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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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Antisemitism
Tucker Carlson touts 'Replacement' Conspiracy Theory; but his own Ancestor could have been Lynched

Tucker Carlson touts ‘Replacement’ Conspiracy Theory; but his own Ancestor could have been Lynched

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Grand Dragon Tucker Carlson went on another Fox News show to push his streaming program, and while there was struck […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Antarctica's ice shelves are trembling as Earth heats, threatening Sea Level Rise unless we Act Now

Antarctica’s ice shelves are trembling as Earth heats, threatening Sea Level Rise unless we Act Now

By Ella Gilbert | – Images of colossal chunks of ice plunging into the sea accompany almost every news story about climate change. It can […]

The Conversation

Germany
Germany's State Rails, already 61%-renewables Fueled,  to add 190 GWh of North Sea Wind toward being 80% Green by 2030

Germany’s State Rails, already 61%-renewables Fueled, to add 190 GWh of North Sea Wind toward being 80% Green by 2030

By Charlotte Nijhuis | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with […]

Clean Energy Wire

Voter suppression
Voter Suppression Is an Attack on Democracy — And My Faith

Voter Suppression Is an Attack on Democracy — And My Faith

By Robert P. Alvarez | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I believe in God and in the right to vote. Georgia’s recent election bill doesn’t […]

OtherWords

Acidification of Oceans
More CO2 in our Atmosphere now than any time since 3.6 mn Years Ago, when Oceans were 90 feet higher (that's our fate)

More CO2 in our Atmosphere now than any time since 3.6 mn Years Ago, when Oceans were 90 feet higher (that’s our fate)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a scientific shocker, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found that despite the slowdown in carbon dioxide emissions […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Foreign policy under Sisi:   diminishing independence in the service of dictatorship

Egyptian Foreign policy under Sisi: diminishing independence in the service of dictatorship

Johannesburg (Special to Informed Comment) – Egyptian foreign policy under the tutelage of Egyptian president Abdul Fattah El-Sisi has seen the country lose much of […]

Ebrahim Deen

Christianity
Trump Held Steady among Religious Believers at the Ballot - the Nonreligious Defeated Him

Trump Held Steady among Religious Believers at the Ballot – the Nonreligious Defeated Him

By Ryan Burge | – For all the predictions and talk of a slump in support among evangelicals, it appears Donald Trump’s election loss was […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
The Pentagon prefers a Conventional War it Can Win, but is likely stuck with Guerrilla Wars it Can’t

The Pentagon prefers a Conventional War it Can Win, but is likely stuck with Guerrilla Wars it Can’t

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The future isn’t what it used to be. As a teenager in the 1970s, I watched a lot of TV science […]

William J. Astore

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Iraq Announces end of US Combat Mission in Iraq, further reduction in 2,500 Troops now There

Iraq Announces end of US Combat Mission in Iraq, further reduction in 2,500 Troops now There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iraqi News Agency reports that Qasim al-Araji, Iraq’s National Security Adviser, said on Wednesday that his country had reached […]

Juan Cole

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