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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
European Union

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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It isn't Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too

It isn’t Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ryan Lucas and Carrie Johnson at NPR report that on Tuesday, a jury convicted five leaders of the fascist Oath […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Are Israel's Nuclear Weapons -- an Open Secret -- the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?

Are Israel’s Nuclear Weapons — an Open Secret — the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?

( Middle East Monitor ) – As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, […]

Ramzy Baroud

Feminism
Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

By Negar Partow, Massey University | – (The Conversation) – The ongoing protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the […]

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Donald Trump
The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over

The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Just in case you didn’t notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An […]

Tomdispatch

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Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity

Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So Noam is a far right Jewish fundamentalist party in Israel that has a connection to the Har Hamor seminary […]

Juan Cole

China
A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”

A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Dear Joe, Remember the mid-March snowball fight with some boys in our 8th grade class at St Helena’s […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Climate Crisis
To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas

To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas

By Daniel Skerritt, University of British Columbia and Claire Huang, Duke University | – Environmental disaster struck the shores of Peru on Jan. 15, 2022, […]

The Conversation

Israel
Israel Must not Include Fascist Parties in its New Government:  L.A. Jews for Peace

Israel Must not Include Fascist Parties in its New Government: L.A. Jews for Peace

LA Jews for Peace Policy Statement Los Angeles, CA. November 28, 2022 Contact: info@LAJewsforPeace.org Israel must not include Fascist Parties in its New Government LA […]

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Could Iran's Kurdish Protests and the Ayatollahs' Determination to Crush Them Destabilize Neighboring Iraq?

Could Iran’s Kurdish Protests and the Ayatollahs’ Determination to Crush Them Destabilize Neighboring Iraq?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The protests roiling Iran this fall have had an epicenter in Iranian Kurdistan in the west of the country. The […]

Juan Cole

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