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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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Why Wasn't the Higgs Boson Discovered in the US?  Neal DeGrasse Tyson explains congressional stupidity

Why Wasn’t the Higgs Boson Discovered in the US? Neal DeGrasse Tyson explains congressional stupidity

Scientists at a conference in Italy have confirmed the discovery of the Higgs Boson, after further experiments performed at the large hadron collider near Geneva […]

Juan Cole

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Phoenix, Az.: Climate Change Denial HQ will be First Urban Victim of ... Climate Change (deBuys)

Phoenix, Az.: Climate Change Denial HQ will be First Urban Victim of … Climate Change (deBuys)

William deBuys writes at Tomdispatch.com Of course, it’s an easy city to pick on. The nation’s 13th largest metropolitan area (nudging out Detroit) crams 4.3 […]

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Top Ten Ways Pope Francis heralds the Emergence of Global South

Top Ten Ways Pope Francis heralds the Emergence of Global South

The selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pope signals the first time the Roman Catholic Church has been headed by […]

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What the US invasion felt like to Iraqis (Kukis)

What the US invasion felt like to Iraqis (Kukis)

Journalist Mark Kukis (Time magazine correspondent in Iraq 2006-2009) writes in a guest piece for Informed Comment Iraqis have a phrase they use to describe […]

Juan Cole

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Amazing Social Media Facts 2013 (video)

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Falsity of Nuclear Accusation against Iraq Was Known before Bush’s Invasion

Falsity of Nuclear Accusation against Iraq Was Known before Bush’s Invasion

As we approach the ten year anniversary of the launching of George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, it is worth my pointing out that I […]

Juan Cole

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Bradley Manning Explains his Leaks in his own Voice in new Tape (Goodman)

Bradley Manning Explains his Leaks in his own Voice in new Tape (Goodman)

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! airs excerpts from a leaked interview in which Bradley Manning for the first time since his arrest can be heard explaining […]

Juan Cole

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Everybody Leaks in Washington: What the Bradley Manning Trial Tells us about a Broken System (Schanzer)

DAVID SCHANZER writes at ISLAMiCOMMENTARY When you cut through the bluster and controversies surrounding the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks case, it raises a difficult unresolved question that […]

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Syrian Regime running out of Troops as Britain Threatens to arm Rebels

Syrian Regime running out of Troops as Britain Threatens to arm Rebels

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday that he would veto the renewal of a European Union ban on weapons exports to Syria, and hinted […]

Juan Cole

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