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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
European Union

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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Why Google's Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data

Why Google’s Plans for a Saudi-Based Cloud are So Dangerous: Riyadh may demand Private Customer Data

By Dahlia Kholaif | – ( Global Voices ) – Tech giant Google plans to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Access […]

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The Claudius Presidency

The Claudius Presidency

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Caligula was by all accounts a nasty piece of work. During the nearly four years that he ruled over […]

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Economy
Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right

Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right

By Gordon Walker | – An unprecedented cold wave in the US state of Texas recently left several million households without power for days on […]

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African-Americans
Is Harvard denying Tenure to Cornel West over his views on Palestine?

Is Harvard denying Tenure to Cornel West over his views on Palestine?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maximilien Alvarez writing at The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews eminent Black philosopher Cornel West on the latter being denied […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile

Imagining Palestine: Literature and the Language of Exile

( Middle East Monitor ) – For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to […]

Ramzy Baroud

Acidification of Oceans
Saving the Planet: Why a net-zero future depends on the ocean's ability to absorb carbon

Saving the Planet: Why a net-zero future depends on the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon

By Anya M. Waite, Brad deYoung, Chris Milley, and Ian G. Stewart | – Most of us growing up along Canada’s East Coast never worried […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Covid-19 Demonstrated How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net

Covid-19 Demonstrated How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net

( Tomdispatch.com) – Economic crises shine a spotlight on a society’s inequities and hierarchies, as well as its commitment to support those who are most […]

Rajan Menon

Epidemics
President Biden Honors 500K Dead.  He didn't say so, but they didn't have to Die

President Biden Honors 500K Dead. He didn’t say so, but they didn’t have to Die

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden on Monday honored the deaths of 500,000 Americans from COVID-19. It is a very large number, and commentator […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How the Israeli Occupation has devastated the Palestinian Economy

How the Israeli Occupation has devastated the Palestinian Economy

( Al-Shabakah) – The Israeli occupation has crippled Palestinian productive sectors, leading to the dominance of internal trade in the Palestinian economy. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, […]

Ibrahim Saleh

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