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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

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Mohammed Altamimi, Age 2: The Latest Victim of Israeli Apartheid Toward Palestinians

Mohammed Altamimi, Age 2: The Latest Victim of Israeli Apartheid Toward Palestinians

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Like any other toddler in the world, two and a half years old Palestinian toddler Mohammed Altamimi was […]

Mohammed Samaana

Egypt
Jada Pinkett Smith's Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?

Jada Pinkett Smith’s Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?

By Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan | – Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t […]

The Conversation

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Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Gay rights
Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook

Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook

By Mitchell Zimmerman ( Otherwords ) – The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same […]

OtherWords

Democratic Party
With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?

With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s two indictments will likely throw the 2024 election to Joe Biden. Assuming Biden remains in good health and there […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Hate Groups' Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center

Hate Groups’ Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center

By: Ashley Murray – J   ( Minnesota Reformer) – WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews

Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews

( Middle East Monitor ) – Arab citizens in Israel pay higher interest rates on bank loans than Jews, Israel’s Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on […]

Middle East Monitor

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Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions

Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions

By David Roche, University of Technology Sydney | – Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Top 3 Crimes Trump should have been Indicted for besides Mishandling Documents

Top 3 Crimes Trump should have been Indicted for besides Mishandling Documents

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although the saga of Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, as revealed in the 38-count indictment, is shocking to anyone who […]

Juan Cole

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