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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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Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

Former US ambassador and perennial angry old crank John Bolton is so upset about the possibility that Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor will soon go live […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
59 Dead, 120 Wounded in Iraqi Suicide Bombing; <br/>Iraqi Parties reject US Power Sharing Proposal

59 Dead, 120 Wounded in Iraqi Suicide Bombing;
Iraqi Parties reject US Power Sharing Proposal

The Telegraph reports that 59 persons are dead and 120 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on potential army recruits in Baghdad. There may have […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Top Ways Dan Senor Could have avoided offending Iraqi Muslims

Top Ways Dan Senor Could have avoided offending Iraqi Muslims

Former Bush administration spokesman in Iraq Dan Senor is against the building of a Sufi Muslim community center in lower Manhattan. He says he is […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Dear Climate Change Deniers

Dear Climate Change Deniers

Dear Climate Change Deniers: This summer, Russia, a former icebox, is so hot that it is actually on fire. A third of Pakistan is affected […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Book of the Day:  Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Book of the Day: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Book of the Day: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine […]

Juan Cole

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An Israeli Attack on Iran would reduce Barack Obama to a One-Term President

An Israeli Attack on Iran would reduce Barack Obama to a One-Term President

What should a poor warmongering Neoconservative do? This political grouping includes WASPS such as former CIA director James Woolsey and former UN ambassor John Bolton, […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
500,000 evacuated from Jacobabad as Floodwaters head toward Sindh

500,000 evacuated from Jacobabad as Floodwaters head toward Sindh

As Pakistan’s massive flooding continues, Some 500,000 people have been forced to evacuate the Sindhi city of Jacobabad, suddenly finding themselves homeless. Ordinarily this sort […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Kurdish General Again Insubordinate, Angles for US to Remain in Iraq

Kurdish General Again Insubordinate, Angles for US to Remain in Iraq

The public statement by Iraqi chief of staff Lt. General Babakr Zebari , at a defense conference that the Iraqi army would not be ready […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
6 Million Pakistanis need Immediate Aid as 1/3 of Country is Submerged

6 Million Pakistanis need Immediate Aid as 1/3 of Country is Submerged

I can barely believe the words I am writing are not a nightmare from which I will soon wake up. A third of Pakistan is […]

Juan Cole

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