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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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Germany's solar PV expansion soars by over 20%, but incoming Government will need to do more

Germany’s solar PV expansion soars by over 20%, but incoming Government will need to do more

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – The construction of new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in Germany has grown by 22 percent […]

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Climate Crisis
Scientists: Slashing Methane Emissions key to avoiding Horrifying Frankenclimate Tipping Point

Scientists: Slashing Methane Emissions key to avoiding Horrifying Frankenclimate Tipping Point

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Fiona Harvey at The Guardian reports that the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report due out Monday will […]

Juan Cole

Haredim
Israeli Olympic Gold Medalist Isn’t “Jewish Enough” to Marry in Israel

Israeli Olympic Gold Medalist Isn’t “Jewish Enough” to Marry in Israel

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – How convenient that the dynamic of sports and politics now collides with the question of “Who is a […]

H. Scott Prosterman

China
On China, Biden is continuing Trump's Zero-Sum Vision of the World when our Crises demand a Win-Win Approach

On China, Biden is continuing Trump’s Zero-Sum Vision of the World when our Crises demand a Win-Win Approach

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – Regarding China, Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Team has embraced the zero-sum rhetoric of the Trump administration. That approach […]

Martin Powers

Authoritarianism
Tunisia: the complex issues behind the presidential power-grab

Tunisia: the complex issues behind the presidential power-grab

By Mariam Salehi | – Ten years on from the Arab uprisings, Tunisia has often been presented as a rare success story. Elsewhere Egypt sank […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Biden's Moonshot:  America's Cars are going Electric, "Fast!" with Union Labor

Biden’s Moonshot: America’s Cars are going Electric, “Fast!” with Union Labor

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Joe Biden is good at multi-tasking. His announcement on Thursday that he wants 50% of all cars sold in the […]

Juan Cole

Japan
On Anniversary of U.S. Nuking of Hiroshima, can we Learn from the Forests?

On Anniversary of U.S. Nuking of Hiroshima, can we Learn from the Forests?

(Special to Informed Comment) – On August 6 and 9 throughout the world, people will commemorate the hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who died—crushed, […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Militarization
The Other Big Lie: For 30 Years, we’ve sent our Troops into Unwinnable Wars

The Other Big Lie: For 30 Years, we’ve sent our Troops into Unwinnable Wars

( Tomdispatch.com) – “The thirty-year interregnum of U.S. global hegemony,” writes David Bromwich in the journal Raritan, “has been exposed as a fraud, a decoy, […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Anti-Vaccination
Demented DeSantis denounces "Hysteria" over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Demented DeSantis denounces “Hysteria” over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Just like the noble from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who read so many chivalric romances that he […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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