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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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China
The Lion & the Dragon: Understanding the New Iran-China Strategic Partnership

The Lion & the Dragon: Understanding the New Iran-China Strategic Partnership

Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment) – On July 11, the New York Times reported on the Iran-China new economic and security partnership, detailed […]

Ali Abootalebi

Christianity
White too Long? Why is Racism so much stronger among White Christians than among Unchurched Whites?

White too Long? Why is Racism so much stronger among White Christians than among Unchurched Whites?

Racism is much stronger among America’s white Christians than among churchless whites – and it always has been. That’s the message of a new book […]

James A. Haught

Culture
Leon Fleisher – the Pianist Who Reinvented Himself and Inspired the World

Leon Fleisher – the Pianist Who Reinvented Himself and Inspired the World

It was a sad day for the music world when we heard that concert pianist, conductor, and teacher par excellence Leon Fleisher died on August […]

Shamai Leibowitz

Corruption
How did Americans become such Wimps?  Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud

How did Americans become such Wimps? Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicole Winfield and Lisa Marie Pane at the Associated Press write at the unbelief with which Europeans are staring at […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Top Six Lessons of Beirut and Hiroshima

Top Six Lessons of Beirut and Hiroshima

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Did the massive explosion in Beirut, about three quarters of a century after the decimation of Hiroshima […]

John Buell

Epidemics
Not just the Lungs: How COVID-19 might increase risk of Brain Inflammation and loss of Clear Thinking

Not just the Lungs: How COVID-19 might increase risk of Brain Inflammation and loss of Clear Thinking

By Natalie C. Tronson | – Of all frightening ways that the SARS-COV-2 virus affects the body, one of the more insidious is the effect […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
OK, Boomers: Will the America we die in be unprecedentedly Hot, Racist, Unequal, Sickly and Authoritarian?

OK, Boomers: Will the America we die in be unprecedentedly Hot, Racist, Unequal, Sickly and Authoritarian?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me be blunt. This wasn’t the world I imagined for my denouement. Not faintly. Of course, I can’t claim I […]

Tom Engelhardt

Corruption
Beirut: 'Day of Judgment' Protesters Occupy Gov't Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections

Beirut: ‘Day of Judgment’ Protesters Occupy Gov’t Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced snap elections after a huge crowd of thousands gathered in downtown Beirut Saturday, confronting […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means: We may actually have 30 million Cases

What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means: We may actually have 30 million Cases

Melissa Hawkins | – Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions recently published a study which estimated that the true […]

The Conversation

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