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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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Immigration
Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime

Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime

San Francisco (Yes! Magazine) – Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime. President Donald Trump’s core supporters consist of 60 million to […]

Mike Males

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Airstrike in Yemen hits School Bus, kills 29 Kids

Saudi Airstrike in Yemen hits School Bus, kills 29 Kids

Sanaa (AFP) – An attack on a bus at a market in rebel-held northern Yemen killed at least 29 children Thursday, the Red Cross said, […]

AFP

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US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham 'Undesirables'

US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham ‘Undesirables’

Professional bigot Laura Ingraham, ensconced in the primo 10 pm slot at Fox Cable News, has delivered herself of one of her typical Know-Nothing pronouncements […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Socialists of America
First Palestinian-American Socialist Woman to Enter Congress: Rashida Tlaib

First Palestinian-American Socialist Woman to Enter Congress: Rashida Tlaib

The strong number of female candidates comes midway through the term of Trump. Rashida Tlaib is set to become the first Muslim and Palestinian-American woman […]

TeleSur

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The Saudi Problem: Wildly Erratic, and Savagely Lashing out from Yemen to Qatar to . . . Canada?

The Saudi Problem: Wildly Erratic, and Savagely Lashing out from Yemen to Qatar to . . . Canada?

Mohamed Bin Salman is at it again. The yacht-loving Renaissance art collector who tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the American elite […]

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

(Informed Comment) – Seventy-three years ago, on August 6 and August 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine Recognized as Sovereign State by Outgoing Colombia Government

Palestine Recognized as Sovereign State by Outgoing Colombia Government

Bogota (AFP) – Colombia recognized Palestine as a sovereign state in the days before new President Ivan Duque took office, according to a letter from […]

AFP

Iran
Why Iranians shrug off Trump Sanctions:  ‘No one in the World Trusts US’

Why Iranians shrug off Trump Sanctions: ‘No one in the World Trusts US’

Tehran (AFP) – If the US was hoping renewed sanctions on Iran would cause immediate economic turmoil and mass anti-government protests, it may be disappointed, […]

Eric Randolph

Donald Trump
Yes, Lou Dobbs, Mueller is Engaged in a Jihad–and that’s a Good Thing

Yes, Lou Dobbs, Mueller is Engaged in a Jihad–and that’s a Good Thing

Jihad in the Qur’an is the moral struggle to do good, and the Prophet is said to have defined it as speaking the word of truth to a tyrant

Asma Afsaruddin

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