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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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Race, Religion and Whoopi Goldberg: Her Mistake on Judaism Pales before that of Trump

Race, Religion and Whoopi Goldberg: Her Mistake on Judaism Pales before that of Trump

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – It’s time to stop flogging Whoopi Goldberg, and re-examine the semantics of Judaism as a race or religion. […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Climate Crisis
Solarpunk: Visions of a just, nature-positive world

Solarpunk: Visions of a just, nature-positive world

By Joe Coroneo-Seaman | – ( China Dialogue ) – “It is 2050. In most places in the world, the air is moist and fresh, […]

China Dialogue

Nonviolence
The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough: The Wars We Couldn’t End

The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough: The Wars We Couldn’t End

By Nan Levinson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I urge my writing students to juice up their stories, I tell them about “disruptive […]

Tomdispatch

Authoritarianism
Beer Hall Putsch 2.0: Republican Nat'l Committee Channels their inner Hitler in defending Capitol Insurrectionists

Beer Hall Putsch 2.0: Republican Nat’l Committee Channels their inner Hitler in defending Capitol Insurrectionists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican National Committee’s censure of Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) slammed the two for “participating in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel lost the War of Words over its Apartheid

How Israel lost the War of Words over its Apartheid

( Middle East Monitor ) – Who wrote the following quote? “Whereas the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid in South Africa, for example, brazenly proclaimed their […]

Asa Winstanley

censorship
Banned Books Should Be Required Reading

Banned Books Should Be Required Reading

( Otherwords.org ) The people who want to ban Maus or The 1619 Project are the ones who need to read them. By Olivia Alperstein […]

Olivia Alperstein

Afghanistan
Suicide Bomber Who Killed U.S. Troops and Afghans “Likely” Used Unguarded Route to Kabul Airport Gate

Suicide Bomber Who Killed U.S. Troops and Afghans “Likely” Used Unguarded Route to Kabul Airport Gate

By Brian J. Conley, Mohammad J. Alizada, Samira Nuhzat, Abdul Ahad Poya and Mirzahussain Sadid, Alive in Afghanistan, Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien | – […]

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Is Peace on the Verge of breaking out between US and Iran?  Biden waives some Trump-Era Sanctions

Is Peace on the Verge of breaking out between US and Iran? Biden waives some Trump-Era Sanctions

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera English reports that the Biden administration has restored a key waiver for Iran’s civilian nuclear energy program that […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany's Solar PV capacity, at 59 Gigs, overtakes its Onshore Wind, as it aims to triple Both

Germany’s Solar PV capacity, at 59 Gigs, overtakes its Onshore Wind, as it aims to triple Both

By Jessica Bateman and Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The total solar PV capacity in Germany has reached 59 gigawatts […]

Clean Energy Wire

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