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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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How the Boogaloo Bois Extremist Hate Group tried to Overturn our Election and Spark a Civil War

How the Boogaloo Bois Extremist Hate Group tried to Overturn our Election and Spark a Civil War

By Gisela Pérez de Acha, Kathryn Hurd and Ellie Lightfoot | Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program | – The Insurrection: The Effort to Overturn the […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
How climate insecurity could trigger more conflict in Somalia and the Horn of Africa

How climate insecurity could trigger more conflict in Somalia and the Horn of Africa

By Andrew E. Yaw Tchie | – Climate change effects such as droughts, flash floods, erratic rainfall, disruption to the monsoon seasons, strong winds, cyclones, […]

The Conversation

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Syrian Missile strikes Near Israel's Nuclear Facility at Dimona, Which could have Turned into a Dirty Bomb

Syrian Missile strikes Near Israel’s Nuclear Facility at Dimona, Which could have Turned into a Dirty Bomb

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli site i24 reports that on early Thursday morning, a Syrian missile slammed into the desert very near to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?

New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?

By Morgan Bazilian and David Victor | – President Joe Biden announced an ambitious new national climate target at a livestreamed summit of world leaders […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, we need to stress Boycotts and the 'Noncooperation' in 'Nonviolent Noncooperation'

Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, we need to stress Boycotts and the ‘Noncooperation’ in ‘Nonviolent Noncooperation’

By Maria J. Stephan | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In his March 1956 sermon “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Why We Forget Epidemics and Why This One Must Be Remembered

Why We Forget Epidemics and Why This One Must Be Remembered

By Nina Burleigh | – The second Moderna shot made me sick — as predicted. A 24-hour touch of what an alarmed immune system feels […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
A big Effing Deal:  On Eve of Climate Summit, news that Biden will cut US C02 Emissions 50% by 2030

A big Effing Deal: On Eve of Climate Summit, news that Biden will cut US C02 Emissions 50% by 2030

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – ( Matthew Daly at the Associated Press reports that President Biden will announce at Thursday’s virtual international Climate Summit that […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Green Future?  Earth Minerals and Renewables

Afghanistan’s Green Future? Earth Minerals and Renewables

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Can Afghanistan’s mineral wealth finance a transition to a carbon-neutral future? By John Feffer | April 21, 2021 […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

( Sustainability Times) – Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and […]

Sustainability Times

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