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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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Donald Trump
America, the Fickle Superpower: World Welcomes Biden, but fears more Trumps

America, the Fickle Superpower: World Welcomes Biden, but fears more Trumps

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The nightmare is over. The vanquished beast has crawled back to Mar-a-Lago to lick his wounds. The heroes are hard at […]

John Feffer

Denmark
Denmark to build Artificial Island for Wind Farms to Power the Whole Country

Denmark to build Artificial Island for Wind Farms to Power the Whole Country

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP reports that Denmark’s parliament has just committed to building an artificial island off its shores that will be home […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Governments mustn’t confuse Criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism:  British-Israeli Academics

Governments mustn’t confuse Criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism: British-Israeli Academics

Via Israeli Academics UK Call to reject the IHRA’s ‘working definition of antisemitism’ To: Vice Chancellors, Members of Academic Senates, all other UK Academics and […]

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Climate Crisis
How Defeating the Planet-Killing Keystone XL Oil Pipeline built a Bolder, Savvier Climate Movement

How Defeating the Planet-Killing Keystone XL Oil Pipeline built a Bolder, Savvier Climate Movement

By Nick Engelfried | ( Waging Nonviolence) – When President Biden rescinded a crucial permit for the Keystone XL pipeline last week, it marked the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Can the Super Bowl end the Toxic season of Trumpism in Sports?

Can the Super Bowl end the Toxic season of Trumpism in Sports?

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Overwhelmed by the intertwined plagues of Covid-19 and Trumpism, sports didn’t stand a chance in 2020. […]

Juan Cole

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In Game Changer, Int'l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

In Game Changer, Int’l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, the International Criminal Court found that it had jurisdiction to consider war crimes and crimes against humanity and […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Yes, Speech can Incite Violence: What Decades of Research Show about Trump's Impeachment Trial

Yes, Speech can Incite Violence: What Decades of Research Show about Trump’s Impeachment Trial

By Kurt Braddock | – Senators, acting in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump that begins on Feb. 9, will soon have to […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Trump's Coup and Burma's Coup:  What they have in Common

Trump’s Coup and Burma’s Coup: What they have in Common

The Asian country’s military overthrew its government over baseless claims of voter fraud. Sound familiar? ( 48hills.org) – This week, military officers in Myanmar (formerly […]

Reese Erlich

National Security State
America's Global Empire is now Costing us our own Well-Being

America’s Global Empire is now Costing us our own Well-Being

( Code Pink) – In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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