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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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"Chaos" in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis

“Chaos” in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds Al-Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] reports “chaos” in the Israeli parliament as it debated into the wee hours of Tuesday morning […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Thousands of Women protest Throughout Turkey as gov't withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Women's Rights

Thousands of Women protest Throughout Turkey as gov’t withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Women’s Rights

By Arzu Geybullayeva | ( Globalvoices.org) – Thousands of women marched across the largest cities in Turkey on July 1, to protest Turkey’s official withdrawal […]

Global Voices

Authoritarianism
How Florida's Political "Survey" of Universities threatens Freedom of Speech

How Florida’s Political “Survey” of Universities threatens Freedom of Speech

( Otherwords.org ) – Florida officials say they want to promote “intellectual freedom” — by using political surveys to target university funding. By Jill Richardson […]

Jill Richardson

Climate Crisis
Suburban living is the worst for carbon emissions – new research

Suburban living is the worst for carbon emissions – new research

By Sabrina Zwick | – ( The Conversation ) – Work, education, entertainment, or simply better connectivity all draw people to cities. By the end […]

The Conversation

Climate Change
Kuwait is the Hottest Place on Earth; Lytton, Canada was Right Behind it, and then it Burned Down; This is not Normal

Kuwait is the Hottest Place on Earth; Lytton, Canada was Right Behind it, and then it Burned Down; This is not Normal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mohammed Haddad at Al Jazeera English reports that in June, at least 23 countries experienced at least 122° F. (50° […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
By phasing out coal-fired plants -- Now! -- we can save millions of lives

By phasing out coal-fired plants — Now! — we can save millions of lives

( Sustainability Times ) – Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are driving climate change, which imperils the health of life on the planet […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Change
We Can't go Carbon Neutral without Reducing Plastics:  1 ton of plastic creates 5 tons of CO2 emissions

We Can’t go Carbon Neutral without Reducing Plastics: 1 ton of plastic creates 5 tons of CO2 emissions

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Avoiding and better managing plastic waste should receive much greater attention by the German […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Why We cannot meet sustainable development goals with a sick ocean

Why We cannot meet sustainable development goals with a sick ocean

By Josep Lluís Pelegrí Llopart | – The United Nations declared the start to the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development earlier this year. […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Top 5 Differences between the Fourth of July and the Capitol Insurrection

Top 5 Differences between the Fourth of July and the Capitol Insurrection

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. The Fourth of July celebrates a revolutionary event. January 6 was a counter-revolutionary event. Why do I say this? […]

Juan Cole

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