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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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America's Lost Causes:  Misty-eyed Nostalgia for Bounty Hunters, Slave-Holding and Wife-beating

America’s Lost Causes: Misty-eyed Nostalgia for Bounty Hunters, Slave-Holding and Wife-beating

We have a conflagration of “Lost Causes” in America. Some people in the South still revere the Confederate leaders who betrayed the United States during […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Climate Crisis
After Ida, Joe Biden calls Code Red on Climate Emergency, Ridicules 'Free Enterprise' argument for Living under Flood Waters

After Ida, Joe Biden calls Code Red on Climate Emergency, Ridicules ‘Free Enterprise’ argument for Living under Flood Waters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden is a late and incomplete convert to the immediate and extreme dangers of the climate emergency. Originally […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? What does the Taliban’s choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan?

Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? What does the Taliban’s choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan?

By Ali A. Olomi | – The Taliban announced on Sept. 7, 2021, that Mullah Hasan Akhund has been appointed interim prime minister of Afghanistan. […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Post-Afghanistan, Nation (Un)Building Comes Home

Post-Afghanistan, Nation (Un)Building Comes Home

( Tomdispatch.com) – They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” Indeed, that cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it […]

Tom Engelhardt

African-Americans
Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women

Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans have complained about the tendency of commentators to compare political suppression and regressive policies of white Republicans to slavery. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: the warlords who will decide whether civil war is likely

Afghanistan: the warlords who will decide whether civil war is likely

By Scott Lucas | – Unsurprisingly, the Taliban’s rapid takeover of power across Afghanistan has prompted headlines about a renewed “civil war”. This is misleading, […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women At Afghan Universities

Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women At Afghan Universities

By Frud Bezhan | – ( RFE/RL/Radio Azadi) – KABUL — The Taliban has imposed a new dress code and gender segregation for women at […]

Frud Bezhan

Climate Crisis
Nature-based solutions: the ‘no-regret’ routes to carbon neutrality

Nature-based solutions: the ‘no-regret’ routes to carbon neutrality

By Zeng Nan, Jin Tong, and Zhang Xiaoquan | – ( China Dialogue) – The concept of nature-based solutions took root in China in 2019. […]

China Dialogue

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Health Dangers of Climate Emergency that are far more Pressing than Covid Pandemic (-  230 Top Medical Journals)

Top 5 Health Dangers of Climate Emergency that are far more Pressing than Covid Pandemic (- 230 Top Medical Journals)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 230 medical journals carried an editorial on Sunday, “Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, […]

Juan Cole

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