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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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Climate Crisis
Working with Local Knowledge only way to save Pakistan from Flood Disasters

Working with Local Knowledge only way to save Pakistan from Flood Disasters

By Daanish Mustafa | – ( The Third Pole) – How would a decolonised water perspective and practice mitigate the effects of the type of […]

The Third Pole

Climate Crisis
Egypt, among Countries most Threatened by Climate Emergency, Cripples Environmental Groups

Egypt, among Countries most Threatened by Climate Emergency, Cripples Environmental Groups

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Egyptian government has severely curtailed environmental groups’ ability to carry out independent policy, advocacy, and field work essential […]

Human Rights Watch

Iran
Iran and the US appear unlikely to reach a new Nuclear Deal – leaving Everyone more Unsafe

Iran and the US appear unlikely to reach a new Nuclear Deal – leaving Everyone more Unsafe

By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – (The Conversation) – Iran’s standoff with the United States over its […]

The Conversation

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Muslim Americans are Young, Patriotic and Bullish on this Country, and are not to Blame for 9/11

Muslim Americans are Young, Patriotic and Bullish on this Country, and are not to Blame for 9/11

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yesterday, America observed a commemoration of 21 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda on key US targets. […]

Juan Cole

Pollution
9/11 Survivors’ exposure to Toxic Dust and the chronic Health Conditions that followed offer Lessons that are still too often Unheeded

9/11 Survivors’ exposure to Toxic Dust and the chronic Health Conditions that followed offer Lessons that are still too often Unheeded

By Roberto Lucchini, Florida International University | – (The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in […]

The Conversation

Agriculture
Food Sovereignty vs. Food Aid: Why Small-Scale Farming Suffers

Food Sovereignty vs. Food Aid: Why Small-Scale Farming Suffers

( Tabsir.net ) – The early major civilizations in the Middle East and Asia with their head start several millennia ago had one thing in […]

Daniel Martin Varisco

Arms Sales
Spending Unlimited: Contractors Cash in as Congress Adds Billions to the Pentagon Budget

Spending Unlimited: Contractors Cash in as Congress Adds Billions to the Pentagon Budget

By Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Congress has spoken when it comes to next year’s Pentagon budget and the […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Solar Power in US to grow by Factor of 3 by 2027 after IRA, Saving us from Climate Disasters and Lung Cancer (yes)

Solar Power in US to grow by Factor of 3 by 2027 after IRA, Saving us from Climate Disasters and Lung Cancer (yes)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Because of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), energy analysis firm Wood MacKenzie has increased its estimation of how much […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
U.S. House Members raise Objections to Manchin Deal fast-tracking Coal, Oil, Gas Projects

U.S. House Members raise Objections to Manchin Deal fast-tracking Coal, Oil, Gas Projects

By Jacob Fischler | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – More than 50 U.S. House members are objecting to a push to revise federal environmental […]

Minnesota Reformer

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