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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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Afghanistan
Public Opinion largely Supportive of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal, despite Angst over Chaotic Process

Public Opinion largely Supportive of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, despite Angst over Chaotic Process

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The abrupt collapse of the government of President Ashraf Ghani and his supposed 300,000 security forces in the past two […]

Juan Cole

Immigration
From farm to table, immigrants feed America

From farm to table, immigrants feed America

By Lauren Irwin, Natalie Saenz and Priya Bhat/News21 ( Cronkite News ) – As the sun beats down on a family farm in McFarland, California, […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?

Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?

By Arie Perliger | – The speed and efficiency with which Taliban forces were able to complete the occupation of most of Afghanistan, as well […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists: US has Dangerous Homegrown Radicals trying to Overthrow our Government

Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists: US has Dangerous Homegrown Radicals trying to Overthrow our Government

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It’s as if a sudden natural disaster has just struck Afghanistan. The scenes from the capital Kabul reflect the […]

John Feffer

Afghanistan
Taliban “Islam” versus the Islam of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an

Taliban “Islam” versus the Islam of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – British academic Abdul-Azim Ahmed of Cardiff University, an expert on mosques in the UK, complained on Twitter that he was […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Don’t use girls as justification for bombing Afghanistan, again

Don’t use girls as justification for bombing Afghanistan, again

Dear British feminists, Western military intervention is never a good thing

Open Democracy

Afghanistan
Afghanistan only the latest US war to be driven by deceit and delusion

Afghanistan only the latest US war to be driven by deceit and delusion

By Gordon Adams | – In Afghanistan, American hubris – the United States’ capacity for self-delusion and official lying – has struck once again, as […]

The Conversation

Debt
Debt and Disillusionment: Neoliberalism’s Unfair burden on this Generation of College Students

Debt and Disillusionment: Neoliberalism’s Unfair burden on this Generation of College Students

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For the last decade and a half, I’ve been teaching ethics to undergraduates. Now — admittedly, a little late to the […]

Rebecca Gordon

Afghanistan
The Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean Counter-Terrorism and the end of Bloated Nation-Building

The Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean Counter-Terrorism and the end of Bloated Nation-Building

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden came out swinging on Monday in defense of his decision to get out of Afghanistan. The rapidity […]

Juan Cole

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