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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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Russia
Is Putin in a Corner?

Is Putin in a Corner?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – When a country starts casting around for 60-year-old veterans to send to the front, you know that something’s […]

John Feffer

Iran
Former Iranian President's Daughter Arrested For Supporting Protests Triggered By Death Of Woman In Custody Over Hijab

Former Iranian President’s Daughter Arrested For Supporting Protests Triggered By Death Of Woman In Custody Over Hijab

By Mohammad Zarghami and Golnaz Esfandiari | – ( RFE/RL ) – Just days after expressing support for the protests in Iran, Faezeh Hashemi, the […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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Irony Officially declared Dead as Israeli Foreign Ministry Decries Russian Annexation of Others' Territory

Irony Officially declared Dead as Israeli Foreign Ministry Decries Russian Annexation of Others’ Territory

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a further sign that all irony is dead, the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the annexation of four Ukrainian districts […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

By Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida | – Unrest continues to erupt across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, who […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Israeli Dilemma over Swedish and Italian Fascism: Fears of Antisemitism, Hopes for Right Wing Solidarity

Israeli Dilemma over Swedish and Italian Fascism: Fears of Antisemitism, Hopes for Right Wing Solidarity

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israelis are watching political developments in Europe with interest, particularly in Sweden and […]

Middle East Monitor

Books
The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

( Tomdispatch.com) – No one listened better than Studs. For those of you old enough to remember, that’s Studs Terkel, of course. The most notable […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
Iranian Teachers' Union charges Gov't with Dishonoring Nation's Girls, Recalling Theme of Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911

Iranian Teachers’ Union charges Gov’t with Dishonoring Nation’s Girls, Recalling Theme of Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So far, the wave of street protests staged in dozens of Iran’s towns and cities appear to have been spontaneous […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change

Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change

By Vrinda Narain, McGill University and Fatemeh Sadeghi, UCL | – On Sept. 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in Tehran, Iran, […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
I saw what turning the Palestinian Village of Masafer Yatta into an Israeli Military ‘Firing Zone’ Means

I saw what turning the Palestinian Village of Masafer Yatta into an Israeli Military ‘Firing Zone’ Means

By Mahmoud Soliman | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Since a ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court on May 4, the Israeli military has been […]

Waging Nonviolence

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