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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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Afghanistan
Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What a way to end a war! Apologies all around! We’re so damn sorry — or actually, maybe not! I’m thinking, […]

Tom Engelhardt

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In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for "crossing all red Lines"

In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for “crossing all red Lines”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in his address to the U.N. General […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Are the Taliban Russia's Problem now?  Moscow Rushes to Arm Tajikistan

Are the Taliban Russia’s Problem now? Moscow Rushes to Arm Tajikistan

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Tensions rise between the Taliban – the de facto rulers of Afghanistan – and neighboring Russia-backed Tajikistan. The radical […]

Nikola Mikovic

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

By Aseel Kabariti | – Gaza ( We Are Not Numbers) – Child labor takes many forms. Many people picture a child in a factory, […]

We are not Numbers

Crime
More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

By Justin Nix | – Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of "Abraham Accords"

Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of “Abraham Accords”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The so-called Abraham Accords, which take the patriarch’s name in vain, were about many things, but genuine peace was not […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
If even the Democratic Party can't raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

If even the Democratic Party can’t raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The struggle over efforts to revise and reform the tax code offers left and labor activists as […]

John Buell

African-Americans
Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

By Karen Musalo | – The U.S.’s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration’s “inhumane” treatment of Haitian […]

The Conversation

Drones
The Names You’ll Never Know:  A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

The Names You’ll Never Know: A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

( Tomdispatch.com) – As a parting shot, on its way out of Afghanistan, the United States military launched a drone attack that the Pentagon called […]

Nick Turse

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