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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
Minnesota House passes Bill mandating Move to Carbon-Free Electricity by 2040

Minnesota House passes Bill mandating Move to Carbon-Free Electricity by 2040

By Michelle Griffith | – ( The Minnesota Reformer ) – The Minnesota House passed a bill late Thursday that would force Minnesota utilities to […]

Minnesota Reformer

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Israeli Squatters go wild in Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank, attacking Palestinians, Cars, Shops and Olive Orchards

Israeli Squatters go wild in Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank, attacking Palestinians, Cars, Shops and Olive Orchards

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday evening and Sunday, the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank descended into an orgy of violence on the part of […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
May 14 will be Turkey’s Most Consequential Election in History

May 14 will be Turkey’s Most Consequential Election in History

( Globalvoices.org) – This year marks the 100th year since the founding of the Republic of Turkey. May 14 of this year will also mark […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Climate Crisis
Exxon Scientists Accurately Forecast Climate Change back in the 1970s – What if it hadn’t been Covered up and We had Acted

Exxon Scientists Accurately Forecast Climate Change back in the 1970s – What if it hadn’t been Covered up and We had Acted

By John Grant, Sheffield Hallam University | – Writers of speculative- and science-fiction often identify a key point in time and explore how a seemingly […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Netanyahu Proposes More Guns to Solve Israeli-Palestinian Violence as Tit-for-Tat Attacks Multiply

Netanyahu Proposes More Guns to Solve Israeli-Palestinian Violence as Tit-for-Tat Attacks Multiply

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although violence between Israelis and Palestinians only rose to the level of being covered by cable television news on Saturday, […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
Classified into Paralysis

Classified into Paralysis

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – It looks like Donald Trump gets off the hook for his defiant mishandling of classified documents. If former vice […]

Michael G. Roskin

African-Americans
Pain of Police Killings ripples outward to traumatize Black People and Communities across US

Pain of Police Killings ripples outward to traumatize Black People and Communities across US

By Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel

Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel

By Nasim Ahmed ( Middle east Monitor ) – I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a […]

Middle East Monitor

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