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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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John Lecarre On Iraq Intelligence

John Lecarre On Iraq Intelligence

John LeCarre on Iraq Intelligence Failure From Laura Miller’s recent interview in Salon.com with the famed spy novelist David Cornwell and former British foreign service […]

Juan Cole

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10 Members Of Iraqi Civil Defense Force

10 Members Of Iraqi Civil Defense Force

10 Members of Iraqi Civil Defense Force wounded in Blast Guerrillas in the northeastern town of Baquba donated a big bomb, targeting a patrol of […]

Juan Cole

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10000 Shiites Protest In Nasiriyah Seek

10000 Shiites Protest In Nasiriyah Seek

10,000 Shiites Protest in Nasiriyah, seek Resignation of Provincial Council Az-Zaman newspaper reports that Muqtada al-Sadr’s organization staged a demonstration of 10,000 in the southern […]

Juan Cole

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Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate As Iraqi

Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate As Iraqi

Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate as Iraqi Executive AFP/al-Zaman report that Adnan Pachachi, the octogenarian interim president of the Iraqi Governing Council, envisages that the new transitional […]

Juan Cole

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Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair

Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair

Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair Government’s Exaggerations Seumas Milne of the Guardian argues that the report by Lord Hutton on the David Kelly affair is biased […]

Juan Cole

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Bomb At Baghdad Hotel Kills 3 In Other

Bomb At Baghdad Hotel Kills 3 In Other

Bomb at Baghdad Hotel kills 3; In other attacks, 6 US Troops Killed, 2 CNN Employees, 4 Iraqi Policemen; 6 US troops Wounded There was […]

Juan Cole

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Humanitarian Grounds For Iraq War Re

Humanitarian Grounds For Iraq War Re

Humanitarian Grounds for Iraq War? Re: Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth, “War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention“, 26 January 2004, Keynote essay […]

Juan Cole

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Sachedina Interview By Cobban Sistani

Sachedina Interview By Cobban Sistani

Sachedina Interview by Cobban: Sistani is Trying to Bring in the UN Helena Cobban’s interview with Shiite thinker Abdulaziz Sachedina of the University of Virginia […]

Juan Cole

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