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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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Militarization
Defund the Pentagon, Too

Defund the Pentagon, Too

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – When Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a resolution recently to cut $350 billion from the Defense budget, the only media […]

Sonali Kolhatkar

Climate Crisis
100 degrees in Siberia? Top 5 ways burning Coal, Gasoline is causing Astonishing Transformation of Arctic

100 degrees in Siberia? Top 5 ways burning Coal, Gasoline is causing Astonishing Transformation of Arctic

This Arctic heat wave has been unusually long-lived. The darkest reds on this map of the Arctic are areas that were more than 14 degrees […]

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Christianity
Tear them down? “White Jesus” statues have an Unsavory History in Aryan Racial Theory that also Influenced Nazi Theology

Tear them down? “White Jesus” statues have an Unsavory History in Aryan Racial Theory that also Influenced Nazi Theology

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Emily McFarlan at the Religion News Service explores the controversy over depictions of Jesus as white in American statues. She […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll:  The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll: The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Today the United States eclipsed 125,000 deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic, and the worst might be yet to come. […]

David Faris

Israel/ Palestine
Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister's Wedding

Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister’s Wedding

( Middle East Monitor) – For Palestinians, Israel’s military checkpoints are made for its colonial violence and perpetual dehumanisation of the occupied population. In the […]

Ramona Wadi

art and photography
A Drunken Nightingale: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Honolulu's Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art

A Drunken Nightingale: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Honolulu’s Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design | Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art |- Here is a short video made while I […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump's incompetence has Reduced Americans to Lepers whom Europe won't Let in

Trump’s incompetence has Reduced Americans to Lepers whom Europe won’t Let in

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The French press is reporting that the European Union is opening its borders on July 1, but will keep them […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Only a Criminal Regime would Coerce Int'l Criminal Court as Trump is Doing -- Oh wait

Only a Criminal Regime would Coerce Int’l Criminal Court as Trump is Doing — Oh wait

By Tasnim Nazeer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Trump administration in Washington has attempted repeatedly to block investigations by the International […]

Middle East Monitor

Nonviolence
Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents

Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents

By Jennifer Earl, James J. Nolan, Jessica Maves Braithwaite and Kirssa Cline Ryckman | – Scholars: Kirssa Cline Ryckman, Jennifer Earl, Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University […]

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