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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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Rooftop Solar Soared 40% (3 Gigawatts) in Germany Last Year, as Families Flee Unstable Russian Fossil Fuels

Rooftop Solar Soared 40% (3 Gigawatts) in Germany Last Year, as Families Flee Unstable Russian Fossil Fuels

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped 28 percent in 2022, with 7.2 gigawatts (GW) […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Edwards Air Force Base Near LA to host Largest Solar-plus-storage Project in the World

Edwards Air Force Base Near LA to host Largest Solar-plus-storage Project in the World

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, near Los Angeles and San Bernardino, is now home to the largest […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Faustian Bargain: On pretext of Israel, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from Committee to please White Nationalist Base

Faustian Bargain: On pretext of Israel, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from Committee to please White Nationalist Base

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Congressional Republicans are more interested in grandstanding than governance, and political persecution rather than functional democracy. The banishment […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Nonviolence
How local Peace Work changes Culture, Town by Town, Generation by Generation

How local Peace Work changes Culture, Town by Town, Generation by Generation

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Signs abound in Greenfield, Massachusetts’ downtown shop windows, among them PEACE, ART NOT WAR, FOOD FOR ALL NOT […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new Phase

Why the Violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new Phase

By Susan de Groot Heupner, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to the Middle East last week […]

The Conversation

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No, Militant Israeli Squatters haven't Exceeded 500K in Occupied Palestine:  It is more Like 733,000

No, Militant Israeli Squatters haven’t Exceeded 500K in Occupied Palestine: It is more Like 733,000

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AP is reporting that what it calls the Israeli “settler” population in the Palestinian West Bank has now exceeded 500,000, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Illegal Collective Punishment against Palestinians

Israel: Illegal Collective Punishment against Palestinians

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities’ actions to seal the family homes in the occupied West Bank of two Palestinians suspected […]

Human Rights Watch

Corruption
No Amount of Fraud Deters Government Agencies When It Comes to Privatizing Medicare

No Amount of Fraud Deters Government Agencies When It Comes to Privatizing Medicare

By Ana Malinow and Kay Tillow | – ( Commondreams.org) – On January 17, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced 48 new […]

Common Dreams

Republican Party
The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression

The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The fundamental right to vote has been a core value of Black politics since the colonial […]

Tomdispatch

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