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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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Authoritarianism
Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Trump organization was indicted by a New York grand jury on Wednesday and the indictment is unsealed today, according to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The World's Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn't Changed

The World’s Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn’t Changed

( Middle East Monitor ) – If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the […]

Asa Winstanley

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

(Al-Shabaka ) – The ongoing Palestinian uprising against the Israeli settler-colonial regime in colonized Palestine did not begin in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood of […]

Yara Hawari

racism
Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it

Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it

By Vini Lander | – From the moment it was published, the UK’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities’ report was met with a media […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Silwan, beginning Ethnic Cleansing Drive

Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Silwan, beginning Ethnic Cleansing Drive

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Tuesday evening, Israeli security forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters in Silwan […]

Juan Cole

censorship
America wants to be known in Mideast as Champion of Free Speech, so Why is it Censoring Iranian Websites?

America wants to be known in Mideast as Champion of Free Speech, so Why is it Censoring Iranian Websites?

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – The Bureau of Industry and Security, an agency of the United States Department of Justice, in a statement on […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Climate Crisis
Nuclear energy isn’t a safe bet in a warming world – here’s why

Nuclear energy isn’t a safe bet in a warming world – here’s why

By Paul Dorfman | – ( The Conversation) – The overwhelming majority of nuclear power stations active today entered service long before the science of […]

The Conversation

Anti-War Movement
What Price “Defense”? America’s Nearly $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn’t Making Us Any Safer

What Price “Defense”? America’s Nearly $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn’t Making Us Any Safer

By Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any […]

Tomdispatch

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Iraqi Shiite Militias hit back at US Bases in Syria after Biden Air Raids; Why does US have Bases in Syria? Why Hasn't it Left Iraq?

Iraqi Shiite Militias hit back at US Bases in Syria after Biden Air Raids; Why does US have Bases in Syria? Why Hasn’t it Left Iraq?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds reports that Shiite militias in Syria fired several rockets or artillery shells at the US military base in the […]

Juan Cole

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