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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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Don’t Let Wall Street Get Rich Speculating on our Water

Don’t Let Wall Street Get Rich Speculating on our Water

( Otherwords.org ) – Shameless speculators are trying to privatize and commoditize the water all humans need to live. By Jim Hightower | April 28, […]

Jim Hightower

Batteries
Delivery Trucks are beginning to go electric: And swappable Batteries Help

Delivery Trucks are beginning to go electric: And swappable Batteries Help

By Gail Broadbent and Graciela Metternicht | – Australia’s trucking industry is making moves to go electric. The latest development — a system for using […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli security forces arrest Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi in Ramallah: Must disclose his Location, Charges

Israeli security forces arrest Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi in Ramallah: Must disclose his Location, Charges

( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Israeli authorities should immediately make public any charges against Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi and disclose where he is being […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Batteries
It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sammy Roth at the LA Times/ Boiling Point Newsletter reports that California’s main power grid was powered for several hours […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How the US is shielding Israel from Apartheid charges and itself from complicity charges

How the US is shielding Israel from Apartheid charges and itself from complicity charges

( Middle East Monitor) – The Palestinians mentioned apartheid in connection with Israel long before B’Tselem used the description. Now it is the turn of […]

Ramona Wadi

Far Right
Violent Extremism: QAnon and the offline dangers of online speech

Violent Extremism: QAnon and the offline dangers of online speech

By Chandell Gosse and Jaigris Hodson | – The new docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, is an investigation into the QAnon conspiracy theory and the […]

The Conversation

Militarization
No, getting out of Afghanistan doesn’t end America’s Forever Wars:  A Lifetime “at War”

No, getting out of Afghanistan doesn’t end America’s Forever Wars: A Lifetime “at War”

( Tomdispatch.com ) Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Why Jerusalem is Sacred to Muslims, and why even the Emirates are Rebuking Israel for Persecuting Palestinians There

Why Jerusalem is Sacred to Muslims, and why even the Emirates are Rebuking Israel for Persecuting Palestinians There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began Monday, April 12, and for the succeeding week and a half there […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Biden's first 100 days show a president in a hurry and willing to be bold

Biden’s first 100 days show a president in a hurry and willing to be bold

By Bruce Wolpe | – Joseph R. Biden Jr is the most experienced person to become president in US history. A senator for 36 years, […]

The Conversation

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