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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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Will Israel's Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I’d saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
Can the Collapse of West Antarctica's Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

Can the Collapse of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, and Nick Golledge | – ( The Conversation) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to […]

The Conversation

CO2
Sordid Advantage: America can't avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Sordid Advantage: America can’t avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t […]

Juan Cole

China
The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

( Tomdispatch.com) – This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a […]

Michael T. Klare

Armenia
After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( GlobalVoices.org) – Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 during the first Karabakh war in a show of […]

Global Voices

Employment
How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

By Arvind Magesan | – Applied economists spend a large fraction of their time trying to squeeze meaningful answers — causal effects — out of […]

The Conversation

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Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, some thirty militant Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives from […]

Juan Cole

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