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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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Israel/ Palestine
Why are North American Synagogues selling Palestinians' Real Estate in the West Bank?

Why are North American Synagogues selling Palestinians’ Real Estate in the West Bank?

( The New Arab ) – The marketing of ‘Anglo neighbourhoods’ in the occupied West Bank at real estate events in synagogues in Toronto, Los […]

Yoav Litvin

Artificial Intelligence
A.I. may kill us All, but not the Way you Think

A.I. may kill us All, but not the Way you Think

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The conventional Artificial Intelligence doomsday scenario runs like this. A robot acquires sentience and decides for some reason […]

John Feffer

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Ten Conflicts to Understand the New Middle East

Ten Conflicts to Understand the New Middle East

Review of : Christopher Phillips, Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024. Munich, Germany (Special […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

US Foreign Policy
Defeat Culture: The Decline and Fall of Presidential America

Defeat Culture: The Decline and Fall of Presidential America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s not a happenstance or some sad mistake that, barring a surprise, Americans will go to the polls in November to […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas' War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (HRW)

Hamas’ War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (HRW)

“I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind” Palestinian Armed Groups’ October 7 Assault on Israel October 7 Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes by […]

Human Rights Watch

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China and the Slowing Petroleum Market:  EVs displaced 1.5 mn. Barrels per Day in 2024

China and the Slowing Petroleum Market: EVs displaced 1.5 mn. Barrels per Day in 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Energy Agency signaled last week that the rate of increase in world petroleum demand fell in the second […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
For Republicans, the Bill is coming due for their "Project 2025"

For Republicans, the Bill is coming due for their “Project 2025”

‘I’m not trying to scare us; I’m trying to inform us.’ ( Florida Phoenix ) – On June 30, actress Taraji P. Henson paused her […]

Florida Phoenix

Hizbullah
Lebanese Society is Split over a Potential War with Israel

Lebanese Society is Split over a Potential War with Israel

Rola El-Husseini, Lund University | – (The Conversation) – Hezbollah began launching rockets into northern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians shortly after the start of […]

The Conversation

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NATO must rethink Expansion Plans, step back from  Precipice of Nuclear Confrontation with Russia

NATO must rethink Expansion Plans, step back from Precipice of Nuclear Confrontation with Russia

Auburn, Alabama (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – There’s a history to the war between Russia and the West going back to the Cold War […]

Richard Penaskovic

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