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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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Three Us Soldiers Wounded In Habaniyah

Three Us Soldiers Wounded In Habaniyah

Three US Soldiers Wounded in Habaniyah Saturday AP reports . . . U.S. soldiers were wounded after opening fire on a truck packed with explosives […]

Juan Cole

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7 British Soldiers Wounded In Battle

7 British Soldiers Wounded In Battle

7 British Soldiers wounded in Battle with Badr, Demonstrators in Amarah Ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The police chief in the province of Maysan announced yesterday that two […]

Juan Cole

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Shuttle Diplomacy In Najaf Efforts

Shuttle Diplomacy In Najaf Efforts

Shuttle Diplomacy in Najaf Efforts continued Saturday to iron out differences on the Interim Governing Council about two provisions of the Basic Law, says ash-Sharq […]

Juan Cole

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All Dressed Up With No Place To Go

All Dressed Up With No Place To Go

All Dressed up with No Place to Go: Setback for Basic Law az-Zaman: On Friday, five Shiite members of the Interim Governing Council suddenly pulled […]

Juan Cole

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Zarqawi Dossier I Have Begun Putting

Zarqawi Dossier I Have Begun Putting

Zarqawi Dossier I have begun putting together a dossier on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (a.k.a. Ahmad Fadil Nazzal Al-Khalayleh). It will include US government documents in […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Fatwa No Entering Iraq

Sistani Fatwa No Entering Iraq

Sistani Fatwa: No Entering Iraq Illegally Informed that thousands of Iranian pilgrims came into Iraq every day, by-passing the official checkpoints, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sitani […]

Juan Cole

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Major Censorship Action Alert For

Major Censorship Action Alert For

Major Censorship Action Alert for Middle East Studies Some of you know that some unsavory political forces have convinced the House of Representatives to create […]

Juan Cole

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Us Soldier Wounded 9 Iraqis Killed Afp

Us Soldier Wounded 9 Iraqis Killed Afp

US Soldier Wounded, 9 Iraqis Killed AFP reports that a US soldier was injured and nine Iraqis were killed Thursday in separate attacks throughout the […]

Juan Cole

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Knight Ridder Questions Saddam Al Qaeda

Knight Ridder Questions Saddam Al Qaeda

Knight-Ridder Questions Saddam-al-Qaeda Links Warren Strobel et al. of Knight Ridder have looked at the case for Saddam-al-Qaeda links and found them lacking. 1. Although […]

Juan Cole

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