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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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Afghanistan
The volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girls

The volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girls

By Deepa Parent | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In 2002, when Matiullah Wesa was a teenager, armed gunmen burned his school. It was this, he […]

Open Democracy

Climate Crisis
Next US energy boom could be wind power in the Gulf of Mexico

Next US energy boom could be wind power in the Gulf of Mexico

By Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin and Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin | – With passage of the Inflation Reduction […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Is Moral Clarity even Possible anymore in Donald Trump's America?

Is Moral Clarity even Possible anymore in Donald Trump’s America?

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Recent episodes of purposeful and accidental truth-telling brought to my mind the latest verbal lapse by George W. […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
As Last Coal Plant closes, Cheap Solar Power Rescues Hawaii, which has reached ~40% Renewables

As Last Coal Plant closes, Cheap Solar Power Rescues Hawaii, which has reached ~40% Renewables

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Veteran green energy journalist Julian Spector at Canary Media tells the story of how the last-minute opening this July of […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Biden Calls on Syria to Return Journalist 'Disappeared' a Decade Ago

Biden Calls on Syria to Return Journalist ‘Disappeared’ a Decade Ago

( Human Rights Watch ) – Last week, US President Joe Biden declared that the US knows “with certainty” that Tice has been held by […]

Human Rights Watch

Dissent
Digital Authoritarianism in Turkey

Digital Authoritarianism in Turkey

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva< | - Authoritarian regimes have long had a complicated relationship with media and communications technologies. The Unfreedom Monitor is a Global […]

Global Voices

Displaced and Refugees
How displaced Syrians effectively navigated ‘border frictions’ in Lebanon and Turkey

How displaced Syrians effectively navigated ‘border frictions’ in Lebanon and Turkey

By Suzan Ilcan, University of Waterloo and Secil Dagtas, University of Waterloo | – The Syrian conflict began in early March 2011 on the heels […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Why Fightin' Joe Biden may be the most Consequential President in Forty Years

Why Fightin’ Joe Biden may be the most Consequential President in Forty Years

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Joe Biden has been easy for the pundit class to write off. He isn’t, unlike Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban in Power – One Year On

Taliban in Power – One Year On

By Amina Khan | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in […]

Middle East Monitor

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