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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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The US Tax System is a vast Ponzi Scheme that only Benefits the Wealthy

The US Tax System is a vast Ponzi Scheme that only Benefits the Wealthy

( Gainesville Sun ) – There are no easy answers to financing U.S. health insurance, mental health care, social services, public health and other services […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Bashar al-Assad
2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult

By Ora Szekely | – Despite many attempts at negotiations, the Syrian war – a conflict with a complicated and constantly changing cast of characters […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Iran Covid-19 Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies; and Europe Defies Washington

Iran Covid-19 Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies; and Europe Defies Washington

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union has activated the Instex trading mechanism for the purpose of sending medicine and medical supplies to Iran […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis will also be Killing 250K / year Soon, and Needs same Planetary Swift Action as Covid-19

Climate Crisis will also be Killing 250K / year Soon, and Needs same Planetary Swift Action as Covid-19

By Eric Galbraith and Ross Otto | – In the past few weeks, governments around the world have enacted dramatic measures to mitigate the threat […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How we gave up our Health, Environment and Diplomacy for Wars, Walls and Plutocracy

How we gave up our Health, Environment and Diplomacy for Wars, Walls and Plutocracy

Greenfield, MA (Special to Informed Comment) -Budgets are moral documents (or immoral, depending on priorities). So also is tax policy. Consider Trump’s proposed $1.3 trillion […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Epidemics
The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

( Tomdispatch.com) – Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, […]

Rebecca Gordon

African-Americans
Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That's because they've made Their Base White and Evangelical

Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That’s because they’ve made Their Base White and Evangelical

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Kalmbacher at Law&Crime surveys reactions to Trump’s admission in an interview on Fox News that a mail-in ballot program […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Israel Gov't is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The Israel Gov’t is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly […]

Asa Winstanley

Employment
Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov't Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest

Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov’t Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest

By Roshanak Mehdipanah and Gregory Sallabank | – Millions of Americans are suddenly out of work as the financial and economic crisis sparked by the […]

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