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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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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Deal: What it means for Peace in the Middle East

Gaza Deal: What it means for Peace in the Middle East

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – After 15 months of bitter conflict on the Gaza Strip, a ceasefire deal has been agreed […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy

How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy

by Brett Murphy ( ProPublica ) – Empty Threats: Since Oct. 7, 2023, Biden has repeatedly issued threats that Israel ignored. U.S. officials tried to […]

ProPublica

censorship
Professor Katherine Franke on being Fired from Columbia Law School for Palestine Advocacy

Professor Katherine Franke on being Fired from Columbia Law School for Palestine Advocacy

Statement from Katherine Franke, January 10, 2025 For the last year and a half, as students at Columbia University and across the globe have protested […]

Katherine M. Franke

Lebanon
Lebanon’s new President faces uphill Struggle to steer Country away from Brink of Collapse

Lebanon’s new President faces uphill Struggle to steer Country away from Brink of Collapse

By John Nagle, Queen’s University Belfast and Drew Mikhael, Queen’s University Belfast Lebanon’s parliament elected a new president on January 9 after a two-year political […]

The Conversation

Nuclear weapons
Angling toward Armageddon: The Return of Senator Strangelove

Angling toward Armageddon: The Return of Senator Strangelove

( Tomdispatch.com ) – A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the […]

William D. Hartung

Congress
Representative, it is Shameful that you Voted to Sanction the Justices of the Int’l Criminal Court for Netanyahu Arrest Warrant

Representative, it is Shameful that you Voted to Sanction the Justices of the Int’l Criminal Court for Netanyahu Arrest Warrant

Letter to Representative Jared Golden (D-ME) Dear Representative Jared Golden: Your decision to vote in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Court of Justice, (ICC) […]

Hugh J. Curran

Israel/ Palestine
The Fall of Israeli Impunity: The World is Starting to hold Tel Aviv Accountable for the Gaza Genocide

The Fall of Israeli Impunity: The World is Starting to hold Tel Aviv Accountable for the Gaza Genocide

( Middle East Monitor ) – A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli […]

Ramzy Baroud

religion
How the US Religious Right is making Religion Unpopular

How the US Religious Right is making Religion Unpopular

By Galen Watts, University of Waterloo (The Conversation) – In 1961, less than one per cent of Canadians identified as having no religion. In 2021, […]

The Conversation

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Crime of the Century: CBS’ 60 Minutes Exposes the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide, Interviews the Whistleblowers

Crime of the Century: CBS’ 60 Minutes Exposes the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide, Interviews the Whistleblowers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The amazingly brave Cecilia Vega at CBS’ 60 Minutes did a groundbreaking segment on Sunday in which she interviewed US […]

Juan Cole

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