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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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Peace
The Intolerable Price You Pay:  A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day

The Intolerable Price You Pay: A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – [Denton-Borhaug will give a version of this talk virtually to Veterans for Peace Chapter 102 at a Reclaim Armistice Day […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
The GOP Clown Car Crashes and Burns, but Nikki Haley didn't get the Message, calls for Warnock to be "Deported"

The GOP Clown Car Crashes and Burns, but Nikki Haley didn’t get the Message, calls for Warnock to be “Deported”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump era brought to the fore in the Republican Party an assortment of Nazi militiamen, internet trolls masquerading as […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah

Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah

By Osama Gaweesh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdelfattah wrote a book with the title You have […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Egypt’s Systemic Greenwashing is sabotaging COP27 before it Begins

Egypt’s Systemic Greenwashing is sabotaging COP27 before it Begins

By Sydney Allen | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The largest international environmental conference, COP27, is set to kick off on November 6 in Sharm […]

Global Voices

Reproductive Choice
In first nationwide Election since Roe was Overturned, Voters opt to protect Abortion Access

In first nationwide Election since Roe was Overturned, Voters opt to protect Abortion Access

By Linda C. McClain, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University | – The first major election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party
Biden Holds Red Wave to a Ripple, as Trump Loses Big Time in Midterms

Biden Holds Red Wave to a Ripple, as Trump Loses Big Time in Midterms

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Over the past 40 years, midterm elections have typically been quiet affairs in which only 38% to 40% of voters […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel: The Right-Wing Netanyahu is Back but can he Govern with Far, Far Right "Allies"?

Israel: The Right-Wing Netanyahu is Back but can he Govern with Far, Far Right “Allies”?

By Guy Ziv, American University School of International Service | – Israel’s political magician has done it again. Having been turned out of office in […]

The Conversation

Syria
Syria: Parties to the Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic  (HRW)

Syria: Parties to the Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are exacerbating an acute water crisis that is believed to have given rise to the deadly cholera […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
With Israeli Expulsionists in Power, US SecState Blinken can’t Assuage Palestinian Fears With talk of defunct “Two-State Solution”

With Israeli Expulsionists in Power, US SecState Blinken can’t Assuage Palestinian Fears With talk of defunct “Two-State Solution”

( Middle East Monitor) – With Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu set to return as Israeli prime minister, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Palestinian […]

Ramona Wadi

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