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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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Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America?   Not Those of Poor Americans, That’s For Sure

Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America? Not Those of Poor Americans, That’s For Sure

By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In June 1990, future South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress only […]

Liz Theoharis

Epidemics
Israel stops Palestinians of Gaza from getting 2K doses of Russian Coronavirus Vaccine

Israel stops Palestinians of Gaza from getting 2K doses of Russian Coronavirus Vaccine

Update. On Wednesday Feb. 17, Israel finally permitted 1,000 doses into Gaza, despite an earlier temptation to play politics with the pandemic. Ann Arbor (Informed […]

Juan Cole

Development
Yes we need the $1.9 Trillion Stimulus: Real Unemployment is 3 times what they're telling us

Yes we need the $1.9 Trillion Stimulus: Real Unemployment is 3 times what they’re telling us

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – As Congress gets set to debate the Biden Pandemic relief package, one of the favorite Republican lines […]

John Buell

Iran
Is Biden risking new conflict with Iran by yielding to Dem Hawks and Neoconservatives?

Is Biden risking new conflict with Iran by yielding to Dem Hawks and Neoconservatives?

( Code Pink) – As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America’s […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Far Right
“I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection

“I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection ( ProPublica) – The Effort to Overturn the Election The riot squad defending the embattled […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
Michael E. Mann on The New Climate War and Biden’s Greening of America: Interview with Juan Cole

Michael E. Mann on The New Climate War and Biden’s Greening of America: Interview with Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am so pleased to present to our readers an interview with one of the world’s foremost climate scientists, Michael […]

Juan Cole

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Trump is What Republicans Have Always Wanted

Trump is What Republicans Have Always Wanted

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican Party despite being disgracefully impeached twice, and that is […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Culture
How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times: A Journey into the Heart of a Language We Need Now More Than Ever

How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times: A Journey into the Heart of a Language We Need Now More Than Ever

“Una nación bajo Diós, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos.” ( Tomdispatch.com) – When Jennifer López shouted out that last line of the Pledge […]

Ariel Dorfman

Donald Trump
Trump evades conviction again as Republicans opt for self-preservation

Trump evades conviction again as Republicans opt for self-preservation

By Jennifer S. Hunt | – Twice-impeached former US President Donald Trump has evaded conviction once more. On the fourth day of the impeachment trial, […]

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