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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
Taliban seize Herat and assault nearby dam that provides water and power to hundreds of thousands of Afghans

Taliban seize Herat and assault nearby dam that provides water and power to hundreds of thousands of Afghans

By Elizabeth B. Hessami and Asef Ghafoory | – ( The Conversation) – The Taliban have taken over the Afghan city of Herat, capping three […]

The Conversation

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Dear CIA Director Burns: Don't Listen to the Israelis on Iran-- They just want you to fight a war for them

Dear CIA Director Burns: Don’t Listen to the Israelis on Iran– They just want you to fight a war for them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jonathan Lis at Haaretz reports that the Israeli government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is lobbying the US to get […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s siege of Occupied Palestinian civilians is halving Gaza patients’ survival rates

Israel’s siege of Occupied Palestinian civilians is halving Gaza patients’ survival rates

By Maya Abuali | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Lacking in 60 per cent of appropriate medicine and treatment protocols as a result of […]

Middle East Monitor

Flooding
IPCC:  Ocean has risen more than in any century in at least 3,000 years, and in worst case could rise 7 feet in next 80 Years

IPCC: Ocean has risen more than in any century in at least 3,000 years, and in worst case could rise 7 feet in next 80 Years

By Robert Kopp | – ( The Conversation) – Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and […]

The Conversation

National Security State
Generations of Struggle:  Lessons on Defending Democracy

Generations of Struggle: Lessons on Defending Democracy

By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – My father, Athan G. Theoharis, passed away on July 3rd. A leading expert on the FBI, […]

Liz Theoharis

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Environmental Impacts of Bipartisan Infastructure Bill, from Electric Vehicles to Electric Grid

Top 5 Environmental Impacts of Bipartisan Infastructure Bill, from Electric Vehicles to Electric Grid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although the the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the senate on Tuesday has been criticized by environmentalists for […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban Gains pose risk to fragile Legal Protections gained by Afghan Women: HRW

Taliban Gains pose risk to fragile Legal Protections gained by Afghan Women: HRW

( Human Rights Watch) – (New York) – The Afghan government’s failure to provide accountability for violence against women and girls has undermined progress to […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
77% of the residents of the Israeli-Occupied Old City in Jerusalem are Muslims, But for How Long as Israelis demolish Silwan Homes?

77% of the residents of the Israeli-Occupied Old City in Jerusalem are Muslims, But for How Long as Israelis demolish Silwan Homes?

( Middle East Monitor) – An Israeli writer has said that “the statistical reality in the city of Jerusalem shows that 77% of the Old […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
IPCC Alarm Bell: burning gas, coal is Intensifying Water Cycle: Expect more and worse Storms, Floods such as hit Germany, China this Summer

IPCC Alarm Bell: burning gas, coal is Intensifying Water Cycle: Expect more and worse Storms, Floods such as hit Germany, China this Summer

By Mathew Barlow | – ( The Conversation) – The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes […]

The Conversation

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