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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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Israel/ Palestine
The Words the US and European Press are too Cowardly to Use about Israel's Occupation of Palestinians: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Apartheid

The Words the US and European Press are too Cowardly to Use about Israel’s Occupation of Palestinians: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Apartheid

( Middle East Monitor ) – On 20 February, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
The EV Transition isn’t just about Cars – the broader Goal should be Access to clean Mobility for Everyone

The EV Transition isn’t just about Cars – the broader Goal should be Access to clean Mobility for Everyone

By Sita M. Syal, University of Michigan | (The Conversation) – The race to decarbonize passenger cars and light-duty trucks in the U.S. is accelerating. […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating

Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ruth Schuster at Haaretz reports on a new study led by Assaf Hochmann at Hebrew University, finding that extreme heat […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous

Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous

By Rebekah Entralgo | – ( Otherwords.org ) – The toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are […]

OtherWords

Israel/ Palestine
Israel submits Plans  for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank

Israel submits Plans for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank

( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli occupation authorities have submitted plans to build 7,157 new settlement units in the E1 area that would bisect Palestinian […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third

Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third

By Meelan Thondoo, University of Cambridge; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Australian Catholic University; and Tamara Iungman, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) | – (The Conversation) – […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity

Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Renewable energy continues to burgeon rapidly in the United States. Here are some of the signs of a major transformation […]

Juan Cole

Banking
$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

By Ludvig Wier, University of Copenhagen and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – About a decade ago, the world’s biggest […]

The Conversation

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