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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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Climate Crisis: Record Low 3% Great Lakes Ice Coverage during Usual Peak Period

Climate Crisis: Record Low 3% Great Lakes Ice Coverage during Usual Peak Period

By: Kyle Davidson – As much of the Great Lakes region experiences its warmest winter on record, and more record high temperatures are expected in […]

Michigan Advance

Democracy
Israeli Peace Activists agree War must end with some form of Democracy for All

Israeli Peace Activists agree War must end with some form of Democracy for All

By Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame | – (The Conversation) – The months since Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, have been excruciating ones […]

The Conversation

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Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? How the Gaza Conflict Made Democracy's Name Mud for Millions

Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? How the Gaza Conflict Made Democracy’s Name Mud for Millions

Here is my latest column for Tomdispatch.com. Do check out Tom Engelhardt’s important introduction over there at the original site. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
To Defend Israel's Actions, the US is Destroying the Int'l Legal System it once Constructed

To Defend Israel’s Actions, the US is Destroying the Int’l Legal System it once Constructed

( Middle East Monitor ) – In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonised nations that […]

Ramzy Baroud

Education
The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine's Education and Knowledge Systems

The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s Education and Knowledge Systems

By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – Gaza’s education system has suffered significantly since Israel’s bombardment and assault on the strip […]

The Conversation

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War, Trauma, and Forgetting

War, Trauma, and Forgetting

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Our memories are often suppressed by trauma, a word derived from “Traumatiko”, a wound or mental shock. […]

Hugh J. Curran

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians of Gaza are Starving:  Don't Cut Aid

Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

By Phyllis Bennis | ( Otherwords.org ) – Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. […]

OtherWords

nationalism
My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent

My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – (The Conversation) – I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a […]

The Conversation

Dissent
Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: "I won't be Complicit"

Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: “I won’t be Complicit”

Connecticut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Despondence, mixed with commitment, courage, and action, can be a starter for epochal change. Aaron Bushnell set himself […]

Azam Saeed

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