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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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Bill of Rights
Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

Police gone Wild: When the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating

Climate Emergency: Extreme Heat Waves will increase 600% in Israel, Middle East, over 80 years, as 70% of Youth consider Emigrating

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ruth Schuster at Haaretz reports on a new study led by Assaf Hochmann at Hebrew University, finding that extreme heat […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous

Derailments across the Country: Rail Workers Warned Us that Greed Is Dangerous

By Rebekah Entralgo | – ( Otherwords.org ) – The toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are […]

OtherWords

Israel/ Palestine
Israel submits Plans  for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank

Israel submits Plans for 7,000 new Squatter-Settlement Units in Palestinian West Bank

( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli occupation authorities have submitted plans to build 7,157 new settlement units in the E1 area that would bisect Palestinian […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third

Planting more Trees could reduce Heat-Related Deaths in Cities by a Third

By Meelan Thondoo, University of Cambridge; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Australian Catholic University; and Tamara Iungman, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) | – (The Conversation) – […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity

Top 6 Exciting Wind Power Developments in US, as investment in Offshore Wind Triples and Wind Generates 10% of US Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Renewable energy continues to burgeon rapidly in the United States. Here are some of the signs of a major transformation […]

Juan Cole

Banking
$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

$1 trillion in the Shade – the annual Profits that Multinational Corporations shift to Tax Havens continues to Soar

By Ludvig Wier, University of Copenhagen and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – About a decade ago, the world’s biggest […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Chancellor Scholz on Ukraine:  Putin Tried to Blackmail Germany with Fossil Gas, but only Accelerated Energy Diversification

Chancellor Scholz on Ukraine: Putin Tried to Blackmail Germany with Fossil Gas, but only Accelerated Energy Diversification

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Russia’s attempt to blackmail Germany and the rest of Europe into giving up its […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

National Security State
Children of War:  The War on Terror and the Battle for Young Minds

Children of War: The War on Terror and the Battle for Young Minds

( Tomdispatch.com ) – During a Veterans Day celebration in my small Maryland community, a teacher clicked through a slideshow of smiling men and women […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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