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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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Islam-hatred
Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics

Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics

By Peter Hopkins and Robin Finlay | (The Conversation) | – – Muslim youths tend to be portrayed as politically disengaged or potentially extremist. Debates […]

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Islamophobia
Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders' anti-Muslim Hate Speech

Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders’ anti-Muslim Hate Speech

TeleSur | Many see the Dutch vote as a referendum on the viability of the viciously anti-Muslim, anti-migrant politics represented by Geert Wilders. Dutch Prime […]

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Climate Change
Trump & Saudi Arabia:  Oil Boycott or Bromance?

Trump & Saudi Arabia: Oil Boycott or Bromance?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is meeting this week with Muhammad bin Salman, the deputy heir apparent of the Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – If you are an American male of a certain age — Donald Trump’s age, to be […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Natural Gas war on Palestinians

Israel’s Natural Gas war on Palestinians

Ma’an News Agency | – – Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory does not only exist above ground. Since 1967, Israel has systematically colonized Palestinian natural […]

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Humor
N. Korea Interview interrupted by Unbearable Cuteness

N. Korea Interview interrupted by Unbearable Cuteness

BBC | (Video News Clip) | – – “There was an unexpected distraction for Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on BBC […]

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Arab Americans
To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing […]

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Is Russia trying to take back over Libya from NATO, Radicals?

Is Russia trying to take back over Libya from NATO, Radicals?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters is reporting that some 22 Russian special operations forces have set up a base in […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable

New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the […]

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