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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
Can the UN be Reformed?  Turkish President Erdogan’s “A Fairer World is Possible.”  – A Review

Can the UN be Reformed? Turkish President Erdogan’s “A Fairer World is Possible.” – A Review

Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) – I avoid reading books written by politicians. They are all too often nothing more than exercises in […]

John Hickman

nuclear weapons
Ukraine war: Putin calls up more Troops and threatens Nuclear Option - But is it a Sign of Weakness?

Ukraine war: Putin calls up more Troops and threatens Nuclear Option – But is it a Sign of Weakness?

By Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tatyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy | – Declaring a partial mobilisation and threatening the use of […]

The Conversation

Iran
What Really Drives Israeli Politicians' Posturing over Revival of Iran Nuclear Deal?

What Really Drives Israeli Politicians’ Posturing over Revival of Iran Nuclear Deal?

By Motasem A. Dalloul | – Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited himself for a security meeting with Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid […]

Middle East Monitor

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Fourth Day of Anti-Veil Protests Shake Iran

Fourth Day of Anti-Veil Protests Shake Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Tuesday Iran saw a fourth day of protests kicked off by the death in custody last week of Mahsa […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Roots of White Rage

Roots of White Rage

Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment) Recent development show just how divided the United States of America really is. The latest polling shows that 72% of […]

Peter G. Prontzos

Israel/ Palestine
Will the United Nations ever deliver Justice for Palestine?

Will the United Nations ever deliver Justice for Palestine?

( Middle East Monitor ) – In his anticipated speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected […]

Ramzy Baroud

Domestic Surveillance
Donald Trump’s Document Grab and the Dismantling of Democracy

Donald Trump’s Document Grab and the Dismantling of Democracy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to Donald Trump, secrecy is big news these days. However, as political pundits and legal experts race to expose the […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Climate Crisis
Scientists Conclude Climate Change Contributed to 1/3 of Pakistan being Under Water; Calls for Debt Relief

Scientists Conclude Climate Change Contributed to 1/3 of Pakistan being Under Water; Calls for Debt Relief

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The massive monsoon floods that affected 33 million people in Pakistan, destroyed 1.3 million homes, turned the southern province of […]

Juan Cole

Iran
The US-Iran Conflict: Review of “Republics of Myth”

The US-Iran Conflict: Review of “Republics of Myth”

Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – Review of Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman, Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict (Baltimore: […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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