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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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Asian-Americans
Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it's not a hate crime

Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime

By Pawan Dhingra | – Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Can Gaza’s Venerable Almond Groves survive the Israeli Occupation?

Can Gaza’s Venerable Almond Groves survive the Israeli Occupation?

By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor) – As we headed to the east of Deir AlBalah, a town in the middle of […]

Middle East Monitor

Internet
Is Facebook Collaborating with Turkey to Censor Free Expression?

Is Facebook Collaborating with Turkey to Censor Free Expression?

By Jack Gillum | – ( ProPublica) – Facebook’s move to censor social media posts of a Syrian militia group in 2018 at the request […]

ProPublica

Asian-Americans
Attacks on Asian Americans are Rooted in over a Century of Racist Exclusion

Attacks on Asian Americans are Rooted in over a Century of Racist Exclusion

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The spine-chilling attacks on Asian-Americans around the country, in San Francisco, New York, and now most bloodily in Atlanta, are […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Biden branded Putin a Murderer, but can he get out of Afghanistan without Russian Help?

Biden branded Putin a Murderer, but can he get out of Afghanistan without Russian Help?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia and the United States may be bitter geopolitical rivals, but sometimes, when they have a common interest they […]

Nikola Mikovic

Epidemics
The Sports Pages of Death:  Life in a Wounded and Wounding Land

The Sports Pages of Death: Life in a Wounded and Wounding Land

( Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s one of the things I now do every morning. I go to the online Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and check […]

Tom Engelhardt

Jewish History
Startling Discovery of New Dead Sea Scrolls sheds light on Jewish Revolts against Imperial Rome

Startling Discovery of New Dead Sea Scrolls sheds light on Jewish Revolts against Imperial Rome

By Gareth Wearne | – On Tuesday news broke of the discovery of fresh fragments of a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll in Israel. The fragments were […]

The Conversation

Peace
In honor of St.Patrick at Lough Derg: In search of Tolerance and Kindness

In honor of St.Patrick at Lough Derg: In search of Tolerance and Kindness

By Hugh Curran | – (Special to Informed Comment) – St.Patrick’s Purgatory at Lough Derg was first written about in the 11th century as one […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Yemenis face Famine of the Century and Mass Starvation unless President Biden pressures Saudis to Stop Port Blockade

Yemenis face Famine of the Century and Mass Starvation unless President Biden pressures Saudis to Stop Port Blockade

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The head of the UN World Food Program, David Beasley said at a news conference this week covered by al-`Arabi […]

Juan Cole

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