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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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At Oscars, Director of "A Separation" Slams War Talk

At Oscars, Director of “A Separation” Slams War Talk

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film “A Separation,” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year, had this to say in his acceptance speech: […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (45)

Omar Khayyam (45)

Since things are not going  to work out the way we want, where will it get us to dwell on our struggles?– Except to sit […]

Juan Cole

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The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture)

The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture)

In the build-up to the Super Tuesday primaries, in 2012 and 2008, candidates Romney and Obama, respectively, addressed crowds in stadiums. Here is the difference. […]

Juan Cole

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Five Things Rick Santorum Could have Learned in College

Five Things Rick Santorum Could have Learned in College

Rick Santorum attacked President Obama on Saturday for being “a snob” because, Santorum said, the president wanted all Americans to have a college education (Obama […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (43)

Omar Khayyam (43)

Fear of mortality and notions of nothingness are your own kind of drunkeness. Otherwise you’d see  that from the  branch of death twigs of immortality grow. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

The Muslim Fundamentalist Palestinian party-militia Hamas, based largely in the Gaza Strip has abruptly broken with its long-time patron, Syria. The leadership has scattered from […]

Juan Cole

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Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran

Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran

Despite American assertions that Iran is “internationally isolated,” it turns out that the boycott of that country is a solidly Northern Hemisphere phenomenon and only […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Republicans silent as Netanyahu disses Gen. Dempsey

Republicans silent as Netanyahu disses Gen. Dempsey

Courtesy Paul Jamiol For background see this posting and Ian Master’s recent interview with me on this issue

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (19)

Omar Khayyam (19)

19 The day when I down shots one after one and with total delight become falling down drunk, I’ll work a hundred miracles on every […]

Juan Cole

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