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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

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The Limits of Saudi Normalization with Israel

The Limits of Saudi Normalization with Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to achieving […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return

75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return

Omar Shakir Israel and Palestine Director, Middle East and North Africa Division   @OmarSShakir From the morgues of Cairo to the cells of Guantanamo, I’ve […]

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Climate Crisis
More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court

More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court

By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University | – Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous […]

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White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies

White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists […]

Tomdispatch

China
China's Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year

China’s Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first four months of 2023, China’s solar power installations increased by an incredible 36.6 percent year over year, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Nakba:  Remembering Israel's Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nakba: Remembering Israel’s Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks     ( Middle East Monitor ) – On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli […]

Middle East Monitor

Asian-Americans
Chinese Immigrants sue over New DeSantis Law in Florida Barring them from Buying Homes or Land

Chinese Immigrants sue over New DeSantis Law in Florida Barring them from Buying Homes or Land

By: Mitch Perry – Chinese citizens who live and work in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law recently signed […]

Florida Phoenix

Afghanistan
Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan

Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan

By Jennifer Greenburg, University of Sheffield | – A US Army handbook from 2011 opens one of its chapters with a line from Rudyard Kipling’s […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Extremists led by Minister of Nat'l Security Storm al-Aqsa Mosque Complex, as Turkey Condemns "Fascism"

Israeli Extremists led by Minister of Nat’l Security Storm al-Aqsa Mosque Complex, as Turkey Condemns “Fascism”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that dozens of Israeli squatters, with Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at their […]

Juan Cole

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