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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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Urdu Press Blames US for Crisis

Urdu Press Blames US for Crisis

While Gen. Musharraf maintains that he was forced to make his most recent coup by the threat of Muslim extremism, many of Pakistan’s Urdu newspapers […]

Juan Cole

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State of Emergency in Pakistan

State of Emergency in Pakistan

Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf has made a second coup. Over his eight years of military dictatorship, he had dressed his government up in the outward […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Female US Soldier Killed Bush Envoy Resigns over Unfair Policies toward Turks

Female US Soldier Killed Bush Envoy Resigns over Unfair Policies toward Turks

Barnett Rubin at our Global Affairs site is live-blogging the state of emergency in Pakistan, declared by Gen Pervez Musharraf. My essay, “Combating Muslim Extremism,” […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Oaths, the Constitution, and the US Embassy in Iraq

Oaths, the Constitution, and the US Embassy in Iraq

The Bush administration is taking a hard line on dragooning civilian Foreign Service Officers into serving in the war zone of Iraq. The article contains […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Curveball is Alive

Curveball is Alive

It isn’t surprising that Iraqi expatriates like Curveball should be trying to peddle a load of horse manure about Iraqi ‘weapons programs’ in the early […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
More on the Need to Close down the US Embassy in Baghdad

More on the Need to Close down the US Embassy in Baghdad

More on the need to pressure Congress to close the US embassy in Baghdad (see below). First, here is some correspondence: ‘As a retired foreign […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Time to Close the US Embassy

Time to Close the US Embassy

I don’t try to start an internet campaign very often, because the blogosphere has its own priorities and logic that are democratic and should not […]

Juan Cole

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Anti-Gay Church Fined by Court Can Robertson be far Behind?

Anti-Gay Church Fined by Court Can Robertson be far Behind?

A jury has found an independent “Baptist” church (which doesn’t actually appear to have anything to do with the Baptist Church) in Topeka, KS, guilty […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

In my absence, my readers are making what seem to me especially substantial, informed and incisive comments, and several of those posted today seemed to […]

Juan Cole

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