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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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COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

By Fergus Green, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Stockholm Environment Institute | – (The Conversation) – The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once […]

The Conversation

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Thanksgiving:  The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

By Fred Petrossian | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – It has been eight weeks since protests erupted across Iran on September 16 in response to […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When I became a climate organizer in college in the early 2000s, the words “youth […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
From Sponge Cities to Early Wildfire Detection Systems:  Top 4 Ways Climate-fuelled Disasters can be Thwarted

From Sponge Cities to Early Wildfire Detection Systems: Top 4 Ways Climate-fuelled Disasters can be Thwarted

By Roslyn Prinsley, Australian National University | – Climate change is driving a worldwide increase in extreme events. The latest State of the Climate report […]

The Conversation

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Israel has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions is Growing Rapidly: Report

Israel has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions is Growing Rapidly: Report

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran's Athletes, Including Soccer Players at World Cup, are Boycotting National Anthem to Support Protests

Iran’s Athletes, Including Soccer Players at World Cup, are Boycotting National Anthem to Support Protests

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here’s what I’ve been following during the past week and what I’m watching for in the days ahead. ( RFE/ […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Climate Crisis
After Failures of COP27, only a Radical Effort to Slash CO2 can keep Climate from Going Chaotic

After Failures of COP27, only a Radical Effort to Slash CO2 can keep Climate from Going Chaotic

By Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University | – The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
How the Bush "War on Terror" Fed US White Nationalism and brought the Terror Home

How the Bush “War on Terror” Fed US White Nationalism and brought the Terror Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, an agent of the Department of Homeland Security called me and started asking questions about a childhood acquaintance being investigated […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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