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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

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

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Mass Sunni Uprising in Iraq: Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion (Cole on Democracy Now!)

Mass Sunni Uprising in Iraq: Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion (Cole on Democracy Now!)

I appeared on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! to discuss the situation in Iraq Transcript: AARON MATÉ: President Obama has announced plans to deploy about 275 […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War

Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War

Tragically, all we’ve fought for in Iraq, all that 4,500 American lives were shed to gain, is on the cusp, potentially, of vanishing. – Mitt Romney, “Ideas Summit,” 6/13/2014 All we fought for in Iraq. All we fought for in Iraq is on the cusp…

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Rabbi Nachman Sudak, head of Chabad UK, dies

Rabbi Nachman Sudak, head of Chabad UK, dies

Directed personally by the Lubavitcher rebbe to move to London, the rabbi guided the movement in Britain for over 50 years

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Barack Obama
Opportunities Abound in Iraq to Reset US Middle East Policy

Opportunities Abound in Iraq to Reset US Middle East Policy

By Kirk J. Beattie The crisis induced by ISIL’s advances in Iraq presents tremendous opportunities for the United States, and the U.S. government should move […]

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Climate Change
Fracking Threatens US Water:  AP

Fracking Threatens US Water: AP

The Associated Press has been doing a bang-up job of covering fracking issues lately, and over the weekend they released a bombshell fracking report that set fire to the tubes. The new fracking report focuses on oil and gas fracking wells that are classified…

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Banking
Why were Wall Street & Banking not Reformed after 2008?   Congress!

Why were Wall Street & Banking not Reformed after 2008? Congress!

Why haven’t any big bankers been prosecuted for their role in the housing crisis that led to the Great Recession? These finance executives took part in “scandals that violate the most basic ethical norms,” as the head of the IMF Christine Lagarde…

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Barack Obama
Don't Trust the Bombers on Iraq:  "Shock and Awe" Never Works

Don’t Trust the Bombers on Iraq: “Shock and Awe” Never Works

By Juan Cole In March of 2003, we were treated to an intensive bombardment of Iraq, which the Bush White House propagandists termed “Shock and […]

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Americans' Freedom of Speech has gone downhill since 9/11

Americans’ Freedom of Speech has gone downhill since 9/11

By Peter Van Buren What We’ve Lost Since 9/11 Taking Down the First Amendment in Post-Constitutional America By Peter Van Buren America has entered its […]

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Iraq
Why some Iraqis would rather try their luck under Sunni Extremists

Why some Iraqis would rather try their luck under Sunni Extremists

ERBIL, Iraq — Five days after fleeing Mosul in northern Iraq, Ahmed says he’s now more nervous than ever. But it’s not the Al Qaeda-inspired extremists who took over his hometown that have him worried. No, he’s scared of what his own military might…

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