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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

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Israeli Pegasus Spyware was used against Human Rights Watch Workers

Israeli Pegasus Spyware was used against Human Rights Watch Workers

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – The targeting of a Human Rights Watch staff member with Pegasus spyware underscores the urgent need to regulate […]

Human Rights Watch

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Joe Biden: a report card on the US president’s first year in office

Joe Biden: a report card on the US president’s first year in office

By Clodagh Harrington and Alex Waddan | – When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th US president in January 2021, 51.3% of American […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How Trump appeased Putin and Endangered Peace in Ukraine

How Trump appeased Putin and Endangered Peace in Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I don’t approve of all the loud saber-rattling in Washington on Russia. For reasons I’ll explain below, I nevertheless don’t […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Have Sinema and Manchin Tolled the death Knell of Free and Fair Elections for a Decade?

Have Sinema and Manchin Tolled the death Knell of Free and Fair Elections for a Decade?

Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment) – In this Brave New World of evolving lexicons, “gerrymandering,” a dirty word to begin with; has become a […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Agriculture
With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble adapting to climate change

With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble adapting to climate change

By Evan Fricke, Alejandro Ordonez, Haldre Rogers, and Jens-Christian Svenning | – Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does […]

The Conversation

Counter-Terrorism
The Pentagon We Don’t Think About: A New Perspective on the Department of Homeland Security

The Pentagon We Don’t Think About: A New Perspective on the Department of Homeland Security

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – A relative of mine, who works for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) compiling data on […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency Parable: Mammoth Iceberg that broke free from Antarctica Dumps 168 billion tons of Water in South Atlantic

Climate Emergency Parable: Mammoth Iceberg that broke free from Antarctica Dumps 168 billion tons of Water in South Atlantic

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anne Braakmann-Folgmann et al. in an article for Remote Sensing of the Environment observed by satellite the now-disintegrated Iceberg A68A […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Uproar In Turkey over Gov't Prioritizing a Name change for the Country over Sinking Economy  #helloTürkiye

Uproar In Turkey over Gov’t Prioritizing a Name change for the Country over Sinking Economy #helloTürkiye

( Globalvoices.org ) – Turkey’s Communications Directorate launched a new campaign #helloTürkiye on January 14, in an attempt to “raise global awareness about using the […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Afghanistan
Afghan Women’s Rights Activists Forcibly Disappeared (HRW)

Afghan Women’s Rights Activists Forcibly Disappeared (HRW)

By Patricia Gossman | Associate Asia Director | ( Human Rights Watch ) – The Taliban’s response to the apparent enforced disappearance of Tamana Paryani, […]

Human Rights Watch

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