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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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Health
Medicare Dis-Advantage: Shortchanging the Patients While Enriching the Insurer

Medicare Dis-Advantage: Shortchanging the Patients While Enriching the Insurer

By Leonard Rodberg | – ( Commondreams.org) – Advocates of universal health care are currently battling the effort by corporate forces, both outside and within […]

Common Dreams

Democratic Party
MAGA GOP Complains about Biden's "Semi-Fascism" Jibe; Also MAGA GOP: There will be Blood in the Streets

MAGA GOP Complains about Biden’s “Semi-Fascism” Jibe; Also MAGA GOP: There will be Blood in the Streets

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden told donors at a fundraising dinner a few days ago, “”The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
Expanding the Occupation of Palestinians in the Name of Jesus

Expanding the Occupation of Palestinians in the Name of Jesus

Most people agree that imperialism has been a very bad thing for the world. American Indian leader Dennis Means addressed a capacity crowd at the […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Afghanistan
End America's Collective Punishment of Afghans

End America’s Collective Punishment of Afghans

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – A year has now passed since the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from decades of war […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Arctic
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise

By Alun Hubbard, University of Tromsø | – I’m standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerized by a mind-blowing scene of natural […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Netherlands innovates with Floating Solar Panels in Sea, Locally-owned Wind Farm Cooperative

Netherlands innovates with Floating Solar Panels in Sea, Locally-owned Wind Farm Cooperative

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Netherlands was long a laggard regarding the green energy revolution and combating the climate emergency, perhaps in part because […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
“Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia” – A Review

“Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia” – A Review

Bonn (Special to Informed Comment) – Review of Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (London: Pluto Press, 2022). “This book might make you uncomfortable, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Antisemitism
Has the Ukraine War Kicked off the 4th Modern Exodus of Jews from Russia?

Has the Ukraine War Kicked off the 4th Modern Exodus of Jews from Russia?

By Stephen Hall, University of Bath | – It’s not the first time that Jews have felt it necessary to flee Russia, but the invasion […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The White House Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: How Trump turned the American Dream into the American Scream

The White House Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: How Trump turned the American Dream into the American Scream

( Tomdispatch.com) – Honestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face. […]

Tom Engelhardt

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