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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
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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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Iraq between Accelerated Withdrawal and bringing US Troops back In

Iraq between Accelerated Withdrawal and bringing US Troops back In

Today’s story about Iraq is a story of conflict between Gen. Ray Odierno and the Iraqi parliament. Elements in the cabinet and the parliament put […]

Juan Cole

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Obama Defends Afghanistan War; Campaigning Wraps up with Karzai calling on Warlords

Obama Defends Afghanistan War; Campaigning Wraps up with Karzai calling on Warlords

President Barack Obama gave a major speech on the Afghanistan War to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday. Ironically, the American […]

Juan Cole

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Karzai Takes Steps to Regain Lost Momentum

Karzai Takes Steps to Regain Lost Momentum

Incumbent Afghan president Hamid Karzai is clearly feeling the breath of his main rival in the presidential contest on the back of his neck. He […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdish, Arab Leaders Accuse Each other of Terrorism over Ninevah Attacks; 12 Killed, 52 Wounded in Iraq Attacks;

Kurdish, Arab Leaders Accuse Each other of Terrorism over Ninevah Attacks; 12 Killed, 52 Wounded in Iraq Attacks;

In Baghdad, two bombs went off near a falafel stand and killed 8 and wounded 21 persons Al-Zaman [The Times of Baghdad] reports in Arabic […]

Juan Cole

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No Health Reform for Gaza; But Death Panels they Have

No Health Reform for Gaza; But Death Panels they Have

While Americans are debating their own health system, they are unindicted co-conspirators in an effort to degrade the health, mental and physical, and to half-starve […]

Juan Cole

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Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

Some 22 militants died in fighting in Gaza between Hamas and the Army of God’s Helpers on Friday, the latter being a radical fundamentalist cult […]

Juan Cole

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American Grassroots Diplomacy in Damascus

American Grassroots Diplomacy in Damascus

Check out this blog of an interesting experiment in American public diplomacy in Syria: “The American MidEast Leadership Network’s (AMLN’s) Virtual Scrapbook is an online […]

Juan Cole

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7 Killed, 91 Wounded in Suicide Bombing at NATO HQ in Kabul

7 Killed, 91 Wounded in Suicide Bombing at NATO HQ in Kabul

A suicide bomber penetrated several rings of security in Kabul and detonated his payload outside NATO headquarters next to the American Embassy, killing 7 persons […]

Juan Cole

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Epic Fail: Time Magazine on Uselessness of Exercise for Weight Loss

Epic Fail: Time Magazine on Uselessness of Exercise for Weight Loss

I am sure they are smart people, but every once in a while the journalists working for the mainstream media deliver themselves of the opinion […]

Juan Cole

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