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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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Food
As SNAP Benefits are Cut:  How it Feels to Be Hungry

As SNAP Benefits are Cut: How it Feels to Be Hungry

By Beverly Gologorsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – My long-dead father used to say, “Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake.” […]

Tomdispatch

China
Is China the New Indispensable Nation? Beijing Brokers Iran-Saudi Relations as U.S. and Israel are Sidelined

Is China the New Indispensable Nation? Beijing Brokers Iran-Saudi Relations as U.S. and Israel are Sidelined

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with Al Jazeera English, veteran Washington Iran watcher Hillary Mann Leverett asserted that, in the wake of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Israeli Right's new Tactic of Low-Intensity war on Palestinians Plus Economic Growth won't Work

Why the Israeli Right’s new Tactic of Low-Intensity war on Palestinians Plus Economic Growth won’t Work

by Walid Habbas  ( Al-Shabaka.org ) – Since 2021, Israeli leaders have proposed a new series of economic policies under the approach of “shrinking the conflict.” […]

Al-Shabaka

Authoritarianism
Iran: Unions and Civil Rights groups demand Democracy and social Justice

Iran: Unions and Civil Rights groups demand Democracy and social Justice

By Simin Fadaee, University of Manchester | – Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Women in Turkey March to mark International Women’s Day, despite state Pressure

Women in Turkey March to mark International Women’s Day, despite state Pressure

“We are angry, we are mourning, we are in a feminist revolt.” Written byArzu Geybullayeva   Istanbul march. Photo by Arzu Geybullayeva ( Globalvoices.org ) […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

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America's War of Aggression on Iraq, 20 Years Later:  Or, Putin the Prequel

America’s War of Aggression on Iraq, 20 Years Later: Or, Putin the Prequel

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Change Impacts could Cost Germany up to Nearly $1 Trillion by 2050

Climate Change Impacts could Cost Germany up to Nearly $1 Trillion by 2050

By Carolina Kyllmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The consequences of climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros by […]

Clean Energy Wire

Iran
Iran: poisoning of Thousands of Schoolgirls piles more Pressure on Islamic Republic struggling for Survival

Iran: poisoning of Thousands of Schoolgirls piles more Pressure on Islamic Republic struggling for Survival

By Afshin Shahi, Keele University | – The Iranian government has announced several arrests in connection with the reported poisoning of more than 7,000 schoolgirls […]

The Conversation

Far Right
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”

Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”

by Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented Co-published with Documented ( ProPublica ) – A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid […]

ProPublica

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