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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
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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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Far Right
Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

By Matthew Valasik, University of Alabama; and Shannon Reid, University of North Carolina – Charlotte | – As the House Select Committee prepares to begin […]

The Conversation

Education
What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?

What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the last week of her life, my mother extracted a promise from me. “Make sure,” she said, “that Orion goes […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
European Parliament bans New Gasoline Cars in 13 Years for 449 Million People, to fight Climate Emergency and Russia

European Parliament bans New Gasoline Cars in 13 Years for 449 Million People, to fight Climate Emergency and Russia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Margaux Otter at L’Obs reports that on Wednesday, the European Parliament voted to ban the sale of new internal combustion […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iran: 1988 Mass Executions Evident Crimes Against Humanity: Senior Officials Implicated Should Be Investigated, Fairly Prosecuted (HRW)

Iran: 1988 Mass Executions Evident Crimes Against Humanity: Senior Officials Implicated Should Be Investigated, Fairly Prosecuted (HRW)

Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) – Overwhelming evidence shows that the Iranian authorities’ mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 amounts to crimes […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t

‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t

By Donna Katzin and William Minter | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Media, politicians, and policymakers tend to focus on the most visible […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Antarctica
Ice world: Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is under assault from below and losing its grip

Ice world: Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is under assault from below and losing its grip

By Ted Scambos, University of Colorado Boulder | – Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic […]

The Conversation

Featured
Israel's Crisis in Parliament is a Crisis for its Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank

Israel’s Crisis in Parliament is a Crisis for its Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday evening, the government of Naftali Bennett in Israel failed to pass a crucial law in parliament, according to […]

Juan Cole

Guns
What Can Be Said After So Much Grief, so Many Guns?

What Can Be Said After So Much Grief, so Many Guns?

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What more can be said with so much grief, after the spate of recent gun violence around the […]

Hugh J. Curran

Iran
'New Phase Of Assassinations': Mysterious Death Of Iranian Aerospace Engineer Fuels Speculation

‘New Phase Of Assassinations’: Mysterious Death Of Iranian Aerospace Engineer Fuels Speculation

( RFE/RL ) – When Iranian aerospace engineer Ayoob Entezari died on May 31, authorities handed his family a letter of appreciation in which they […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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