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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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Zogby Criticizes Cheney Use Of Zogby

Zogby Criticizes Cheney Use Of Zogby

Zogby Criticizes Cheney Use of Zogby Poll The Zogby polling group did a sounding in Iraq last month, some results of which were trumpeted by […]

Juan Cole

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Dozens Demonstrate In Baghdad Against

Dozens Demonstrate In Baghdad Against

Dozens Demonstrate in Baghdad against Desecration of Koran It started with a minor incident. A female employee going into the Ministry of Petroleum had to […]

Juan Cole

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Evangelicals In Congress Seek To Shape

Evangelicals In Congress Seek To Shape

Evangelicals in Congress seek to Shape Iraqi Constitution Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. have inserted provisions into the legislation that would […]

Juan Cole

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Igc Moves Against Sadr Militia In

Igc Moves Against Sadr Militia In

IGC moves Against Sadr Militia in Karbala The Interim Governing Council sent Iraqi police into the al-Mukayam mosque in the holy city of Karbala Tuesday […]

Juan Cole

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Human Rights Watch Us Killings Of

Human Rights Watch Us Killings Of

Human Rights Watch: US killings of Civilians are not Investigated Human Rights Watch maintains that US troops have killed over a hundred Iraqi civlians over […]

Juan Cole

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Authority Of Sistani Versus Muqtada Al

Authority Of Sistani Versus Muqtada Al

Authority of Sistani versus Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq Alex Berenson argues in the NYT that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has much wider support among Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Armed Sadrists Take Back Their Hq Near

Armed Sadrists Take Back Their Hq Near

Armed Sadrists take Back their HQ near Basra Shaikh Murtada al-Hajjaj, the assistant head of the office of Muqtada al-Sadr in Basra, said that 100 […]

Juan Cole

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Igc Hopes New Finances Will Grant More

Igc Hopes New Finances Will Grant More

IGC hopes new Finances will Grant more Autonomy from US Some of the reasons for which the US did not initially want a separate fund […]

Juan Cole

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Iranian Intelligence Infiltrates

Iranian Intelligence Infiltrates

Iranian Intelligence Infiltrates Karbala Abdul Hussein Mahmoud, the caretaker of the mausoleum of Imam Husayn in Karbala alleges that Iranian intelligence agents have slipped into […]

Juan Cole

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