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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 […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Juan Cole

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int'l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a "Genocidal" Israel

Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int’l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a “Genocidal” Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicaragua’s opposition online newspaper, La Prensa , reported Monday that proceedings began at the International Court of Justice in Managua’s […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Dangerous Deceptions and Outright Lies:  Language in the War on Gaza

Dangerous Deceptions and Outright Lies: Language in the War on Gaza

By Dubravka Žarkov | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Israel’s political and military leaders have produced so many outright lies regarding Gaza and […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine
A "Herculean" Task:  Can Gaza ever be Rebuilt?

A “Herculean” Task: Can Gaza ever be Rebuilt?

By Dima Nazzal, Georgia Institute of Technology | – Over a decade ago, a United Nations report described the Gaza Strip as virtually unlivable, adding […]

The Conversation

Algeria
The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism

The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “The colonized took up arms not only because they were dying of hunger and witnessing the disintegration of […]

Dan Dinello

Counter-Terrorism
The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo

The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Climate Crisis
80% of All Fossil Fuel and Cement C02 Emissions since 2016 produced by 57 Companies and Countries

80% of All Fossil Fuel and Cement C02 Emissions since 2016 produced by 57 Companies and Countries

By Matthew Carl Ives, University of Oxford; Belinda Wade, The University of Queensland; and Saphira Rekker, The University of Queensland | – Just 57 companies […]

The Conversation

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The U.S. used to Stand up to Israeli Expansionism: Time for Biden to Show Eisenhower's Spine

The U.S. used to Stand up to Israeli Expansionism: Time for Biden to Show Eisenhower’s Spine

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – President John. F Kennedy coined the term “special relationship” to describe the American-Israeli relationship. This “special relationship” has […]

Mohamed Jegham

Genocide
Against genocide: A conversation with Ofer Cassif

Against genocide: A conversation with Ofer Cassif

Stephanie Van Hook

Waging Nonviolence

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