewed, in […]

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Middle East "Allies" decline to Commit Forces, Resources against ISIL

Middle East “Allies” decline to Commit Forces, Resources against ISIL

By Juan Cole US Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting in Jedda with ten Middle Eastern foreign ministers produced a communique on Friday, but little […]

Juan Cole

President Erdoğan to participate in key TÜSİAD meeting

President Erdoğan to participate in key TÜSİAD meeting

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will join a meeting hosted by Turkey’s top business group next week, in a possible sign of improved relations with the […]

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Arabs without God

Arabs without God

By Brian Whitaker, author of Arabs without God In the midst of sectarian turmoil in the Middle East, one section of Arab society rarely gets […]

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Dissent
The Israeli version of Steven Salaita:  Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism

The Israeli version of Steven Salaita: Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism

By Amir Hetsroni This is how I became the Israeli version of Steven Salaita:   I was teaching at Ariel University when administrators summoned me to […]

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Israel
How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu

How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu

By Ramzy Baroud (Maan News Agency) Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly — his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried […]

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