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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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Game Over for Earth:  Big Carbon's Fatal, Scorching Triumph over Greens

Game Over for Earth: Big Carbon’s Fatal, Scorching Triumph over Greens

(By Michael T. Klare) Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address, it would have been easy to conclude that we were slowly but […]

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Egypt
Putinism in Cairo?  The Rise of the Russian Model

Putinism in Cairo? The Rise of the Russian Model

Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed the possibility of a run for the presidency of Egypt by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the architect of the July […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Planet, Oceans Burning Up:  There is no "Pause" in Global Warming

Planet, Oceans Burning Up: There is no “Pause” in Global Warming

(By Jon Queally) Climate change has not hit a "speed bump." The planet's temperature is not remaining steady and it certainly isn't cooling. Earth, especially […]

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Human Rights
Israel to Implant 9-Storey Ultra-Orthodox Seminary in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Israel to Implant 9-Storey Ultra-Orthodox Seminary in Palestinian East Jerusalem

(Via AFP) Israel to build high rise in annexed E.Jerusalem area: NGO (via AFP) Jerusalem’s planning committee moved forwards on Wednesday with plans to build […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
UN:  Civilian drone deaths triple in Afghanistan

UN: Civilian drone deaths triple in Afghanistan

(By Alice K. Ross) Civilian drone deaths in Afghanistan tripled last year, according to a report by a UN agency. Forty-five civilians died in drone […]

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Dissent
Did Religious Extremism drive 2 Million Egyptian youth to Unbelief?

Did Religious Extremism drive 2 Million Egyptian youth to Unbelief?

(By Juan Cole) Egyptian journalist Hilmy al-Namnam said last fall that some researchers had concluded that there were 2 million Egyptian atheists. He blamed the […]

Juan Cole

Republican Party
We're all Living in the World Dick Cheney Made

We’re all Living in the World Dick Cheney Made

(By Mark Danner via a href=”http://www.nybooks.com/”>NYRB and Tomdispatch.com) If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word. — Dick Cheney, […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Can Obama make a grand bargain with Iran over Syria?

Can Obama make a grand bargain with Iran over Syria?

(By Shahram Akbarzadeh) The last round of talks to bring some relief to the humanitarian disaster in Syria achieved remarkable nothing. The anti-Assad delegation traded […]

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Human Rights
False Dawn:  The 35th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution

False Dawn: The 35th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution

(By Farhang Jahanpour) The Iranian revolution succeeded exactly 35 years ago this week. After 37 years of rule, Mohammad Reza Shah left Iran on 16 […]

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