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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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Anti-Abortion Extremism Is Scaring Voters. It Should

Anti-Abortion Extremism Is Scaring Voters. It Should

By Mitchell Zimmerman | – ( Otherwords.org) – Our country may be divided on the issue of abortion. But when it comes down to it, […]

OtherWords

Carbon Footprint
Business can no Longer Ignore Extreme Heat, Climate Emergency as they Threaten Bottom Line

Business can no Longer Ignore Extreme Heat, Climate Emergency as they Threaten Bottom Line

By David Lont, University of Otago; Martien Lubberink, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; and Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis | – […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Sinema goes for Inflation Reduction Act as Princeton’s ZERO Labs deems it will boost Solar Energy 5-Fold

Sinema goes for Inflation Reduction Act as Princeton’s ZERO Labs deems it will boost Solar Energy 5-Fold

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is reported to have signed on to the Schumer-Manchin energy bill, accurately termed the Inflation Reduction […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA

Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA

By Morgan Fischer | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – When the Supreme Court ruled this summer that the EPA could not force […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

By Edgar Meza | – Referencing: Germany’s “PV Magazine”. Photovoltaic systems in Germany generated a new record level of electricity in the month July 2022, […]

Clean Energy Wire

Corporations
The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

By Alice Mah, University of Warwick | – This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the […]

The Conversation

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Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At its meeting in Vienna yesterday, the enlarged “+” version of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC+) decided to […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

By Umar Farooq | – ( ProPublica ) – As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the […]

ProPublica

Dissent
Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

By Haifa Zangana | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Why does the occupation of the Iraqi Parliament building in the Green Zone in […]

Middle East Monitor

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