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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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Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren't going Quietly

Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren’t going Quietly

By Devran Gule and Leïla Choukroune | – In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – This March, the leading global consulting firm IHS Markit held its CERAWeek conference, billed as the ​“world’s premier energy […]

Basav Sen

Afghanistan
Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

( Tomidispatch.com ) – In the first two months of Joe Biden’s presidency, you could feel the country holding its breath. Sheltered in place, hidden […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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It doesn't have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258

It doesn’t have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258

Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, in Atlanta and Boulder. The main similarities of the two are that the young alleged murderers easily […]

Juan Cole

Asian-Americans
On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women

On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women

An Thuy Nguyen | – Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The deadly mass shooting on March 16 targeting Asian American women working at […]

An Thuy Nguyen

Inequality
On Tax Day, the Billionaires must Start Paying their Fair Share

On Tax Day, the Billionaires must Start Paying their Fair Share

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions. Elephants occupy […]

H. Patricia Hynes

History
A New History of the Prophet of Islamﷺ –  Juan Cole interviewed by Hamza Yusuf

A New History of the Prophet of Islamﷺ – Juan Cole interviewed by Hamza Yusuf

Juan Cole interviewed by Hamza Yusuf at Renovatio about the book: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires Available at Nicola’s Books in […]

Juan Cole

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White Nationalist TV News: Even Networks and CNN are falling for 'Border Crisis' Propaganda

White Nationalist TV News: Even Networks and CNN are falling for ‘Border Crisis’ Propaganda

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The media frenzy in the US around the alleged border crisis with Mexico could have several roots. It could be […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Law of the Occupier: Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians of East Jerusalem

Law of the Occupier: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians of East Jerusalem

( Middle East Monitor) – A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on 19 March during a weekly protest against […]

Ramzy Baroud

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