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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
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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

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September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – In one of his interviews before the Taliban retook Afghanistan, John Bolton, Trump’s […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

al-Qaeda
9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

By Roberto Lucchini | – ( The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

By Alie Komape | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When you do an online search for South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the […]

Middle East Monitor

al-Qaeda
Think Again: 9/11

Think Again: 9/11

“Think Again: 9/11,” by Juan Cole. Published in Foreign Policy No. 156 (Sep. – Oct., 2006), pp. 26-28, 30, 32. Copyright Foreign Policy, all rights […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

By Hanif Sufizada | – Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: […]

The Conversation

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“That night, I became a climate Refugee:”  The Dixie Fire and our Hot Future

“That night, I became a climate Refugee:” The Dixie Fire and our Hot Future

ByJane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – GREENVILLE, CA — At 10 a.m. on July 22nd, I interviewed a New York University professor about […]

Tomdispatch

Afghanistan
How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?

How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | – ( Code Pink | – Looking back on it now, the 1990s were an age […]

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

Afghanistan
No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas  -- as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas — as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan has provoked a tidal wave of punditry about what it says […]

Juan Cole

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After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival in New Orleans

After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival in New Orleans

By Jordan Flaherty | – ( Waging Nonviolence) | – In the aftermath of disasters, those most in need are also who the state often […]

Waging Nonviolence

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