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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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Deep Democratization in Egypt: How Women are Driving the Changes (Krause)

Deep Democratization in Egypt: How Women are Driving the Changes (Krause)

Wanda Krause writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Political analysts writing on Egypt have tended to focus on the missteps of President Mohamed […]

Juan Cole

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Lawmakers Threaten Brooklyn College for Event on Boycott of Israel over Settlements  (Democracy Now!)

Lawmakers Threaten Brooklyn College for Event on Boycott of Israel over Settlements (Democracy Now!)

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! reports on the attempt of far right-wing partisans of Israel to quash a courtesy sponsorship by the Department of Political Science […]

Juan Cole

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Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)

Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)

Bill Moyers discusses with his guests the question of “Drones and Democracy” The blurb for the show from BillMoyers.com: Vicki Divoll and Vincent Warren on […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy!  (Greenpeace)

Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy! (Greenpeace)

Greenpeace USA explains: Big Coal plans to get around Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on toxic emissions by just shipping the coal abroad to countries that […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo

Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo

NBC’s Michael Isikoff has revealed the text of a white paper composed for Congress by the Department of Justice that sheds light on the legal […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Paranoia Strikes Deep:  A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)

Paranoia Strikes Deep: A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past.  In its wake, President Obama […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)

Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)

Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” reports on the leaked drone memo authorizing killing of American citizens abroad at the president’s order: The blurb for the show: […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls' Education

Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls’ Education

Malala Yousafzai has released two videos in the past few days, one before her surgery to put a plate in her skull, and after she […]

Juan Cole

Africa

US Covert Drone War in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia – Jan. Update (Woods et al.)

Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Yemen was hit by the highest number of airstrikes in […]

Juan Cole

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