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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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Residents of Misafer Yatta -- Being Slowly Ethnically Cleansed by Israel --- take Refuge in Caves

Residents of Misafer Yatta — Being Slowly Ethnically Cleansed by Israel — take Refuge in Caves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli usurpation of nine Palestinian hamlets of Misafer Yatta near Hebron has driven some of the residents to shelter […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iranian Women’s Rights Activists face new online Threats

Iranian Women’s Rights Activists face new online Threats

By Azin Mohajerin and Sussan Tahmasebi | – ( Globalvoices.org) – In May 2022, dozens of Instagram pages belonging to Iranian women’s rights activists received […]

Global Voices

Food Security
Hunger is increasing worldwide but Women bear the Brunt of Food Insecurity

Hunger is increasing worldwide but Women bear the Brunt of Food Insecurity

By Carol Richards, Queensland University of Technology; and Rudolf Messner, Queensland University of Technology | – Recent UN data on food insecurity paints a bleak […]

The Conversation

Agriculture
Climate Emergency Hits German Farms as Harvests Remain Meager

Climate Emergency Hits German Farms as Harvests Remain Meager

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The ongoing drought in Germany is expected to have dire effects on this year’s […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Pakistan: Climate Emergency-Driven, biblical Floods affect 33 million People Leave Millions Homeless

Pakistan: Climate Emergency-Driven, biblical Floods affect 33 million People Leave Millions Homeless

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Heavy flooding in southern Pakistan has destroyed or damaged 670,000 homes, according to Reliefweb. During an ordinary monsoon season in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Will 2022 Mark the Turning Point in the Climate Crisis?

Will 2022 Mark the Turning Point in the Climate Crisis?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) Over the last six months, the world took a giant step backward in its efforts to address the current climate […]

John Feffer

Bill of Rights
The Real Cancel Culture:  Anti-Palestinianism and the Crisis of American Free Speech

The Real Cancel Culture: Anti-Palestinianism and the Crisis of American Free Speech

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The firing of Palestinian American woman, Natalie Abulhawa, has sparked a debate over free-speech, […]

Middle East Monitor

Nuclear Energy
Ukraine War being Fought around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant:  What could Possibly Go wrong?

Ukraine War being Fought around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant: What could Possibly Go wrong?

By Najmedin Meshkati, University of Southern California | – Russian forces occupy Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in the Ukrainian […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
California to Require All New Car Purchases in 2035 to be Electric, in Massive Change for Auto Industry

California to Require All New Car Purchases in 2035 to be Electric, in Massive Change for Auto Industry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The California Air Resources Board has ruled that no all-gasoline cars can be sold new in California by 2035, according […]

Juan Cole

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