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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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Boycotts as Russia seethes against Turkey after Shootdown

Boycotts as Russia seethes against Turkey after Shootdown

By Tom Balmforth | ( RFE/RL) | – – MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin said there would be “serious consequences” after Turkish fighter jets shot down […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Jewish-Only Cities to Evict Thousands of Palestinians

Jewish-Only Cities to Evict Thousands of Palestinians

By IMEMC News | – – Thousands of Palestinians will be displaced as part of a new Israeli plan to build several Jewish-only communities in […]

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Climate Change
This Year Thanksgiving overlaps Paris Climate Summit: Let’s be Thankful we can Do Something

This Year Thanksgiving overlaps Paris Climate Summit: Let’s be Thankful we can Do Something

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Reprint edn. The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane?  The Proxy War in Syria

Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane? The Proxy War in Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish government decision to down a Russian jet operating in the north of the Syrian […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Can France forge a grand alliance against ISIL that includes Putin & Obama?

Can France forge a grand alliance against ISIL that includes Putin & Obama?

Shelby Holliday | (WSJ Video Report) | – – “In the wake of the Paris attacks, French President Francois Hollande is traveling to Washington and […]

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Campaign Finance
Kabul on the Potomac:  How America became the most Corrupt Society in the West

Kabul on the Potomac: How America became the most Corrupt Society in the West

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – A top government official with energy industry holdings huddles in secret with oil company executives to […]

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Russia
Putin, Furious, calls Turkey ‘accomplices of terrorists’ after Russian jet downing

Putin, Furious, calls Turkey ‘accomplices of terrorists’ after Russian jet downing

EurActiv.com | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet today (24 November) a stab in the back administered […]

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Arab Americans
Americans' views of Islam depend on whether they're at war overseas

Americans’ views of Islam depend on whether they’re at war overseas

The Bridge Initiative | – – Washington, DC The Bridge Initiative, a Georgetown University research project on Islamophobia, releases today its inaugural report which traces […]

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censorship
Saudi Arabia: Poet Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

Saudi Arabia: Poet Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – A Saudi court sentenced a Palestinian man to death for apostasy on November 17, 2015, for alleged […]

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