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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

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Iran Charges 16, Including Several Teens, For Protests Amid Reports Of Forced Confessions

Iran Charges 16, Including Several Teens, For Protests Amid Reports Of Forced Confessions

By Ardeshir Tayebi | – ( RFE/RL ) – Iran has charged 16 people, including several teenagers, in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia for […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s New West Bank Entry Rules Further Isolate Occupied Palestinians (HRW)

Israel’s New West Bank Entry Rules Further Isolate Occupied Palestinians (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – New Israeli guidelines on access to the West Bank for foreigners threaten to further isolate Palestinians from loved ones […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs could undermine Climate Efforts

As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs could undermine Climate Efforts

By Noah Kaufman, Columbia University;Chris Bataille, Columbia University; Gautam Jain, Columbia University; and Sagatom Saha, Columbia University | – Rising trade tensions between the U.S. […]

The Conversation

Far Right
Israel's Netanyahu Crumbles before Supreme Court demand he Fire Corrupt Minister, as AG considers Banning Netanyahu Too

Israel’s Netanyahu Crumbles before Supreme Court demand he Fire Corrupt Minister, as AG considers Banning Netanyahu Too

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Carrie Keller-Lynn at The Times of Israel reports that at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was forced to fire […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu's claim of Jewish exclusivity in Palestine must be challenged

Netanyahu’s claim of Jewish exclusivity in Palestine must be challenged

By Iqbal Jassat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The defiant declaration by Benjamin Netanyahu that he is going to press ahead and […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too

Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too

By Daniel Cohan, Rice University | Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of […]

The Conversation

China
Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China

Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China

( Tomdispatch.com) – Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of […]

Michael T. Klare

Authoritarianism
Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu?  110,000 Rally against Gov't

Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu? 110,000 Rally against Gov’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 110,000 Israelis protested Saturday night at two big rallies in Tel Aviv. So reports Al Jazeera. The larger of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?

Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage […]

John Feffer

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