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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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Israel/ Palestine
New Israeli Power Broker seeks to rewrite History to justify Violence against Palestinians

New Israeli Power Broker seeks to rewrite History to justify Violence against Palestinians

By Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska Omaha | – (The Conversation) – A right-wing Israeli politician is trying to recast a key part of American […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's has always been a 'Religious War': On Ben-Gvir and the Slipperiness of Zionism

Israel’s has always been a ‘Religious War’: On Ben-Gvir and the Slipperiness of Zionism

( Middle East Monitor ) – In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behaviour at the just-conquered […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Saudi Arabia must release Two of its Citizens Jailed for editing Wikipedia

Saudi Arabia must release Two of its Citizens Jailed for editing Wikipedia

By Advox | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Osama Khaled (L) and Ziyad Sufyani (R), two wikipedians who have been sentenced to 32 and 8 years […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
EU, IEA:  Next 10 Years will See Greatest Industrial Transformation of our Times

EU, IEA: Next 10 Years will See Greatest Industrial Transformation of our Times

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Six million workers are employed globally in the $217 billion green energy industry today. But in only 8 years, they […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Is Israel's Netanyahu even worse than Trump?

Is Israel’s Netanyahu even worse than Trump?

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – The parallel trajectories of far-far right politicians accruing more power in the US and Israel is striking. Elements […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Authoritarianism
Iranians In Kurdish Sanandaj Renew Call For Regime Change At Gathering To Mark Protester’s Death

Iranians In Kurdish Sanandaj Renew Call For Regime Change At Gathering To Mark Protester’s Death

By Ardeshir Tayebi – ( RFE/RL ) – Iranians in the western city of Sanandaj have marked the end of a 40-day mourning period for […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Pentagon
Is America’s bottomless Corporate Welfare for Arms Industry actually Making us Less Safe?

Is America’s bottomless Corporate Welfare for Arms Industry actually Making us Less Safe?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Late last month, President Biden signed a bill that clears the way for $858 billion in Pentagon spending and nuclear weapons […]

William D. Hartung

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Billionaires Gobbled up 2/3s of New Wealth at $2.7 bn/ day, as 800 million go to bed Hungry: Oxfam

Billionaires Gobbled up 2/3s of New Wealth at $2.7 bn/ day, as 800 million go to bed Hungry: Oxfam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Oxfam , the British charity, has released a new report finding that the global problem of wealth inequality is growing […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: Brute Force Used in Crackdown on Dissent

Iran: Brute Force Used in Crackdown on Dissent

( Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities used excessive and lethal force in their clampdown on nationwide protests that broke out in September […]

Human Rights Watch

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