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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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Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on the ways Americans could effect a more equal society: Reich wants to cap the size […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Something about hope Since coming to office in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has done everything to spell out the profound difference between his administration […]

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Climate Change
Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please?  (Kramer & Pemberton)

Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please? (Kramer & Pemberton)

Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton write at Tomdispatch.com A trillion dollars.  It’s a lot of money.  In a year it could send 127 million college […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Iran’s Rouhani: Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Ann Curry of NBC News gets a scoop, with an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in which he restates Iran’s position that it is […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Climate change produced by human burning of fossil fuels is a dire challenge to life as we know it on earth, and it will likely […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Brazilian President Snubs Obama:   How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

Brazilian President Snubs Obama: How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

The USG Open Source Center reports on Brazilian press reaction to President Dilma Roussef’s decision to cancel her state visit to Washington DC this fall, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Solar Car of the Future:  Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Solar Car of the Future: Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Giles Parkinson writes that this year Sunswift is making a revolutionary and exciting entry in the annual University of New South Wales solar car competition: […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Dear Whistleblower, I don’t know who you are or what you do or how old you may be. I just […]

Juan Cole

Syria
UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

When reports of a chemical weapons attack in Rif Dimashq near Damascus on August 21 first surfaced, some observers questioned whether these were really chemical […]

Juan Cole

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