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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
China Cautiously Eyes New Regional Leadership Role As Afghanistan Fighting Intensifies

China Cautiously Eyes New Regional Leadership Role As Afghanistan Fighting Intensifies

By Reid Standish | – ( RFE/RL ) – As the security situation in Afghanistan worsens, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has begun a high-profile […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work

California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work

By Matthew Lackner | – ( The Conversation ) – Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
South Africa 'Ungovernable' after a former President was Jailed; Do Trump and Trumpism pose a similar danger to U.S.?

South Africa ‘Ungovernable’ after a former President was Jailed; Do Trump and Trumpism pose a similar danger to U.S.?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – After former South African President Jacob Zuma went to jail over corruption and contempt of court charges last week, his […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Family Separation Law: Israel’s demographic war on the Palestinians intensifies

Family Separation Law: Israel’s demographic war on the Palestinians intensifies

( Middle East Monitor ) – When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iran
America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq - and Iran?

America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?

( Code Pink) – At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the […]

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

China
On the Brink in 2026:  U.S.-China Near-War Status Report

On the Brink in 2026: U.S.-China Near-War Status Report

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s the summer of 2026, five years after the Biden administration identified the People’s Republic of China as the principal threat […]

Michael T. Klare

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Palestinians appeal to the UN Security Council over further Israeli Land Theft, Squatter Settlement at Palestinian Beita

Palestinians appeal to the UN Security Council over further Israeli Land Theft, Squatter Settlement at Palestinian Beita

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has agreed with Israeli squatter organizations […]

Juan Cole

Debt
Why we need a Debt Jubilee for Renters as the Covid eviction Moratorium expires

Why we need a Debt Jubilee for Renters as the Covid eviction Moratorium expires

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is going to happen when the eviction protections now scheduled to expire at the end of […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: two decades of Nato help leaves a failed and fractured state on the brink of civil war

Afghanistan: two decades of Nato help leaves a failed and fractured state on the brink of civil war

By Natasha Lindstaedt | – ( The Conversation )- Afghanistan is falling apart. With US and Nato troops leaving the country earlier than planned, experts […]

The Conversation

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