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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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I guess "Islam" doesn't Hate us After All: Trump pins hopes for Vaccine on Muslim-American Slaoui

I guess “Islam” doesn’t Hate us After All: Trump pins hopes for Vaccine on Muslim-American Slaoui

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump became president in part by playing on fears, resentments and outright hatred among some segments of the American public, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine

How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine

( Middle East Monitor) – Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little […]

Ramzy Baroud

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In the Midst of a Pandemic, Can we Afford to spend Trillions on War Industries?

In the Midst of a Pandemic, Can we Afford to spend Trillions on War Industries?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Camus’ novel of a lethal contagion in the North African city of Oran is filled with characters all too […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Epidemics
Despite the Opposition of Some, The Science is Clear: Masks Stop the Spread of Coronavirus and should be Mandatory

Despite the Opposition of Some, The Science is Clear: Masks Stop the Spread of Coronavirus and should be Mandatory

By Jeremy Howard | I’m a data scientist at the University of San Francisco and teach courses online in machine learning for fast.ai. In late […]

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Dr. Bright to Congress: With 85,000 already Dead, US Gov't Coronavirus Inaction threatens us with "Darkest Winter in Modern History"

Dr. Bright to Congress: With 85,000 already Dead, US Gov’t Coronavirus Inaction threatens us with “Darkest Winter in Modern History”

The testimony of Dr. Rick Bright on Thursday was a remarkably low-key affair given the bombshell revelations Ruiz divulged of the paralysis, inaction and frankly […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Democracy is not a Luxury in Times of Pandemic

Democracy is not a Luxury in Times of Pandemic

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – While some pundits extol the virtue of strong government (i.e., dictatorship) in fighting Covid-19, Middle Eastern activists are […]

Elizabeth F. Thompson

Culture
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:  “All those whose Names are Written in Love’s Book”

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: “All those whose Names are Written in Love’s Book”

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain of the Day All hearts that shine with passion’s radiance, no matter if they pray in mosque or church– all […]

Juan Cole

China
How China's Han Empire Predicted America’s Imperial Decay

How China’s Han Empire Predicted America’s Imperial Decay

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – The Han dynasty’s collapse is an abject lesson in imperial decay that prefigures in alarming ways our own […]

Martin Powers

Epidemics
Who is "Essential" to our Covid-19 World?  A Military Spouse's Perspective on Fighting this Pandemic

Who is “Essential” to our Covid-19 World? A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Fighting this Pandemic

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “When he first came home, it was tough.” So Aleha, the wife of an airman in […]

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