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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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Jahanpour: US following Israeli 5-Point Plan on Iran: Wikileaks

Jahanpour: US following Israeli 5-Point Plan on Iran: Wikileaks

Farhang Jahanpour writes in a guest column for Informed Comment What is truly alarming about the new batch of Wikileaks diplomatic files is the extent […]

Juan Cole

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Al-Khoei:  Ayatollah Sistani is Iraq’s Bulwark against Iran:  Wikileaks

Al-Khoei: Ayatollah Sistani is Iraq’s Bulwark against Iran: Wikileaks

Hayder al-Khoei writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The “cablegate” leaks have gone a long way in embarrassing governments all over the world, […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Top Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far

Top Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far

1. The British government’s official inquiry into how it got involved in the Iraq War was deeply compromised by the government’s pledge to protect the […]

Juan Cole

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Gates: Saudis want to Fight Iran to the Last American

Gates: Saudis want to Fight Iran to the Last American

Wikileaks Quote of the Day: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Paris, February 8, 2010: “… the Saudis always […]

Juan Cole

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Wikileaks:  UK, US Planned to Pressure IAEA on Iran, Tie Tehran to Pyongyang

Wikileaks: UK, US Planned to Pressure IAEA on Iran, Tie Tehran to Pyongyang

Scott Peterson’s fine piece at CSM on Iranian reactions to the Wikileaks cables is given further credence by yet another document that surfaced Tuesday. Peterson […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza as Israel’s Gimp

Gaza as Israel’s Gimp

In Quentin Tarantino’s camp noir classic, Pulp Fiction, the Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames characters have an altercation and one chases the other into a […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap:  Cole in the Guardian

Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap: Cole in the Guardian

My essay on the implications of the wikileaks revelations about Sunni Arab states urging the US to launch a surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter

Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter

A 2007 cable from then US ambassador to Israel to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows a) that the Israeli leadership did not want the […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban

Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban

What they tell us: In summer of 2009, it was revealed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair informed the US Congress that, according to […]

Juan Cole

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