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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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Israel/ Palestine
In Search of Mideast Empire?   Why is Russia Cozying up to Hamas?

In Search of Mideast Empire? Why is Russia Cozying up to Hamas?

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – Hamas and Russia have in recent months have shared a remarkable series of official visits and telephone […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Our hair Should be on Fire about the Climate Emergency--And we have the Technology to Resolve It

Our hair Should be on Fire about the Climate Emergency–And we have the Technology to Resolve It

Andreas Busch | – When it comes to tackling climate change the UK is still taking baby steps. A lot more needs to be done […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Trump, who supports War Crimes, is losing War, and Wants to quit Afghanistan, Gaslights Troops in Kabul

Trump, who supports War Crimes, is losing War, and Wants to quit Afghanistan, Gaslights Troops in Kabul

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump showed up in Afghanistan, or rather on the US Bagram base in Afghanistan, on Thanksgiving, where he gave one […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump and Israel's Netanyahu:  How the Far Right Subverts Democracy Globally

Trump and Israel’s Netanyahu: How the Far Right Subverts Democracy Globally

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment) – The trajectories and political fortunes of Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and President Donald Trump are so closely […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

By Mark Maslin | – The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey's Fundamentalist Proxies

Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey’s Fundamentalist Proxies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch reports that the fundamentalist Arab fighters Turkey brought with it to the Kurdish regions of northeast Iraq […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Winter is Coming: Is Trump Impeaching us rather than the Other Way Around?

Winter is Coming: Is Trump Impeaching us rather than the Other Way Around?

(Tomdispatch.com) – French king Louis XV reputedly said, “Après moi, le déluge.” (“After me, the flood.”) Whether that line was really his remains unclear, but […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – (Middle East Monitor) – Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration made a notable move. Secretary of State […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
On Thanksgiving, Let’s Be Thankful we Can Still Address our Climate Emergency: And then Do It

On Thanksgiving, Let’s Be Thankful we Can Still Address our Climate Emergency: And then Do It

Revised for 2019 By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. […]

Juan Cole

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