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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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Human Rights
Video Shows Ethiopian-Israeli Soldier Beaten By Police – Violent Clashes In Tel Aviv

Video Shows Ethiopian-Israeli Soldier Beaten By Police – Violent Clashes In Tel Aviv

AJ+ | — “Clashes on the streets of Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian origin have taken to the streets after a video appeared […]

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Buddhism
Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave

Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave

Wochit News / IRIN | – “Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a […]

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Apartheid
Israeli soldier testimonies reveal 'shoot to kill' policy in Gaza war

Israeli soldier testimonies reveal ‘shoot to kill’ policy in Gaza war

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Testimonies from over 60 Israeli soldiers and officers who fought during last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip were released to the […]

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Banking
Warren Buffett betting big on Wind Energy in Nebraska, & other Planet-Saving News

Warren Buffett betting big on Wind Energy in Nebraska, & other Planet-Saving News

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Wind power is on a roll in the US despite a fickle Congress and the machinations of Big […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Black Lives Matter in Israel too:  Protest against police violence

Black Lives Matter in Israel too: Protest against police violence

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | — Several thousand people, mostly hailing from Israel’s large Ethiopian population, took to the streets of Tel […]

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Human Rights
Daesh in Mosul seeks Child Soldiers, Child Suicide-Bombers

Daesh in Mosul seeks Child Soldiers, Child Suicide-Bombers

By Khales Joumah | Mosul | (Niqash.org) – One of the latest inventions by the Islamic State in Mosul is the mobile pulpit. Most recently […]

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Barack Obama
"Bug Splat":   Body Counts, Drones, and “Collateral Damage”

“Bug Splat”: Body Counts, Drones, and “Collateral Damage”

Tom Englehardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – The Obama administration has adamantly refused to count. Not a body. In fact, for a long time, American officials […]

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Climate Change
One in six species faces extinction as a result of climate change

One in six species faces extinction as a result of climate change

By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – The Earth is on course to lose up to one in six of all its species, if […]

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Barack Obama
US Airstrike in Syria kills 53 Civilians, 6 Children

US Airstrike in Syria kills 53 Civilians, 6 Children

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) As Mariam Karouny reports for Reuters, the US air strike on Friday that inadvertently hit a village of non-combatants, […]

Juan Cole

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