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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
Mr. Erdogan: Cease Turkish Gov’t Campaign against Boğaziçi University, Students, Faculty and Institutions

Mr. Erdogan: Cease Turkish Gov’t Campaign against Boğaziçi University, Students, Faculty and Institutions

Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Climate Crisis
Time to Roll up our Sleeves and Fix this:  Trump left us with Heightened Climate, Nuclear Danger

Time to Roll up our Sleeves and Fix this: Trump left us with Heightened Climate, Nuclear Danger

( Tomdispatch.com) – If you live in California, you’re likely to be consumed on occasion by thoughts of fire. That’s not surprising, given that, in […]

Rebecca Gordon

Donald Trump
Whites still won't Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands

Whites still won’t Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of Trump’s biggest crimes for which he is unlikely ever to be held responsible was just discouraging mask-wearing in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi’s water insecurity led to war in Yemen

Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi’s water insecurity led to war in Yemen

Stavanger, Norway (Special to Informed Comment) – In the early hours of 14 September 2019, a fleet of drones attacked the Abqaiq-Khurais oil refinery in […]

Adam Robertson Charlton

Inequality
The Gamestop Affair shows that America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation

The Gamestop Affair shows that America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – It would be unfair to suggest that the titans of Wall Street are oblivious to poverty. One […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
I analyzed all of Trump's tweets to find out what he was really saying

I analyzed all of Trump’s tweets to find out what he was really saying

By Michael Humphrey | – The tally was in, it was clear Donald Trump had lost – and he tweeted: “either a new election should […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Global heating from CO2 breaks Himalayan Glacier, floods sweep away Scores, destroy Hydroelectric Plant

Global heating from CO2 breaks Himalayan Glacier, floods sweep away Scores, destroy Hydroelectric Plant

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A huge chunk of the Nanda Devi glacier in the Himalayas broke off Sunday morning, melting and crashing down on […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Biden is Right to end US involvement in Bloody Yemen Conflict, but he Needs to end the War itself

Biden is Right to end US involvement in Bloody Yemen Conflict, but he Needs to end the War itself

Glen Cove, N.Y. (Special to Informed Comment) – President Biden’s about face on Saudi support for the war in Yemen, including setting aside the disastrous […]

Daniel Martin Varisco

Donald Trump
How Evangelical Leaders worshiped the Golden Calf of Trump's Authoritarianism

How Evangelical Leaders worshiped the Golden Calf of Trump’s Authoritarianism

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the last four years, disinformation propagated by Republican political elites including, most outrageously, Donald Trump, has threatened […]

Thomas Buonomo

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