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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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Displaced and Refugees
Trump Ordered 70 Airstrikes in Yemen, Twice as Many as Last Year of Obama

Trump Ordered 70 Airstrikes in Yemen, Twice as Many as Last Year of Obama

TeleSur | – – U.S. President Trump also greenlighted a group operation in Yemen in February that killed more than 30 civilians. The young U.S. […]

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Militarization
How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world […]

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Internet
Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media

Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media

IMEMC | – – The Israeli government has purchased a software system enabling it to monitor social media and specific users to plan ideas in […]

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Green Energy
Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

By Joseph Kirschke | (Next Billion) | – – In recent months, events across three continents showed how clean energy use by the mining industry, […]

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Authoritarianism
Strongman:  The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism

Strongman: The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism

By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In 2016, something extraordinary happened in the politics of diverse countries around the world. With […]

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Israel/ Palestine
PM May:  Take back the Balfour Declaration - Israel reneged on the Bargain

PM May: Take back the Balfour Declaration – Israel reneged on the Bargain

By Ian Berman | (Informed Comment) | – – Dear Prime Minister May: The centennial of the Balfour Declaration is upon us. Accordingly, we think […]

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Authoritarianism
Trump, al-Sisi and Tightening up the Pressure Cooker

Trump, al-Sisi and Tightening up the Pressure Cooker

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump met Monday with Egyptian field marshal/ president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Trump effused, “We agree […]

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American Jews
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

By Ingrid Anderson | (The Conversation) | – – This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?

Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Elizabeth Palmer reported from Ankara last Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had difficult and […]

Juan Cole

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