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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

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African-Americans
Seattle's BLM Autonomous Protest Zone and the Paris Commune of 1871: Anti-Capitalist Spirit still Lives

Seattle’s BLM Autonomous Protest Zone and the Paris Commune of 1871: Anti-Capitalist Spirit still Lives

Oli Mould | – A new autonomous zone set up in Seattle by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement bears some striking similarities with the […]

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African-Americans
Tucker Carlson Rises to Defense of Confederates who Killed 360,222 Federal Troops, 100x more than Al-Qaeda

Tucker Carlson Rises to Defense of Confederates who Killed 360,222 Federal Troops, 100x more than Al-Qaeda

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson is shedding advertisers the way a rattlesnake sheds his skin. He went full white supremacist some time ago, […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Once the "Paris of the Middle East," Lebanon's Financial and Health Crises are Tearing it Apart

Once the “Paris of the Middle East,” Lebanon’s Financial and Health Crises are Tearing it Apart

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanon may have survived its bubbles and wars decades ago, but the combination of economic crisis and the coronavirus may […]

Jamal Dillman-Hasso

Democratic Socialism
What Corporations Fear: Best Recovery from Covid-19 Depression is Universal Income and Federal School Funding

What Corporations Fear: Best Recovery from Covid-19 Depression is Universal Income and Federal School Funding

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – I am betting that before November 2020 Congress will pass and the President will sign another major […]

John Buell

Pentagon
The Outpouring of Grief over George Floyd's Death gave America a chance at Rebirth: Will we take it?

The Outpouring of Grief over George Floyd’s Death gave America a chance at Rebirth: Will we take it?

( Tomdispatch.com) – They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. […]

Nick Turse

Colonialism
All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism

All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It was bad enough that Trump endangered the health of the graduating class at West Point for the purposes of […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East

Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East

By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – ( Globalvoices.org) – COVID-19 has exacerbated existing political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, a region already […]

Global Voices

Authoritarianism
America’s Wars always Come Home

America’s Wars always Come Home

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It was entirely fitting that Senator Tom Cotton would be the one to say the quiet part out loud […]

Harry Blain

Donald Trump
Trump’s Infatuation with the Insurrection Act Recalls Worst Political Divide in US HIstory

Trump’s Infatuation with the Insurrection Act Recalls Worst Political Divide in US HIstory

The Vice President rebelled and sought to be Emperor of the West

The Conversation

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