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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Democracy
Post-Election Beatitude:  Beating the Blues

Post-Election Beatitude: Beating the Blues

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hill; leader of […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

By by Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with […]

Middle East Monitor

Republican Party
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Afghanistan
How to Lose a War:  The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

( Middle East Monitor ) – The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to […]

William D. Hartung

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Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup

Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go round, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘Apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘Apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

By Dennis Altman, La Trobe University | – In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance

Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance

The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in […]

Yoav Litvin

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