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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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Authoritarianism
Did Egypt's Military Dictatorship lead to the Suez Canal Ship-Blocking Crisis?

Did Egypt’s Military Dictatorship lead to the Suez Canal Ship-Blocking Crisis?

By Ibrahim Al-Tahir | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The world is closely following the details of the Suez Canal obstruction, a canal through […]

Middle East Monitor

Corruption
Could Dominion and Smartmatic take down Fox News for Libel and Reckless Disregard for the Truth?

Could Dominion and Smartmatic take down Fox News for Libel and Reckless Disregard for the Truth?

By Nancy Costello | – Free speech advocates have long believed that suing a news organization threatens free speech. Democracy needs a press to be […]

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Climate Crisis
Scotland is First Industrialized country to generate 97.4% of Electricity From Wind and Solar

Scotland is First Industrialized country to generate 97.4% of Electricity From Wind and Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In 2011, Scotland’s government, urged on by visionaries like Richard Dixon, set itself the ambitious goal to get 100% of […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Ten years after the Arab Spring, Libya has another chance for peace

Ten years after the Arab Spring, Libya has another chance for peace

By Brian McQuinn | – Ten years ago, the United Nation’s no-fly zone over Libya marked the beginning of the Libyan revolution and the West’s […]

The Conversation

Iran
Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

By Manon Dark | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The current controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is one of Trump’s lingering foreign policy […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables

Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables

By Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020 – the […]

Clean Energy Wire

Cold War
Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History

Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The super-super tanker Ever Given is stuck kitty-corner in the Suez Canal, having apparently run up on a sand bar. […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren't going Quietly

Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren’t going Quietly

By Devran Gule and Leïla Choukroune | – In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – This March, the leading global consulting firm IHS Markit held its CERAWeek conference, billed as the ​“world’s premier energy […]

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