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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

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Clinton Cabinet Member Sought Iraq Provocation <br> But W. Himself Proposed Ruse

Clinton Cabinet Member Sought Iraq Provocation
But W. Himself Proposed Ruse

Retired Gen. Hugh Shelton reveals in his new book that in the late 1990s a Clinton cabinet member asked him if was possible to fly […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath <br> Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?

Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath
Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?

Several thousand Jews and Arabs marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the loyalty oath recently approved by the Israeli cabinet, which would force […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Promises to Protect Qana in South Lebanon

Ahmadinejad Promises to Protect Qana in South Lebanon

The USG Open Source Center translates from Persian the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Qana in South Lebanon on Friday (See below). Qana […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Walk out on O'Reilly's Muslim-Baiting

Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Walk out on O’Reilly’s Muslim-Baiting

The View stars Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked out on Bill O’Reilly Thursday when the right wing pundit insisted on blaming all Muslims for […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Top Ten Questions about Chile Mine Collapse:  Was it Nixon-Kissinger’s Fault?

Top Ten Questions about Chile Mine Collapse: Was it Nixon-Kissinger’s Fault?

The corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story. […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Pledges to Protect Lebanon

Ahmadinejad Pledges to Protect Lebanon

On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed large and adoring crowds in the southern Shiite suburbs of Beirut, which had been intensively bombed by Israeli […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Palin Fear-Mongers on Iran, Sharia

Palin Fear-Mongers on Iran, Sharia

Republican gadfly Sarah Palin said in an interview with Newsmax Tuesday that Russia should be warned against helping Iran because if Iran got a nuclear […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Greeted by Cheering Throngs in Beirut

Ahmadinejad Greeted by Cheering Throngs in Beirut

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, being greeted enthusiastically by large crowds (probably mostly Shiites) who lined the streets as his retinue […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Google imagines an Atlantic Wind Grid

Google imagines an Atlantic Wind Grid

One of the problems with new green energy installations is the need to funnel the power, facility by facility, into the existing electricity grid. Google […]

Juan Cole

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