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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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Donald Trump
Trump's Soleimani Assassination:  It's All about the Oil

Trump’s Soleimani Assassination: It’s All about the Oil

(48Hills.org) – Reese Erlich, who has reported from the region for 20 years, sorts out the impact of Trump’s drone attack that killed a popular […]

Reese Erlich

Climate Crisis
Australia's Climate Apocalypse: Wildfires Kill half a Billion Animals, produce Smoke Cloud as Big as United States

Australia’s Climate Apocalypse: Wildfires Kill half a Billion Animals, produce Smoke Cloud as Big as United States

By Teo Blašković | – (The Watchers) – Bushfires in Australia have killed at least 22 people since August 2019 and destroyed more than 2 […]

The Watchers

Christianity
When Jews and Christians Believed in the Qur’an

When Jews and Christians Believed in the Qur’an

By Emran El-Badawi | – ( Mizan) = When did Jews and Christians ever believe in the Qur’an? The first step towards answering this question […]

Emran El-Badawi

Donald Trump
Trump Unites Iran and Iraq . . . against the United States

Trump Unites Iran and Iraq . . . against the United States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As is always the way with Western colonialists, Trump administration figures such as secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave it […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
US-Iran War Drums Show the Perils in Trump's Policy of going it Alone

US-Iran War Drums Show the Perils in Trump’s Policy of going it Alone

By Klaus W. Larres | – President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s […]

The Conversation

Inequality
Top 8 Ways the Massive Trump Tax Cut Made the Super-Rich Super-Richer and Failed Working Families

Top 8 Ways the Massive Trump Tax Cut Made the Super-Rich Super-Richer and Failed Working Families

By Frank Clemente | – In the two years since Congress passed the Republican tax law, the richest 1 percent have been the big winners. […]

Inequality.org

Climate Crisis
Australia: The Fire This Time

Australia: The Fire This Time

The Climate Crisis isn’t Fooling Around

John Buell

Donald Trump
Trump's New Year Fireworks this time were Chaos in Iraq

Trump’s New Year Fireworks this time were Chaos in Iraq

Boston (Special to Informed Comment) – The last day of 2019 saw a huge contrast between scenes of New Year’s joy in Times Square in […]

Peter Crowley

Iran
No Fair!  Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East

No Fair! Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East

Political Cartoon | – “No Fair! Iran put its Country right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East h/t Middle East Eye

Juan Cole

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