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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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Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch conducted a detailed study of military actions by Israel and the Hamas party-militia in Gaza and concluded […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

By Homa Hoodfar and Mona Tajali | – The Taliban insurgents continue their deadly war to seize control of Afghanistan after the departure of United […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – By essentially rejecting the provisions of the U.S.Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, a very well designed […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

al-Qaeda
Imperial Overstretch:  Is the American Empire going the way of the Soviet Union?

Imperial Overstretch: Is the American Empire going the way of the Soviet Union?

By Tom Engelhardt | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn't

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Ben and Jerry's Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

Ben and Jerry’s Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

By Sari Bashi | Special Advisor, Program Office | – Published in: Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) ( Human Rights Watch ) – […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

By Scott Denning | – ( The Conversation) – Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Tunisia's President just made the kind of Coup Trump and US Republicans plotted (and are plotting) Against President Biden

Tunisia’s President just made the kind of Coup Trump and US Republicans plotted (and are plotting) Against President Biden

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister, prorogued parliament for 30 days, stripped parliamentarians of […]

Juan Cole

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