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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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'Hopeless And Dissatisfied': Growing Anger At Iranian Officials As Khuzestan Water Protests Spread

‘Hopeless And Dissatisfied’: Growing Anger At Iranian Officials As Khuzestan Water Protests Spread

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Mohammad Zarghami | – ( RFE/RL) – Analysts say economic desperation and growing frustration in Iranian society have led to angry […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Agriculture
More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the Climate Crisis is Worsening despite Politicians' "Commitments"

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the Climate Crisis is Worsening despite Politicians’ “Commitments”

By Thomas Newsome, Christopher Wolf, and William Ripple | ( The Conversation) – Back in 2019, more than 11,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency. […]

The Conversation

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Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch conducted a detailed study of military actions by Israel and the Hamas party-militia in Gaza and concluded […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

By Homa Hoodfar and Mona Tajali | – The Taliban insurgents continue their deadly war to seize control of Afghanistan after the departure of United […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – By essentially rejecting the provisions of the U.S.Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, a very well designed […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

al-Qaeda
Imperial Overstretch:  Is the American Empire going the way of the Soviet Union?

Imperial Overstretch: Is the American Empire going the way of the Soviet Union?

By Tom Engelhardt | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn't

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Ben and Jerry's Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

Ben and Jerry’s Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

By Sari Bashi | Special Advisor, Program Office | – Published in: Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) ( Human Rights Watch ) – […]

Human Rights Watch

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