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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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Human Rights
Saudi Arabia’s Strategy to ‘Sportswash’ Abuses

Saudi Arabia’s Strategy to ‘Sportswash’ Abuses

By Minky Worden | Director of Global Initiatives | – (

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Your Global Carbon Dioxide Output will hit Record ~37 bn. Tons and it is Very Bad News

Your Global Carbon Dioxide Output will hit Record ~37 bn. Tons and it is Very Bad News

By Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, Pierre Friedlingstein, Robbie Andrew< , Rob Jackson and Vanessa Haverd | - Global emissions for 2019 are […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump Fails again to Bring our Troops Home from Mideast:  Mulling Escalation of 14,000 v. Iran

Trump Fails again to Bring our Troops Home from Mideast: Mulling Escalation of 14,000 v. Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s Pentagon is allegedly mulling sending 14,000 US troops to the Middle East to counter Iran. Although the Pentagon pushed […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Is Iran an Expansionist Power or Just in Defensive Mode?

Is Iran an Expansionist Power or Just in Defensive Mode?

By Edward Hunt | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The Iranian military is focused on deterring external threats not launching an attack on its […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Islamophobia
Israel-Based Group is Behind Bigoted Facebook Smear Campaign Aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar

Israel-Based Group is Behind Bigoted Facebook Smear Campaign Aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar

By Eoin Higgins, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – “The goal of these anti-Muslim hate campaigns is clear—they put Muslim lives here and around the […]

Common Dreams

Christianity
White Anxiety and Imperial Christianity: The GOP Pathologies that Twin them with Trump

White Anxiety and Imperial Christianity: The GOP Pathologies that Twin them with Trump

(Tomdispatch.com ) – On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special […]

Rebecca Gordon

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At NATO, Trump irrelevant as France's Macron Confronts Turkey on Invasion of Syrian Kurds

At NATO, Trump irrelevant as France’s Macron Confronts Turkey on Invasion of Syrian Kurds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 70th anniversary of NATO was commemorated with a low-key meeting rather than a summit and was not the united […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis, Not Conflict, Drove Many Syrian Refugees from their Homes

Climate Crisis, Not Conflict, Drove Many Syrian Refugees from their Homes

By Hussein A. Amery | – People who fled Syria in recent years are often viewed as war refugees because of the violence that has […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention

The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention

By Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka) – Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Israeli Security Agency has been torturing Palestinians. Al-Shabaka Senior Palestine Policy Fellow […]

Al-Shabaka

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