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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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The US helped Break up the Sudan, and now South Sudan Faces Famine

The US helped Break up the Sudan, and now South Sudan Faces Famine

By Nick Turse [This story was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Additional funding was provided through the generosity of […]

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Obama & Airstrikes to Protect Iraqi Kurds:  1991 Deja Vu all Over Again

Obama & Airstrikes to Protect Iraqi Kurds: 1991 Deja Vu all Over Again

By Juan Cole During the Gulf War in early 1991, then-president George H. W. Bush called on Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein and […]

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Climate Change
With Warming Lake Water, Toledo's Algae Problem will Get Worse

With Warming Lake Water, Toledo’s Algae Problem will Get Worse

PBS News Hour: “Conversation with Richard Stumpf of NOAA on the science behind the algal bloom.” Stumpf points out that the algae like war water […]

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Apartheid
A Discourse of sexualized violence rises among the Israel Firsters, including on Bill Maher

A Discourse of sexualized violence rises among the Israel Firsters, including on Bill Maher

By Alex Shams BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — As the bombs have been falling on Gaza over the past four weeks, another war has been ongoing for […]

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Africa
Gaza Crisis Spills Into Nigeria

Gaza Crisis Spills Into Nigeria

by Allan Christelow On Friday, July 25, in the city of Zaria, a procession of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria came into conflict with Nigerian […]

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Apartheid
Israel, Gaza, and the Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment Movement

Israel, Gaza, and the Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment Movement

AJ+ “Israel’s month-long assault on Gaza has over 1900 Palestinians dead, mostly civilians. It has sparked condemnation by the UN and of course on twitter. […]

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American Jews
Is Zionism/ Jewish Nationalism a Political Cult?  The Salaita Firing

Is Zionism/ Jewish Nationalism a Political Cult? The Salaita Firing

By Juan Cole Liberal politics in the broad sense, in the tradition of Locke, Voltaire, Madison, Jefferson and John Stuart Mill, is rooted in a […]

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Apartheid
Israel caused $5 billion in damage to Gaza, 40,000 Homes Destroyed or Damaged

Israel caused $5 billion in damage to Gaza, 40,000 Homes Destroyed or Damaged

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s offensive on Gaza has caused over $5 billion of damage to homes and infrastructure in the Strip, the Minister of Public […]

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Apartheid
Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot down Fleeing Civilians (Stories begin to Leak out) - HRW

Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot down Fleeing Civilians (Stories begin to Leak out) – HRW

By Human Rights Watch When will there be justice for the civilians in Khuza’a, who suffered shelling for days, then faced deadly attacks by Israeli […]

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