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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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Adam Lenhart:  "Two Scenes from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" (Concert)

Adam Lenhart: “Two Scenes from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám” (Concert)

Adam Lenhart Music: “Two Scenes from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám – University of Michigan 2023 CoLab Concert Performance” Two Scenes from The Rubáiyát of […]

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Authoritarianism
In Turkey, will one man continue to rule them all? The May 14th elections hold the answer

In Turkey, will one man continue to rule them all? The May 14th elections hold the answer

Written byArzu Geybullayeva     ( Globalvoices.org) – May 14 will go down in the history of Turkish Republic as one of the most important […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

nuclear weapons
90 Seconds to Midnight:  The Doomsday Clock and Me

90 Seconds to Midnight: The Doomsday Clock and Me

(Tomdispatch.com ) – I’m not a TikTok person. I’m too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in […]

Frida Berrigan

Authoritarianism
Leaked Pentagon Report: Israeli Intel Agency Mossad Agitated against Netanyahu's weakening of Courts

Leaked Pentagon Report: Israeli Intel Agency Mossad Agitated against Netanyahu’s weakening of Courts

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – John Hudson and Louisa Loveluck at the Washington Post report that a leak of Pentagon documents reveals that the U.S. […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Physicians:  Ruling banning Abortion Pill could harm Women experiencing Life-threatening  Miscarriages

Physicians: Ruling banning Abortion Pill could harm Women experiencing Life-threatening Miscarriages

By Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick   A Texas federal judge with a history of anti-abortion beliefs has thrown into jeopardy the most common form […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Opposition Leader Lapid Blames PM Netanyahu for Putting Extremist over al-Aqsa Mosque as 140,000 Palestinians Defiantly Worship

Israeli Opposition Leader Lapid Blames PM Netanyahu for Putting Extremist over al-Aqsa Mosque as 140,000 Palestinians Defiantly Worship

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Friday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of causing a disaster by assigning […]

Middle East Monitor

Antarctica
New Research shows how rapidly Ice Sheets can Retreat: Antarctica’s Melt alone could raise Sea Level 171 Feet

New Research shows how rapidly Ice Sheets can Retreat: Antarctica’s Melt alone could raise Sea Level 171 Feet

By Christine Batchelor, Newcastle University and Frazer Christie, University of Cambridge | – The Antarctic Ice Sheet, which covers an area greater than the US […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The last Time there was this much CO2, there were Sabertooth Tigers, California Monsoons and an Undersea Florida

The last Time there was this much CO2, there were Sabertooth Tigers, California Monsoons and an Undersea Florida

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that for the 11th consecutive year, human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Brought Israeli Extremists to Power and Seeks more Arab Recognition;  He can’t have Both

Netanyahu Brought Israeli Extremists to Power and Seeks more Arab Recognition; He can’t have Both

Dr Adnan Abu Amer AdnanAbuAmer2   There are concerns in Israel that the path towards normalisation with more Arab countries is no longer smooth in […]

Middle East Monitor

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