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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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Jared Kushner, With No Government Background, Scolds States for Requesting Supplies From National Equipment Stockpile

Jared Kushner, With No Government Background, Scolds States for Requesting Supplies From National Equipment Stockpile

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – Progressives expressed shock at the Trump administration’s latest indication that it intends to provide little assistance […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction

While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction

By Andrew Glikson | – At several points in the history of our planet, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused extreme […]

The Conversation

Islam
Witness to History: Early Muslim Rock Inscriptions Speak of 769 A.D. Epidemic in Medina

Witness to History: Early Muslim Rock Inscriptions Speak of 769 A.D. Epidemic in Medina

Saudi epigraphist Mohammed Almaghthawi (@mohammed93athar) has published some rock inscriptions from around Medina in western Arabia that are dated to 769, which speak of an […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Coronavirus and Georgia's Kemp:  How the GOP Stupidocracy will Kill us All

Coronavirus and Georgia’s Kemp: How the GOP Stupidocracy will Kill us All

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whose only advantage in life appears to be being a white male who has failed upward […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Despite Covid-19 Dangers, Israel ignores Pleas to Safeguard the Health of Palestinian Prisoners (Many Uncharged) in its Jails

Despite Covid-19 Dangers, Israel ignores Pleas to Safeguard the Health of Palestinian Prisoners (Many Uncharged) in its Jails

( Middle East Monitor ) – Unsurprisingly, Israel has not heeded requests to safeguard the health of Palestinian prisoners in its jails. Besides recommending “precautionary […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Germany marks first ever Quarter with more than 50 pct Renewable Electricity

Germany marks first ever Quarter with more than 50 pct Renewable Electricity

By Rachel Waldholz | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Pandemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth: Human-Caused Climate Change Impels Mass Migrations of Humans and Animals

Pandemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth: Human-Caused Climate Change Impels Mass Migrations of Humans and Animals

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As the coronavirus sweeps across the planet, leaving death and mayhem in its wake, many theories are being expounded to explain […]

Michael T. Klare

Donald Trump
Threatening Iran: Mired in Incompetence on Covid-19 at Home, Trump Tests Wagging the Dog

Threatening Iran: Mired in Incompetence on Covid-19 at Home, Trump Tests Wagging the Dog

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP quotes Trump as saying at a news conference and then on Twitter: “”We don’t want hostility, but if they […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The World Can't Afford Washington's Pet Wars and Sanctions in a Time of Plague

The World Can’t Afford Washington’s Pet Wars and Sanctions in a Time of Plague

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – During World War I, soldiers all along the Western front held a series of informal truces in December 1914 to […]

John Feffer

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