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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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China
At the Brink of War in the Pacific?  The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

At the Brink of War in the Pacific? The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

( Tomdispatch.com ) – While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Israel's Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Israel’s Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the civil administrator of the Palestinian West Bank in the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu's idea of workable Peace excludes Palestinian Independence

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s idea of workable Peace excludes Palestinian Independence

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Benjamin Netanyahu has always been an open book. Although the Israeli prime minister […]

Middle East Monitor

Antarctica
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting. And this is bad News for Humanity

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting. And this is bad News for Humanity

By Marta Moreno Ibáñez, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | – (The Conversation) – Ottawa’s famous Rideau Canal, which turns into the world’s largest […]

The Conversation

Health
Mysterious Wave Of Sickness Hits Iranian Schoolgirls, Amid Speculation Over Gov’t Poisoning

Mysterious Wave Of Sickness Hits Iranian Schoolgirls, Amid Speculation Over Gov’t Poisoning

A spate of illnesses in schools in the Iranian city of Qom has prompted public anger, with some accusing the government of negligence.    ( […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – I was horrified to watch the February 22 Israeli army assault on Nablus where I was born. I grew […]

Mohammed Samaana

Authoritarianism
End the "Citizens United" Ruling with a "Democracy for All Amendment"

End the “Citizens United” Ruling with a “Democracy for All Amendment”

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the United States government has been privatized by the Citizens United ruling of the SCOTUS. Government is […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Authoritarianism
Are Western sanctions on Iran making a difference?

Are Western sanctions on Iran making a difference?

By Amin Saikal, The University of Western Australia | – (The Conversation) – The Iranian Islamic regime has been seriously challenged since the start of […]

The Conversation

military
How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War:  Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War: Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

By Joshua Frank | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that […]

Tomdispatch

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