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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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Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

US Middle East policy often seemed similar to Putin’s Plot on America via Trump

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to […]

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Corruption
Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Yesterday the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign and the architect of last year’s Republican […]

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Climate Change
Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

TeleSur | (Informed Comment) | – – Carbon dioxide or CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have reached unprecedented high levels, a United Nations watchdog group […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy

How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy

Reprint edn. Update: Reuters reports that “Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts” By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – […]

Juan Cole

Archaeology
A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah

A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah

(Politically oriented readers of IC please excuse this reprint of a path-breaking but extremely technical discussion in Arabian religious and linguistic history. It is highly […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Top Six  Trump Admin. Crimes that ought to bring Indictments

Top Six Trump Admin. Crimes that ought to bring Indictments

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. Jeff Sessions lied under oath, saying he never met with any Russian official during the […]

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Rebuking Trump, IAEA Again Certifies Iran Compliance on Nuclear Deal

Rebuking Trump, IAEA Again Certifies Iran Compliance on Nuclear Deal

Zein Basravi | Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | – – “Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was in […]

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Donald Trump
What if Russia had Spec Ops on US Canadian Border? US Troops in E. Europe

What if Russia had Spec Ops on US Canadian Border? US Troops in E. Europe

By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “They are very concerned about their adversary next door,” said General Raymond Thomas, the head of […]

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