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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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Saudi-owned LIV Golf "Sportswashes" Rights Abuses

Saudi-owned LIV Golf “Sportswashes” Rights Abuses

By Leila Saad, Research Assistant | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is attempting to “sportswash” the country’s egregious […]

Human Rights Watch

censorship
You can’t be for Liberty if you’re for banning Books

You can’t be for Liberty if you’re for banning Books

By Bill Tubbs | – ( Iowa Capital Dispatch) – Two years ago in my column in the North Scott Press, I introduced “Signs that […]

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Africa
Israeli Delegate Expelled from African Union Summit, in what may be First Global South Reaction to new Extremist Netanyahu Government

Israeli Delegate Expelled from African Union Summit, in what may be First Global South Reaction to new Extremist Netanyahu Government

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday at the opening of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Israeli delegate was asked to […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Turkish President Erdoğan’s grip on Power threatened by devastating Earthquake

Turkish President Erdoğan’s grip on Power threatened by devastating Earthquake

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – The earthquake that struck Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023, is first and foremost a human […]

The Conversation

Dissent
'Radical Change Will Come': Iranians Propose New Political System After Months Of Anti-Regime Protests

‘Radical Change Will Come’: Iranians Propose New Political System After Months Of Anti-Regime Protests

( RFE/ RL) – For months, antiestablishment protesters have called for the overthrow of Iran’s clerical regime and demanded greater social and political freedoms. Now, […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Climate Crisis
Northwest Climate Activists, including Native Americans, Target new Oil Pipeline to stop Fossil Fuels

Northwest Climate Activists, including Native Americans, Target new Oil Pipeline to stop Fossil Fuels

Climate groups and Indigenous nations are working to add the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to a long list of defeated fossil fuel transportation projects in […]

Waging Nonviolence

Antarctica
Do we Have Until 2050 to become Carbon Neutral? What if 27 Climate Feedback Loops are Working together to Shorten our Deadline?

Do we Have Until 2050 to become Carbon Neutral? What if 27 Climate Feedback Loops are Working together to Shorten our Deadline?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Feedback loops are central notions in science. There are two kinds, negative and positive. Negative feedback loops, despite their name, […]

Juan Cole

Germany
German States  'unprecedentedly United' for Wind Power, Seeking 80% Green Electricity by 2030

German States ‘unprecedentedly United’ for Wind Power, Seeking 80% Green Electricity by 2030

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The German states have signalled their readiness to expand onshore wind power in the country “in almost unknown unity”, […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Displaced and Refugees
Turkey’s historic city of Antakya, the Roman Antioch, has come back from powerful earthquakes in the past – and rebuilt itself

Turkey’s historic city of Antakya, the Roman Antioch, has come back from powerful earthquakes in the past – and rebuilt itself

By Christine Shepardson, University of Tennessee | – Tens of thousands have died and millions have become homeless in southern Turkey and northern Syria after […]

The Conversation

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