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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israel's future is apartheid in a 'solution of the three classes'

Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Reading the reflections of one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the […]

Middle East Monitor

Homelessness
The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless:  Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless: Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

( Tomdispatch.com) – Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; […]

Liz Theoharis

Mass Extinction
Human Activity is Threatening 1/3 of Tree Species with Extinction

Human Activity is Threatening 1/3 of Tree Species with Extinction

By Adrian Newton | One in three of the world’s tree species are at risk of becoming extinct, according to a recent report by the […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
China slams US Sanctions on Taliban, Eyes investments in Afghan Minerals

China slams US Sanctions on Taliban, Eyes investments in Afghan Minerals

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laura Zhou at the South China Morning Post reports that Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on Wednesday […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?

Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Every member of Congress attended the September 14, 2001 memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral for the […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza?

Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza?

Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with […]

Middle East Monitor

Christianity
Critical race theory is an important tool in better understanding how religion operates in America

Critical race theory is an important tool in better understanding how religion operates in America

By Tiffany Puett | – ( The Conversation) – The debate over critical race theory has played out in TV studios, school board meetings and […]

The Conversation

China
“We are on the way to a right-wing coup:"  Milley secured Nuclear Codes, Allayed China fears of Trump Strike

“We are on the way to a right-wing coup:” Milley secured Nuclear Codes, Allayed China fears of Trump Strike

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As a historian, I am fascinated by the practical appeals to history that appear throughout the story of Gen. Mark […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan and Wars of Unintended Consequences

Afghanistan and Wars of Unintended Consequences

( Tomdispatch.com)- Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn’t much […]

Rajan Menon

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