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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

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Carnage Becoming Routine In Iraq

Carnage Becoming Routine In Iraq

Carnage becoming Routine in Iraq: Another Bloody Sunday ArabNews summarizes the carnage in Iraq on Sunday. Tikrit: Guerrillas ambushed a bus as it let off […]

Juan Cole

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Abu Ghuraib Redux Arabic Satellite

Abu Ghuraib Redux Arabic Satellite

Abu Ghuraib Redux The Arabic satellite television programs showed the new Abu Ghuraib pictures repeatedly late last week, and they provoked a new round of […]

Juan Cole

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Blogging Fallujah And Us Air War

Blogging Fallujah And Us Air War

Blogging Fallujah, and the US Air War against Iraqi Civilians Thomas E. Ricks has a characteristically piercing examination of the way in which a single […]

Juan Cole

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Arabkurdish Sunnishiite Violence

Arabkurdish Sunnishiite Violence

Arab/Kurdish, Sunni/Shiite Violence Flares, Killing Dozens The violence in Iraq on Saturday, which killed at least 40 and wounded many more, was particularly worrying because […]

Juan Cole

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30 Killed In Tsunami Of Attacks Arab

30 Killed In Tsunami Of Attacks Arab

30 Killed in Tsunami of Attacks Arab satellite stations are reporting mortar attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad (where the US embassy and government […]

Juan Cole

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Hollowness Of War On Terror Madrid Hit

Hollowness Of War On Terror Madrid Hit

Hollowness of War on Terror: Madrid hit Again Madrid was thrown into chaos on Friday when the Basque separatist organization ETA set off five bombs […]

Juan Cole

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Card Wins Legal Action Against Pipes

Card Wins Legal Action Against Pipes

Card wins Legal Action against Pipes Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer settled a libel suit out of court with University of Oregon instructor Douglas Card. […]

Juan Cole

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More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence in Iraq Associated Press reports that the fortified Green Zone (US offices and Iraqi government buildings) in Baghdad took heavy mortar fire on […]

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Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy-Ops and News The Los Angeles Times’s Mark Mazetti writes about a US military psy-ops campaign against the guerrillas in Fallujah in mid-October, in which […]

Juan Cole

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