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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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Jon Stewart’s Satire on N. Korea goes Viral in China (Fisher)

Jon Stewart’s Satire on N. Korea goes Viral in China (Fisher)

The intrepid Max Fisher of WaPo reports that Jon Stewart’s Daily Show satire of North Korea’s menacing statements went viral in China, garnering 2.3 million […]

Juan Cole

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Syria:  Car Bombing Kills 15 in Damascus as Regime Launches Massive Counter-Attack

Syria: Car Bombing Kills 15 in Damascus as Regime Launches Massive Counter-Attack

A car bomb killed at least 15 persons in downtown Damascus on Monday and wounded over 60. It is not clear if the bombing is […]

Juan Cole

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Iceland: Pioneer in Green, Geothermal Energy

Iceland: Pioneer in Green, Geothermal Energy

Iceland gets 26% of its electricity from geothermal power, and is a pioneer in the industry, such that Kenyan and other scientists go there for […]

Juan Cole

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Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Democracy Now!)

Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! interviews the Iceland member of parliament, access to whose twitter account was summarily demanded by the US government because of her involvement in […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Ways Margaret Thatcher’s Policies Made our World more Unequal

Top Ten Ways Margaret Thatcher’s Policies Made our World more Unequal

The late Margaret Thatcher had an enormous impact on Britain and the world, but her legacy has been a more unequal, less prosperous Britain and […]

Juan Cole

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Deep Sanctions on Iran are Repeating the Deadly Mistakes of Iraq (Hindawi)

Deep Sanctions on Iran are Repeating the Deadly Mistakes of Iraq (Hindawi)

Coralie Pison Hindawi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion (a war unleashed […]

Juan Cole

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Ontario First Major Industrial Region to Abolish Dirty Coal Plants (Coal should be Illegal)

Ontario First Major Industrial Region to Abolish Dirty Coal Plants (Coal should be Illegal)

Coal plants are the world’s most abundant and most dangerous source of carbon dioxide emissions and the most important single driver of catastrophic climate change. […]

Juan Cole

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13-year-old Iranian Girl Sings Adele's 'Someone like You'

13-year-old Iranian Girl Sings Adele’s ‘Someone like You’

For a different view of Iranian youth than the images of anger and menace most often purveyed in US media (as Rami Khoury rightly argues): […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt: New Left and Coptic Christians Demand Toppling of Muslim Brotherhood Regime

Egypt: New Left and Coptic Christians Demand Toppling of Muslim Brotherhood Regime

A small crowd of some 500 marched in downtown Cairo on Saturday calling for the fall of the Muhammad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, regime. It was […]

Juan Cole

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