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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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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

Corporations
Parasitic Private Equity is Consuming U.S. Health Care from the Inside Out

Parasitic Private Equity is Consuming U.S. Health Care from the Inside Out

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – Private equity has succeeded in depicting itself as part of the productive economy of health care services. even […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Australia
First-Nations-Led Youth Win Climate/ Human Rights Case against Mammoth Coal Mine in Australia

First-Nations-Led Youth Win Climate/ Human Rights Case against Mammoth Coal Mine in Australia

By Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland | – In a historic ruling today, a Queensland court has said the massive Clive Palmer-owned Galilee Basin […]

Juan Cole

China
What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?  Imagining a Necessary Future

What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change? Imagining a Necessary Future

( Tomdispatch.com) – As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” […]

Michael T. Klare

Culture
The Other Iran: Veiling and Puritanism vs. the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Other Iran: Veiling and Puritanism vs. the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The ongoing rallies and demonstrations that have wracked Iran since mid-September have been many things. It is a women’s protest […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Inequality Kills. But We Can Stop the Killing

Inequality Kills. But We Can Stop the Killing

( Inequality.org ) – Over a half-century ago, back in the mid-1960s, books about poverty abounded. But publishers paid relatively little attention to wealth’s concentration. […]

Sam Pizzigati

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