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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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Afghanistan
The Unlikely Industry Empowering Women in Afghanistan

The Unlikely Industry Empowering Women in Afghanistan

By Ruchi Kumar | (Yes! Magazine) | = = In this deeply conservative society, these women are busting stereotypes every day. The typical depiction of […]

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art and photography
Saudi Prince who Bought da Vinci Painting could have given Sight to 9 Million Instead

Saudi Prince who Bought da Vinci Painting could have given Sight to 9 Million Instead

By Peter Singer | (Project Syndicate) | – – A Saudi prince has been revealed to be the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” […]

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Corruption
The Fempire Strikes Back: #MeToo and the Man-Monsters

The Fempire Strikes Back: #MeToo and the Man-Monsters

By Ann Jones. | ( Tomdispatch.com First, for the record, let me tell you my story about another of those perversely creepy Hollywood predators, a […]

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China
Leaving US in Dust, China starts $150 Million Floating Solar Plant Project

Leaving US in Dust, China starts $150 Million Floating Solar Plant Project

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Three Gorges Group project commenced in July of this year and is expected to be […]

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Climate Change
Exodus of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts Grad Education

Exodus of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts Grad Education

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Emmanuel Macron has a program he calls MAPA – “Making the Planet Great Again.” […]

Juan Cole

Internet
FCC about to Destroy Internet w/out Understanding how it Works

FCC about to Destroy Internet w/out Understanding how it Works

By Erica Portnoy and Jeremy Gillula | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Earlier this year nearly 200 Internet engineers and computer scientists sent […]

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African-Americans
African-American areas have "Worst Poverty" in Industrialized World: UN Official

African-American areas have “Worst Poverty” in Industrialized World: UN Official

TeleSur | – – Environmental racism, extreme poverty, and disease thrive on a breathtaking scale in U.S. Black communities in the South, shocking a UN […]

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Christianity
Christian Palestinians Reject meeting with Mike Pence

Christian Palestinians Reject meeting with Mike Pence

IMEMC News | – – Christian Palestinians, along with Muslims, held a protest in front of the historic Church of the Nativity, after Sunday prayers, […]

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Counter-Terrorism
3 Ways ISIL Terrorism Will Continue even after the end of the "Caliphate"

3 Ways ISIL Terrorism Will Continue even after the end of the “Caliphate”

By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – The Destruction of the Dream of Extremist Warfare, 2014-2017 On Saturday the Iraqi prime minister, […]

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