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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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Free Syrian Army
Joe Biden’s pledge of support reassures Syria’s embattled Kurds

Joe Biden’s pledge of support reassures Syria’s embattled Kurds

By Cengiz Gunes – | The hasty and badly organised US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August prompted fears among Washington’s other allies about the durability […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party
It isn't Red COVID, it is Republican Necrophilia - Creepy Love of Death

It isn’t Red COVID, it is Republican Necrophilia – Creepy Love of Death

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United States has crossed the threshold of 700,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 according to data from Johns Hopkins University. […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Big Money’s War on Biden's Popular Build Back Better Plan

Big Money’s War on Biden’s Popular Build Back Better Plan

By Sondra Youdelman | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Right now, corporations and the ultra-rich are spending millions to derail President Biden’s Build Back Better […]

OtherWords

Campaign Finance
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

By Diannie Chavez and Brenda Rivas | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s refusal to back the Biden administration’s […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

By Taha Yasseri and Mary Sanford | – Ten years ago, when we ranked the most controversial articles on Wikipedia, George W. Bush was at […]

The Conversation

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Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Quds gives the details of an attack this week by Israeli squatter-settlers on native Palestinians of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UN:  Removal of Indigenous Population - 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

UN: Removal of Indigenous Population – 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

( Middle East Monitor) – Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise […]

Ramona Wadi

Afghanistan
Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

( Waging Noviolence ) – This week, Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook talk to Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative […]

Waging Nonviolence

Afghanistan
“A Horrible Mistake”:  Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

“A Horrible Mistake”: Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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