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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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Energy
Why the US needs Electric Cars:  Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US

Why the US needs Electric Cars: Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US

The royal family of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no constitution and no elected legislature, is in a snit about US foreign policy. King […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Rights Groups: Some US Drone Strikes are War Crimes (Oldroyd)

Rights Groups: Some US Drone Strikes are War Crimes (Oldroyd)

Rachel Oldroyd writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Leading human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have raised serious concerns about the […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
Egypt's Coptic Christians Protest Killing by Fundamentalists of 4 at Church

Egypt’s Coptic Christians Protest Killing by Fundamentalists of 4 at Church

Coptic Christians in Egypt staged a big demonstration on Monday to protest the shooting deaths of four church-goers at the Church of the Virgin in […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
America may Shutter the Gov’t, but not the Gov’t’s Wars (Astore)

America may Shutter the Gov’t, but not the Gov’t’s Wars (Astore)

William J. Astore writes at Tomdispatch: There is a new normal in America: our government may shut down, but our wars continue.  Congress may not […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Settlers Chop down more Palestinian Olive Trees (having destroyed 800,000 since 1967)

Israeli Settlers Chop down more Palestinian Olive Trees (having destroyed 800,000 since 1967)

Israeli settlers over the weekend used chain saws to destroy some 100 Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut village near the West Bank city of Nablus. […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Sanders: Climate Change more Menacing than Terrorism (Germanos)

Sanders: Climate Change more Menacing than Terrorism (Germanos)

Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams.org: In a newly published interview, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasts the "unfettered capitalism" that has collapsed the middle class, and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News

Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News

Since many mainstream media outlets in the US are burying the dramatic climate change stories from all around the world, either by not reporting them […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia in Unprecedented Withdrawal from UN Security Council over Syria, Palestine

Saudi Arabia in Unprecedented Withdrawal from UN Security Council over Syria, Palestine

Saudi Arabia mysteriously withdrew, after having campaigned for and won a seat on the UN Security Council. They said it was over Western inaction on […]

Juan Cole

Drones
As Pakistan says US Drones killed 400 Civilians, UN Report Demands US Data (Ross)

As Pakistan says US Drones killed 400 Civilians, UN Report Demands US Data (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: A report by a UN expert urges the US to ‘release its own data on […]

Juan Cole

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