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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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Authoritarianism
Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari's execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari’s execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – On Saturday 14 January, the Iranian regime executed a 61-year old dual Iranian-British national and a former deputy defence […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Corruption
Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind?  On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind? On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – Suspicions grow that not only did new Congressman George Santos (R-NY) fabricate his educational and employment record but that […]

Michael G. Roskin

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action

Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action

By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them

Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released talking points for its report on 2022, warning that the oceans are […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Did Netflix Really fulfill its Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2022?

Did Netflix Really fulfill its Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2022?

By Christine Ro | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world’s most popular video […]

Clean Energy Wire

Authoritarianism
A New Crop of Disruptor-Politicians is failing the Earth

A New Crop of Disruptor-Politicians is failing the Earth

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – House Republicans, Euroskeptics, Vladimir Putin, and Jair Bolsonaro are the agents of a new kind of political disorder that […]

John Feffer

China
Mad World: Global Flashpoints to watch in 2023 in the Era of ‘Polycrisis’

Mad World: Global Flashpoints to watch in 2023 in the Era of ‘Polycrisis’

By Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – When 2022 began, there was trepidation about what might happen in at least ten […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Past 8 Years have been Hottest on Record, probably Hottest since Time of Christ

Past 8 Years have been Hottest on Record, probably Hottest since Time of Christ

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The past 8 years are the hottest on record. So concludes The UN’s World Meteorological Organization. In 2022, the average […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Criticizing Israel:  Letter to the President of Harvard University regarding Kenneth Roth

Criticizing Israel: Letter to the President of Harvard University regarding Kenneth Roth

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Lawrence S. Bacow President, Harvard University president@harvard.edu   Dear President Bacow:   […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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