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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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Auditor says Trump admin. knew ‘zero-tolerance’ would separate children from parents at border

Auditor says Trump admin. knew ‘zero-tolerance’ would separate children from parents at border

By Ryan Knappenberger | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions knew the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy would separate families […]

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Democracy
America's Transition Away from Democracy and the World's Wave of De-Democratization

America’s Transition Away from Democracy and the World’s Wave of De-Democratization

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The twentieth century was in the eyes of some observers an uneven but steady march to democracy. Those who study […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
America after Trump must Confront MLK’s ‘Giant Triplets of Racism, Extreme Materialism, and Militarism’

America after Trump must Confront MLK’s ‘Giant Triplets of Racism, Extreme Materialism, and Militarism’

By Andrew Bacevich | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – When Martin Luther King preached his famous sermon “Beyond Vietnam” at Riverside Church in New York City […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Feminism
Saudi Arabia releases Women's Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul but Bans her Travel

Saudi Arabia releases Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul but Bans her Travel

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities released from prison the prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul on February 10, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. However, she […]

Human Rights Watch

Health Care
Public option in Biden plan could change the face of US health care

Public option in Biden plan could change the face of US health care

By Michael Williams | – President Joe Biden issued 10 executive orders to fight COVID-19 on his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021. […]

The Conversation

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Top 5 Reasons for Biden to snub Israel's Netanyahu, whom he still hasn't Called

Top 5 Reasons for Biden to snub Israel’s Netanyahu, whom he still hasn’t Called

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Danny Danon, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, impatiently tweeted a list of all the foreign leaders that President […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Not just a US Domestic Threat:  Beating Back the Far Right Globally

Not just a US Domestic Threat: Beating Back the Far Right Globally

It’s time to resurrect a global anti-fascist consensus to name, shame, and throw these guys out of the game. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – […]

John Feffer

Authoritarianism
Saudi Arabia: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

Saudi Arabia: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

( Middle East Monitor ) – The phone call to the family lasted just one minute. It came 23 months after aid worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan […]

Bill Law

Arab Spring
Mideast Regimes met the Arab Spring youth with Iron Fists and Sectarianization, but anti-Corruption Protests Continue

Mideast Regimes met the Arab Spring youth with Iron Fists and Sectarianization, but anti-Corruption Protests Continue

Simon Mabon | – As the popular refrain of “ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam” rang out across the Middle East in the early months of 2011, […]

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