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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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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

In his last speech before being assassinated, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. complained about unjustified curbs on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly: It […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in to Second Term: “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny Barack Obama a second term.” – […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

140 nations meeting in Geneva have concluded an accord to limit mercury emissions, which must now be ratified by individual nations. It has implications for […]

Juan Cole

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Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead

Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead

The Algerian military took back the Ayn Imnas gas plant on Saturday, invading it and killing 32 radical fundamentalists, including their leader, Abdul Rahmani al-Nijeri, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy

13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy

The US put in 13 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2012, 5 of it in December alone, according to a Bloomberg study. The […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Kurds Battle Extremist Fundamentalists

Syrian Kurds Battle Extremist Fundamentalists

In a potentially very bad sign for the Syrian Revolution, Agence France Presse Arabic reports that in the town of Ra’s al-Ain in the province […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Was Aaron Swartz a Cyber-Criminal or a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Internet? (Thompson)

Was Aaron Swartz a Cyber-Criminal or a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Internet? (Thompson)

Christie Thompson writes at ProPublica: When Reddit co-founder and internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide last Friday, he was facing up to 13 felony counts, 50 […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Be happy, since once you’re upset  it goes on forever– as stars move into conjunction  in the sky, it will go on. The brick they will […]

Juan Cole

Energy
How Lance Armstrong's Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

How Lance Armstrong’s Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

Understanding how performance-enhancing drugs raise the odds of success in sports helps us understand how dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere raises the chances of […]

Juan Cole

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