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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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The New Isolationism and the Distrustful Citizen:  Covid-19 and the end of Geopolitics

The New Isolationism and the Distrustful Citizen: Covid-19 and the end of Geopolitics

( Tomdispatch.com) – I don’t trust you. Don’t take it personally. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a friend or a stranger. I don’t care about […]

John Feffer

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Is Netanyahu Wagging the Dog with Claims of Hezbollah Clashes (Which Hezbollah doesn't Know about)?

Is Netanyahu Wagging the Dog with Claims of Hezbollah Clashes (Which Hezbollah doesn’t Know about)?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been virtually besieged in his prime ministerial mansion on Balfour Street in Jerusalem by […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel-Palestine between Hi-Tech Dystopian Apartheid and a State for all its Peoples

Israel-Palestine between Hi-Tech Dystopian Apartheid and a State for all its Peoples

( Al-Shabakah) – Palestinian futures have long been discussed without Palestinian input or within an imposed and limited framework. Indeed, most ideas of the future […]

Yara Hawari

Authoritarianism
Colonizing Portland:  How Trump's tactics Recall Worst Excesses of British Empire in places like Hong Kong

Colonizing Portland: How Trump’s tactics Recall Worst Excesses of British Empire in places like Hong Kong

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – When Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty in1997, the Western press loudly bemoaned the death of Democracy, but […]

Martin Powers

African-Americans
John Lewis knew that Democrats must build a Cross-Race Coalition against Plutocrats that Honors the Victimization of Minorities

John Lewis knew that Democrats must build a Cross-Race Coalition against Plutocrats that Honors the Victimization of Minorities

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Rep. John Lewis lay in state at the Capitol on Monday, after a lifetime devoted to racial […]

John Buell

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Coronavirus Protests against "Corrupt" Netanyahu Rock Israel, as cases per capita outstrip Brazil

Coronavirus Protests against “Corrupt” Netanyahu Rock Israel, as cases per capita outstrip Brazil

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in office continuously since 2009, is facing a perfect storm. His trial on corruption charges […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Beginning of the U.S.-Iran Hot War?

The Beginning of the U.S.-Iran Hot War?

Washington, DC (Special to Informed Comment) – “Americans should not blame others in vain,” Iranian general Esmail Gha’ani has declared, “this is a fire they […]

Sina Toossi

Christianity
Declining Religious Right could go down with Trump

Declining Religious Right could go down with Trump

Charleston, W.V. (Special to Informed Comment) – Barely three months from now, the 2020 election may reveal whether America’s white evangelical “religious right” finally is […]

James A. Haught

Donald Trump
Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex and Forever Wars as our other Pandemic

Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex and Forever Wars as our other Pandemic

( Tomdispatch.com) – The phrase “thinking about the unthinkable” has always been associated with the unthinkable cataclysm of a nuclear war, and rightly so. Lately, […]

William J. Astore

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