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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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Trump's Environmental Protection Agency just gave Polluters a License to Kill

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Climate after corona: Germany's green stimulus package could boost the economic recovery

Climate after corona: Germany’s green stimulus package could boost the economic recovery

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The coronavirus crisis is driving many economies around the globe into recession, leading policymakers […]

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Islam
Veiled Muslim Women abruptly Find Acceptance amid Coronavirus Face Masks: “Nobody is giving me Dirty Looks”

Veiled Muslim Women abruptly Find Acceptance amid Coronavirus Face Masks: “Nobody is giving me Dirty Looks”

By Anna Piela | – Americans began donning face masks this week after federal and local officials changed their position on whether face coverings protect […]

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Christianity
What Christians can Learn from Islam about Easter: The Qur’an denied Jews were Responsible for the Cross

What Christians can Learn from Islam about Easter: The Qur’an denied Jews were Responsible for the Cross

Revised Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – That the Qur’an recognizes the virgin birth, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus is something worth remembering on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Mideast Coronavirus War? Israel Blocks Pandemic Aid to Palestinians of Gaza, Risking Violence

Mideast Coronavirus War? Israel Blocks Pandemic Aid to Palestinians of Gaza, Risking Violence

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) -In recent days, Hamas and Israel witnessed a clear row over providing medical assistance to […]

Middle East Monitor

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How Trump is making the Coming Great Recession even more Massive

How Trump is making the Coming Great Recession even more Massive

San Francisco (48hills.org) – The current recession was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. But after 11 years of economic boom, a capitalist bust was inevitable. […]

Reese Erlich

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Exponential Growth: Bad in a Pandemic, Bad Economics if we Care about Climate and Mass Extinctions

Exponential Growth: Bad in a Pandemic, Bad Economics if we Care about Climate and Mass Extinctions

By Chirag Dhara (The Hindu) – “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low,” said Mr. Donald Trump on […]

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The Fundamentalist Religion of the Market and COVID-19

The Fundamentalist Religion of the Market and COVID-19

Discussions on the role of religion in the contemporary world generally fail to take into consideration an argument advanced by David Loy more than twenty […]

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How did we Become so Backward?  S. Korea had US Equivalent of 1,311 Coronavirus Deaths as we hit 16,000

How did we Become so Backward? S. Korea had US Equivalent of 1,311 Coronavirus Deaths as we hit 16,000

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US is heading for having the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world next week. Admittedly the US […]

Juan Cole

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