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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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Displaced and Refugees
What challenges do Syrian Refugees face as they return Home?

What challenges do Syrian Refugees face as they return Home?

Written byRami Alhames Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrive at Skala Sykamias Lesvos, Greece. Image by Georgios Giannopoulos via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. ( Globalvoices.org ) – […]

Global Voices

Israel/ Palestine
When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Copilot is a Bipartisan Uncle Sam

When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Copilot is a Bipartisan Uncle Sam

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its […]

Stan Cox

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New Solar Installations double to 24.5 Gigawatts in 2024 in India — World’s 5th Largest Economy

New Solar Installations double to 24.5 Gigawatts in 2024 in India — World’s 5th Largest Economy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – India installed 24.5 new gigawatts of solar power in 2024, along with 3.4 gigawatts of new wind. That represented a […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Gaza War has cost Tel Aviv $67 Bn., Diverting NatGas Revenues from Health and Education to Military

Israel’s Gaza War has cost Tel Aviv $67 Bn., Diverting NatGas Revenues from Health and Education to Military

( Middle East Monitor ) – The financial impact of Israel’s ongoing conflict with Gaza had reached an estimated 67.57 billion USD by the end […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
2024’s extreme Ocean Heat breaks Records again, leaving 2 Mysteries to solve

2024’s extreme Ocean Heat breaks Records again, leaving 2 Mysteries to solve

By Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology (The Conversation) – The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the […]

The Conversation

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Palestinian Deaths from Military attacks in Gaza 69% Higher than Estimated, 60% Women, Children, Elderly

Palestinian Deaths from Military attacks in Gaza 69% Higher than Estimated, 60% Women, Children, Elderly

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Yale has published a study in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel destroyed Gaza for Generations to come, and the World stayed Silent

Israel destroyed Gaza for Generations to come, and the World stayed Silent

( Middle East Monitor ) – The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
L. A. Fires show the Human Cost of Climate-Driven ‘Whiplash’ between Wet and Dry Extremes

L. A. Fires show the Human Cost of Climate-Driven ‘Whiplash’ between Wet and Dry Extremes

By Doug Specht, University of Westminster (The Conversation) – October to April is normally considered to be the wet season in California, yet this January, […]

The Conversation

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The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf

The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf

Review of Allen James Fromherz, The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present (Berkeley: […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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