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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
Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump:  Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump: Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

( The Middle East Monitor ) – It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iraq
Kurdish Yazidi Survivors of ISIL Massacre, Female Enslavement, Demand Justice

Kurdish Yazidi Survivors of ISIL Massacre, Female Enslavement, Demand Justice

By Tutku Ayhan and Güneş Murat Tezcür | – It’s been five years since the Islamic State killed 3,100 Yazidi people in Iraq – mostly […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
We’re not Serious about the Climate Emergency: There’s Still no ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress

We’re not Serious about the Climate Emergency: There’s Still no ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress

By Arn Menconi | – (Special to Consortium News) – Today there’s no climate bill to vote on, there’s no bill in the pipeline and […]

Arn Menconi

Donald Trump
Iran and the US Come Closer:  Ayatollah Rick Perry's Evangelical Theology of Trump as God's Chosen is just like Khamenei

Iran and the US Come Closer: Ayatollah Rick Perry’s Evangelical Theology of Trump as God’s Chosen is just like Khamenei

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jay Willis at GQ reports that Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said on Fox and Friends that Trump is God’s […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
How American anti-Semitism reflects the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of religious liberty

How American anti-Semitism reflects the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of religious liberty

By Tisa Wenger | – Americans recently observed the first anniversary of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in which 11 […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Stateless, Occupied Palestinians can't vote in Next Israeli Election, but Have the Greatest Stakes

Stateless, Occupied Palestinians can’t vote in Next Israeli Election, but Have the Greatest Stakes

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – With the declaration of the leaders of Israel’s two major parties, Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu and […]

Middle East Monitor

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Expelling Human Rights Watch: Israel Joins Burundi, Uzbekistan and other Authoritarian States

Expelling Human Rights Watch: Israel Joins Burundi, Uzbekistan and other Authoritarian States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel on Sunday expelled the in-country director of Human Rights Watch from the country. Israel thereby joins dictatorships such as […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
These Young Muslims want to meet Islamophobes and Change their Minds. And it’s Working

These Young Muslims want to meet Islamophobes and Change their Minds. And it’s Working

By Ihsan Yilmaz, Ana-Maria Bliuc, and Fethi Mansouri | – The political influence of the far-right, along with a more salient national security agenda, has […]

The Conversation

War
Military Spouses and the True Costs of our Forever Wars

Military Spouses and the True Costs of our Forever Wars

By Andrea Mazzarino | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There is some incongruity between my role as an editor of a book about the costs of America’s […]

Tomdispatch

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