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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

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Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border

Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border

By Josue De Luna Navarro | ( Otherwords.org ) – Images of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Black migrants shocked many Americans. President Biden […]

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China
China: removing features from country’s biggest mosques the latest move in campaign of Muslim assimilation

China: removing features from country’s biggest mosques the latest move in campaign of Muslim assimilation

By David R. Stroup | In the normally quiet city of Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai province, everyday interactions between the city’s ethnic groups […]

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UN Turns back on War Crimes in Saudi-Led War on Yemen, as 16 million March toward Starvation

UN Turns back on War Crimes in Saudi-Led War on Yemen, as 16 million March toward Starvation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that on Thursday the UN Human Rights Council voted 21 to 18 with 7 abstentions against a […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Taliban Emirate of 'No'

The Taliban Emirate of ‘No’

( Jordan Times ) – The unclaimed murder last weekend of a journalist and two of his relatives while travelling in a car along a […]

Michael Jansen

Africa
Abdulrazak Gurnah: what you need to know about the Nobel Prize winner for Literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah: what you need to know about the Nobel Prize winner for Literature

By Melanie Otto | – Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, […]

The Conversation

al-Qaeda
Failures of 9/11 and the 20-year ‘War on Terror’: Being in the Washington Elite means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Failures of 9/11 and the 20-year ‘War on Terror’: Being in the Washington Elite means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

( Tomdispatch.com) – The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was marked by days of remembrances — for the courageous rescue workers of that moment, for […]

Karen J. Greenberg

China
Iran's Hard Line gov't Ebullient about higher Oil Prices, as China Defies US Sanctions on Tehran

Iran’s Hard Line gov’t Ebullient about higher Oil Prices, as China Defies US Sanctions on Tehran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran is a big beneficiary of the run-up in oil prices, with Brent crude hitting a multi-year high of $83 […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
Why Do so many in Congress resist funding Childcare But swoon over F-35s?

Why Do so many in Congress resist funding Childcare But swoon over F-35s?

( Code Pink) – President Biden and the Democratic Congress are facing a crisis as the popular domestic agenda they ran on in the 2020 […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Israel/ Palestine
Israel has a 'hands-off' approach with illegal Israeli squatters, but not with the Palestinians

Israel has a ‘hands-off’ approach with illegal Israeli squatters, but not with the Palestinians

By Osama Othman | – Settler violence against Palestinians has escalated during Israel’s “hands-off” approach in the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz. The Israeli […]

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