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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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In Sign of Turkey-Israel Thaw, a Joint Project is inked to build the World's Largest Wave Power Plant on Black Sea

In Sign of Turkey-Israel Thaw, a Joint Project is inked to build the World’s Largest Wave Power Plant on Black Sea

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has had a rocky relationship with Israel, which Turkey has long recognized and with which it […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iranian Protesters turn to TikTok to get their Message past Government Censors

Iranian Protesters turn to TikTok to get their Message past Government Censors

By Whitney Shylee May, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts | – Images of the protests that followed the death of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Heard the Phrase ‘Illegal Israeli Settlements?’  *All* such Squatter-Settlements are Illegal

Heard the Phrase ‘Illegal Israeli Settlements?’ *All* such Squatter-Settlements are Illegal

By Sari Al-Qudwa | – ( Middle East Monitor) – All Israeli settlements violate Article 49, paragraph six, of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Inferno: Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet into a Tinderbox

Inferno: Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet into a Tinderbox

By Jane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Mike Savala’s boots scuffed the edge of a singed patch of forest littered with skinny fingers […]

Tomdispatch

Batteries
Rapid Move to Wind and Solar Power would Save the world $12 Trillion: Oxford Study

Rapid Move to Wind and Solar Power would Save the world $12 Trillion: Oxford Study

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of power by 2050 will save the world $12 trillion, according […]

Juan Cole

History
Mehran Kamrava, ‘Triumph and Despair: in Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic’  (Review)

Mehran Kamrava, ‘Triumph and Despair: in Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic’ (Review)

Review of Mehran Kamrava, Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – During […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Authoritarianism
Iran:  Two Protesters Executed in Grossly Unfair Trials, Several More in Danger (HRW)

Iran: Two Protesters Executed in Grossly Unfair Trials, Several More in Danger (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities’ execution of two men in connection with widespread antigovernment protests is a gross miscarriage of justice and […]

Human Rights Watch

Agriculture
One Third of the Food Americans Buy is Wasted, Hurting the Climate and Consumers' Wallets

One Third of the Food Americans Buy is Wasted, Hurting the Climate and Consumers’ Wallets

By Brian E. Roe, The Ohio State University | – You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: […]

The Conversation

Children
UN: 11,000 Boys and Girls have been Killed or Wounded in the Yemeni War that the US backed

UN: 11,000 Boys and Girls have been Killed or Wounded in the Yemeni War that the US backed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UN News reports that 11,000 boys and girls are estimated to have been killed or wounded by direct violence in […]

Juan Cole

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