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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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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 […]

Basav Sen

Afghanistan
Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

( Tomidispatch.com ) – In the first two months of Joe Biden’s presidency, you could feel the country holding its breath. Sheltered in place, hidden […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Featured
It doesn't have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258

It doesn’t have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258

Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, in Atlanta and Boulder. The main similarities of the two are that the young alleged murderers easily […]

Juan Cole

Asian-Americans
On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women

On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women

An Thuy Nguyen | – Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The deadly mass shooting on March 16 targeting Asian American women working at […]

An Thuy Nguyen

Inequality
On Tax Day, the Billionaires must Start Paying their Fair Share

On Tax Day, the Billionaires must Start Paying their Fair Share

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions. Elephants occupy […]

H. Patricia Hynes

History
A New History of the Prophet of Islamﷺ –  Juan Cole interviewed by Hamza Yusuf

A New History of the Prophet of Islamﷺ – Juan Cole interviewed by Hamza Yusuf

Juan Cole interviewed by Hamza Yusuf at Renovatio about the book: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires Available at Nicola’s Books in […]

Juan Cole

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