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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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Donald Trump
A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024?

A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year […]

Tom Engelhardt

Conspiracy Theories
Super Bowl Conspiracy: How the MAGA Republicans are (Taylor) Swift-Boating Themselves

Super Bowl Conspiracy: How the MAGA Republicans are (Taylor) Swift-Boating Themselves

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I love how Republicans are using the romance of pop star Taylor Swift and football great Travis […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Israel isn't Complying with the International Court of Justice Ruling - What Happens Next?

Israel isn’t Complying with the International Court of Justice Ruling – What Happens Next?

By Basema Al-Alami, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – More than a week has passed since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) mandated […]

The Conversation

Constitution
Federal Appeals Court to Trump: You're a Citizen, not a King, and no you don't have Immunity

Federal Appeals Court to Trump: You’re a Citizen, not a King, and no you don’t have Immunity

By: Jacob Fischler and Ashley Murray – ( Michigan Advance ) – WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for charges he schemed […]

Michigan Advance

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Greater-Israel Advocates see Gaza Crisis as Opportunity for Expansion

Greater-Israel Advocates see Gaza Crisis as Opportunity for Expansion

Storrs, CT (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The media rightly focused attention on a recent “packed gathering” of Israeli leaders and citizens discussing their […]

Jeremy Pressman

Israel/ Palestine
Illusions and Obstacles to any Biden Initiative for a 2-State Solution after the Gaza Conflict

Illusions and Obstacles to any Biden Initiative for a 2-State Solution after the Gaza Conflict

Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – One of the most prominent results of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and Israel’s genocidal war […]

Middle East Monitor

Displaced and Refugees
Gaza: The uncertain Fate of Patients needing Life-Saving Dialysis Treatment

Gaza: The uncertain Fate of Patients needing Life-Saving Dialysis Treatment

By Ali Iqbal, McMaster University; Aliya Khan, McMaster University; and Ben Thomson, Johns Hopkins University | – More than 100 days into the brutal assault […]

The Conversation

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New York Times' Friedman hits new Low with Animalization of Arabs and Iranians

New York Times’ Friedman hits new Low with Animalization of Arabs and Iranians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Calling people animals is a way to dehumanize them, and probably helps convince individuals that the other people around them […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
Biden, Whitmer join in condemnation of Wall Street Journal column accusing Dearborn, MI, of Muslim Radicalism

Biden, Whitmer join in condemnation of Wall Street Journal column accusing Dearborn, MI, of Muslim Radicalism

By: Jon King – ( Michigan Advance ) – Reaction to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece about Dearborn intensified through the weekend, as President […]

Michigan Advance

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