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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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Clarence Thomas Secretly Helped Raise Money for Koch Network, Which has Cases before the Court

Clarence Thomas Secretly Helped Raise Money for Koch Network, Which has Cases before the Court

By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
The Era of Rupert Murdoch, a Blight on our Heating Planet and a Fomenter of War and Racial Hatreds, is Passing

The Era of Rupert Murdoch, a Blight on our Heating Planet and a Fomenter of War and Racial Hatreds, is Passing

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australian-American press lord Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced Thursday that he would step down as the CEO of both News Corp […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Change: Was the freak ‘Medicane’ Storm that devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

Climate Change: Was the freak ‘Medicane’ Storm that devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

By Mike Rogerson, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Belkasem Alkaryani, University of Tobruk and Mahjoor Lone, Northumbria University, Newcastle | – Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan […]

The Conversation

Elderly
Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

(Tomdispatch.com ) – For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian […]

Rebecca Gordon

Featured
Israeli Export Ban Piled Economic Misery on Palestinians of Gaza, as Youths increase Emigration

Israeli Export Ban Piled Economic Misery on Palestinians of Gaza, as Youths increase Emigration

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestinian authorities are increasingly concerned about what they see as an increase in emigration by young Palestinians from the Gaza […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Are Green Sustainability and 20th Century-Style ‘Economic Growth’ Compatible?  Scientists increasingly Fear Not

Are Green Sustainability and 20th Century-Style ‘Economic Growth’ Compatible? Scientists increasingly Fear Not

Ivan Savin, ESCP Business School and Lewis King, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | – (The Conversation) – When she took to the floor to give […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Welcome to the new Green Colonialism: One Last Shot at Reducing Global inequality and Saving the Planet

Welcome to the new Green Colonialism: One Last Shot at Reducing Global inequality and Saving the Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Libyan Dam Collapse and Flooding that Killed 20,000 was made 50 Times more likely by Climate Change

Libyan Dam Collapse and Flooding that Killed 20,000 was made 50 Times more likely by Climate Change

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Weather Attribution site, run by professional European climate scientists, estimated that “An event as extreme as the one […]

Juan Cole

Golf
Saudi Arabia: Investment Fund Linked to Abuses

Saudi Arabia: Investment Fund Linked to Abuses

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The United States should investigate and regulate sovereign wealth funds like Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) that have […]

Human Rights Watch

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