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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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Climate Crisis
Why is 104 °F (40°C) is bearable in a Desert but Lethal in the Tropics

Why is 104 °F (40°C) is bearable in a Desert but Lethal in the Tropics

By Alan Thomas Kennedy-Asser, University of Bristol; Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol; and Eunice Lo, University of Bristol | – (The Conversation) – This year, […]

The Conversation

Bahrain
Saudi Arabia Executes Two Shia Bahrainis on Terrorism Charges in "Grossly Unfair" Trial

Saudi Arabia Executes Two Shia Bahrainis on Terrorism Charges in “Grossly Unfair” Trial

By Leila Saad | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Two Bahraini Shi’a men have been executed in Saudi Arabia following what Amnesty International described […]

Human Rights Watch

China
India, 3rd biggest CO2 Emitter, will Pause new Coal Plants for 5 Years in favor of Batteries, New Solar

India, 3rd biggest CO2 Emitter, will Pause new Coal Plants for 5 Years in favor of Batteries, New Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sibi Arasu at the Associated Press reports that the Indian government is going to pause new coal plants for 5 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

By Rita Issa, University of East Anglia | – It was getting hotter. Frank May got off his mat and padded over to look out […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Smoking Gun: Trump's Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Smoking Gun: Trump’s Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Trump murdered several people by drone at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, including Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani, […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist Alliance and their ‘Family Values’ Pledges

Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist Alliance and their ‘Family Values’ Pledges

Balki Begumhan Bayhan, Coventry University | – (The Conversation) – After a bitter and hard-fought campaign that went to a second run-off vote, Recep Tayyip […]

The Conversation

Environment
Environmental Hazard: How Russia's War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

Environmental Hazard: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has resulted in the deaths so far of more than 8,700 Ukrainian civilians, […]

John Feffer

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