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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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The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts: Our Economic and Racial Divides grew Wider in 2021

The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts: Our Economic and Racial Divides grew Wider in 2021

Blogging Our Great Divide by Sarah Anderson Brian Wakamo | – A year ago we had such high hopes. We expected the Covid vaccine rollout […]

Inequality.org

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US-Backed Al-Sisi's Gov't in Egypt Unjustly Sentences Dissidents to Years in Prison for "Spreading False News"

US-Backed Al-Sisi’s Gov’t in Egypt Unjustly Sentences Dissidents to Years in Prison for “Spreading False News”

( Human Rights Watch – An emergency court sentenced Alaa Abd al Fattah to five years in prison, and Mohamed al-Baqer and Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim […]

Human Rights Watch

Carbon Footprint
Don’t care about the Build Back Better Act? Hearing People’s personal Stories might change that

Don’t care about the Build Back Better Act? Hearing People’s personal Stories might change that

By Angela Bradbery | – When U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said that he wouldn’t support President Joe Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, he […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Revenge is a Dish best Served Green:  Biden could get around Manchin with GOP Senators Supporting Wind, Solar, Battery

Revenge is a Dish best Served Green: Biden could get around Manchin with GOP Senators Supporting Wind, Solar, Battery

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Joe Manchin has attempted completely to shoot down the Build Back Better bill, underlining the thin legislative margin with […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Is the Return of Dictatorship in Tunisia the end of the Arab Spring Youth Movements?

Is the Return of Dictatorship in Tunisia the end of the Arab Spring Youth Movements?

By Yosr Jouini | – ( Globalvoices.org) – On July 25, 2021, Tunisian President-elect Kais Said announced the dismissal of the prime minister, a freeze […]

Global Voices

Environment
Biden, Infrastructure Law in Hand, Will at Last replace all Poisonous Lead Water Pipes from Coast to Coast

Biden, Infrastructure Law in Hand, Will at Last replace all Poisonous Lead Water Pipes from Coast to Coast

By Gabriel Filippelli | – The Biden administration has released a plan to accelerate removal of lead water pipes and lead paint from U.S. homes. […]

The Conversation

Environment
Let's de-commercialize Christmas this Year and give our Kids the Gift of a Liveable Earth

Let’s de-commercialize Christmas this Year and give our Kids the Gift of a Liveable Earth

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Confession time: this year, I don’t want to buy my kids anything for Christmas. Big one, right? Okay, let me soften […]

Frida Berrigan

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Israeli Squatter-Settler Mobs attack Palestinian Hamlets, wrecking Cars and Homes and Hospitalizing 2

Israeli Squatter-Settler Mobs attack Palestinian Hamlets, wrecking Cars and Homes and Hospitalizing 2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Quds reports that on Saturday, Israeli squatter-settler mobs assembled outside Palestinian hamlets in the suburbs of Nablus, near the settlement […]

Juan Cole

Congress
In First, the US Congress has Voted to Combat Islamophobia: What implications for Biden's Foreign Policy?

In First, the US Congress has Voted to Combat Islamophobia: What implications for Biden’s Foreign Policy?

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Judging by this week’s close vote on combating Islamophobia, and sensational revelations by a […]

Middle East Monitor

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