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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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Energy
Pussy Riot Protests Russian Oil Oligarchs and Putin

Pussy Riot Protests Russian Oil Oligarchs and Putin

The Russian Punk Rock band “Pussy Riot” has released a new video, Rolling Stone reports, entitled “Like a Red Prison,” in which they attack Russia’s […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
The End of Dissidents:  The National Security State wants a World without Thoreaus (Engelhardt)

The End of Dissidents: The National Security State wants a World without Thoreaus (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com It’s hard even to know how to take it in.  I mean, what’s really happening?  An employee of a private […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israel’s Netanyahu on Attacking Iran

Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israel’s Netanyahu on Attacking Iran

The Iranian electorate did about the most cruel thing possible to uber-hawk Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It replaced former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
“Mull”:  Twitter word of the Day (Short Words for 140-Character Messages)

“Mull”: Twitter word of the Day (Short Words for 140-Character Messages)

Twitter imposes a 140-character limit on messages, requiring that authors make every word count. To “consider” or to “contemplate” are long words, and character-hogs. The […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Kenya: Solar Power on a Pay as you Go Plan gives Light, rechargers to Villagers

Kenya: Solar Power on a Pay as you Go Plan gives Light, rechargers to Villagers

“Small solar home systems bring good quality light and phone-charging to off-grid households and save them money. Yet their upfront costs render them out of […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Obama Explains his NSA Domestic Spying & Why it differs from Bush's (Cartoon satire)

Obama Explains his NSA Domestic Spying & Why it differs from Bush’s (Cartoon satire)

Cartoon satire: “President Obama explains why Americans should not be concerned about the NSA’s secret data collection program and that he is very different from […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's District 9:  Its Biggest Ethnic Cleansing since 1948

Israel’s District 9: Its Biggest Ethnic Cleansing since 1948

30,000 Palestinian-Israelis of Bedouin heritage are are being forcibly transferred by the Israeli government, and thousands of acres of their land is being stolen from […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
The Backlash against Political Islam is not a Backlash against Islam:  Egypt and Bangladesh

The Backlash against Political Islam is not a Backlash against Islam: Egypt and Bangladesh

There is a big difference between being a believing Muslim and being a devotee of political Islam. Political Islam attempts to make the religion a […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Guns and Sissified Punks (Friday Scene)

Guns and Sissified Punks (Friday Scene)

From the 1995 stoner movie “Friday”: The father [John Witherspoon] of Craig Jones [Ice Cube] warns him against carrying a gun in the local neighborhood […]

Juan Cole

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