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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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Solar & Wind Renewables Pass Hydroelectric Dams as Power Sources in US

Originally published on the ECOreport. (Editor’s Note: it’s worth noting that the numbers below don’t include rooftop solar power, only utility-scale solar power plants.) The Sun Day Campaign has just released a press release proclaiming the…

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Shooting victim’s father rips ‘rudderless idiots’ in Congress: ‘I can’t tell you how angry I am’

Shooting victim’s father rips ‘rudderless idiots’ in Congress: ‘I can’t tell you how angry I am’

With a California town grieving the deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim’s father on Monday blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun laws after a mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.…

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Did a Karzai No-Show Spoil Obama's announcement of end of Afghanistan War?

Did a Karzai No-Show Spoil Obama’s announcement of end of Afghanistan War?

By Juan Cole Update: President Obama on Tuesday morning announced the end of the Afghanistan War on December 31, 2016. He envisions about 10,000 US […]

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Apartheid
Pope Francis Calls for Palestinian State, Prays at Apartheid Wall

Pope Francis Calls for Palestinian State, Prays at Apartheid Wall

On Sunday in Bethlehem, Pope Francis called for recognition of an independent Palestinian state. CNN reports that he asked for “the acknowledgment by all of […]

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European Union
Far-right rises in European Parliament elections, but is it a 'Euroquake'?

Far-right rises in European Parliament elections, but is it a ‘Euroquake’?

By Remy Davison, Monash University, via The Conversation Some 400 million eligible voters, 751 seats, 28 countries: a portrait of true democracy at work – […]

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S. Carolina Bible College head Slaveholder Arrested. Yes, You Read That Correctly

S. Carolina Bible College head Slaveholder Arrested. Yes, You Read That Correctly

… and your jaw is going to hit the floor when you read what he does for a living: The president of a South Carolina Bible college was charged last week with essentially treating foreign students as slaves by forcing them to perform work for little…

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Climate Change
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California's Shale Fail: The Case of 13 Billion Barrels of Missing Oil By Richard Heinberg In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US […]

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On Memorial Day, Let's do right by our Veterans

On Memorial Day, Let’s do right by our Veterans

(By Juan Cole) Memorial Day should honor not only those military personnel who gave their lives for America but really all those who have suffered […]

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Obama's Just Right Foreign Policy

Obama’s Just Right Foreign Policy

By Daniel Wagner via IPD A plethora of pundits, lawmakers and think tanks continue to criticize the Obama administration for presiding over what appear to […]

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