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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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Authoritarianism
Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

By Craig Silverman, ProPublica, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post, Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post | – Co-published with The Washington […]

ProPublica

African-Americans
Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death

Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death

By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Everything that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., struggled for is at risk in today’s America, where one of the […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

By Anthony Siracusa | – On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into law […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Why we Really need King's "Testament of Hope" right about Now

Why we Really need King’s “Testament of Hope” right about Now

By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | – ( Otherwords.org ) – 2022 has begun with melancholy, as our country sees the pandemic reach new heights. Meanwhile our […]

OtherWords

Central Asia
Eurasia’s Ring of Fire:  The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power

Eurasia’s Ring of Fire: The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Throughout 2021, Americans were absorbed in arguments over mask mandates, school closings, and the meaning of the January 6th attack on […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Tonga's Volcanic Tsunami floods Capital, foreshadowing effects of Glacier Melt from our CO2

Tonga’s Volcanic Tsunami floods Capital, foreshadowing effects of Glacier Melt from our CO2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A massive eruption in an undersea volcano, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai, 40 miles north of the South Pacific island of […]

Juan Cole

Germany
Renewables supplied 46% of net public power in Germany in 2021, 40.9% of Gross

Renewables supplied 46% of net public power in Germany in 2021, 40.9% of Gross

NB: “In 2020, renewable energy sources (including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy) generated . . . about 21% of all the electricity generated […]

Clean Energy Wire

al-Qaeda
Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline

Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline

By Walden Bello | – The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take stock of the […]

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