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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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Eastern Orthodox
When even Trump's Supreme Court upholds Gay Rights, You know Christian Fundamentalism has Lost

When even Trump’s Supreme Court upholds Gay Rights, You know Christian Fundamentalism has Lost

Charleston, WV (Special to Informed Comment) – This month’s Supreme Court decree that gays cannot be fired from jobs simply because they’re gay is a […]

James A. Haught

China
The Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks?  How Russia and China could humiliate Trump on Eve of Election by Lifting Iran Arms Embargo

The Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks? How Russia and China could humiliate Trump on Eve of Election by Lifting Iran Arms Embargo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is about to go up against China and Russia at the United Nations Security Council over the looming end […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?

Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?

(Tomdispatch.com) – In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans are finally — or is it once again? — confronting the racism […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Israel/ Palestine
Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

( Codepink) – Joe Biden wants you to believe that he is opposed to Israel’s likely annexation of parts of the West Bank that Netanyahu […]

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

History
Covid-19 makes Saudis Largely Cancel Pilgrimage (Hajj), But Plagues and Sectarianism have Intervened Before

Covid-19 makes Saudis Largely Cancel Pilgrimage (Hajj), But Plagues and Sectarianism have Intervened Before

By Ken Chitwood | – Saudi Arabia has effectively canceled the hajj for most of the world’s Muslims, saying the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca will […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The other Pandemic: Siberia hits over 100° F, hotter than Miami, 80 Years Early, because Coal and Gasoline

The other Pandemic: Siberia hits over 100° F, hotter than Miami, 80 Years Early, because Coal and Gasoline

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As if the coronavirus pandemic, depression-era unemployment, and a mad President in the White House were not enough, Mother Nature […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Saudi Arabia ends Lockdown as Infections Surge:  Is it on a Trumpian path to Disaster?

Saudi Arabia ends Lockdown as Infections Surge: Is it on a Trumpian path to Disaster?

(Al-Bab.com) – Saudi Arabia ended its coronavirus lockdown this morning despite record numbers of new infections during the past week. Lifting the lockdown brings an […]

Brian Whitaker

Syria
Will Trump's Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians' Misery?

Will Trump’s Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians’ Misery?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. And after seeing the 53,275 photographs proving […]

Middle East Monitor

African-Americans
The George Floyd protests aren't just anti-racist – they are anti-authoritarian

The George Floyd protests aren’t just anti-racist – they are anti-authoritarian

By Lilian Bobea | — The massive protests that erupted across the United States – and beyond – after the police killing of George Floyd […]

The Conversation

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