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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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In Bid to shut down New England’s last coal plant: Kayaktivists and Garden Blockaders try to Save Planet

In Bid to shut down New England’s last coal plant: Kayaktivists and Garden Blockaders try to Save Planet

Arnie Alpert | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – There’s one form of power that’s generated when hot water turns turbines to create electricity. There are […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Remembering Israel's Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem

Remembering Israel’s Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s seemingly never-ending drive to uproot Palestinians from their homes by force of arms […]

Middle East Monitor

Africa
Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa

Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa

By Oli Mould | – Director Denis Villeneuve’s most recent sci-fi epic is the latest attempt to tell the story of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed 1965 […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia may succeed in preventing Congress from legislating the quick demise of coal and gas […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Human Rights? Saudi Arabia put a Child Dissident on Death Row for 10 Years, but has Finally Released him

Human Rights? Saudi Arabia put a Child Dissident on Death Row for 10 Years, but has Finally Released him

By Bill Van Esveld | Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division | – Nearly ten years after Ali al-Nimr was arrested by Saudi authorities in […]

Human Rights Watch

African-Americans
Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home:  Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home: Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

By Mattea Kramer | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young […]

Tomdispatch

Denialism
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

By Benjamin Franta | – Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab48 reports that Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new housing units for squatters on Palestinian-owned land in […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East?  New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East? New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

( Al-Bab.com) – New Covid-19 cases recorded in the Middle East and North Africa averaged 19,075 a day last week. This is the first time […]

Brian Whitaker

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