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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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Jared Kushner Tries to Strip Refugee Status, Aid from Millions of Displaced Palestinians

Jared Kushner Tries to Strip Refugee Status, Aid from Millions of Displaced Palestinians

According to Jared Kushner and other hard line Zionists, the Palestinian people don’t exist. Ever since they ethnically cleansed the majority of Palestinians, the Israelis […]

Juan Cole

Kuwait
Kuwait Joins Tunisia in Granting Women Full Political Rights

Kuwait Joins Tunisia in Granting Women Full Political Rights

Kuwait City (Middle East Monitor) – Kuwait has become one of the first countries in the Middle East to give full political rights to women. […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Iran: As US Sanctions Loom, Run on Gold, Banks, and Protests Spread

Iran: As US Sanctions Loom, Run on Gold, Banks, and Protests Spread

Tehran (AFP) – Iranians are hunkering down for the return of US sanctions on Monday with a run on gold and hard currency as they […]

Eric Randolph

Yemen
Yemen Slaughter: Saudi Airstrikes on Hospital, Fish Market Kill 55 Civilians – Red Cross

Yemen Slaughter: Saudi Airstrikes on Hospital, Fish Market Kill 55 Civilians – Red Cross

Sanaa (AFP) – A series of explosions Thursday on Yemen’s rebel-held port city of Hodeida killed 55 civilians and wounded dozens of others, the Red […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Turkish Party Proposes Seizing Trump Towers to Retaliate for US Sanctions

Turkish Party Proposes Seizing Trump Towers to Retaliate for US Sanctions

The Turkish Press reports that the IYI Party is suggesting that the government seize the country’s Trump Towers and nationalize it. The threat shows the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Kabul (RFE/RL) – More than 400,000 undocumented Afghan migrants left Iran for Afghanistan so far in 2018, many of them in buses from Herat, near […]

Frud Bezhan

Climate Change
Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

The researchers relied on historical data and used climate models to estimate future temperatures. Heatwave-related deaths could rise up to 2,000 percent by 2080, according […]

TeleSur

Plutocracy
5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and if there’s one thing we know […]

Nomi Prins

Syria
Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Jerusalem (AFP) – Gains by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the Syrian civil war present advantages for Israel even though the two countries remain technically […]

AFP

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