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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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Islamophobia
Islamophobia and Amnesia:  Why are Major White Supremacist attacks on Mosques quickly Forgotten?

Islamophobia and Amnesia: Why are Major White Supremacist attacks on Mosques quickly Forgotten?

By Jasmin Zine | – On Jan. 29, 2017, six Muslim men were shot dead in a Québec City mosque. An armed white nationalist terrorist […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
The Republican Party's Iran-Level Superstitious Anti-Semitism: Greene claimed Jewish Space Laser started Cali Wildfires

The Republican Party’s Iran-Level Superstitious Anti-Semitism: Greene claimed Jewish Space Laser started Cali Wildfires

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Golnaz Esfandiari reports on controversies currently roiling Tehran over the belief in supernatural beings, genies (jinn or djinn), among the […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Republican Leaders are de Facto Justifying Fascist Violence: Don't let them off the Hook

Republican Leaders are de Facto Justifying Fascist Violence: Don’t let them off the Hook

Fascism is not just about violence. It’s also about politics.

Foreign Policy in Focus

Drones
Will the Biden Administration End America’s Global War on Children?

Will the Biden Administration End America’s Global War on Children?

Most people regard Trump’s treatment of immigrant children as among his most shocking crimes as president. Images of hundreds of children stolen from their families […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

National Security State
Demilitarizing Our Democracy:  How the National Security State Has Come to Dominate a “Civilian” Government

Demilitarizing Our Democracy: How the National Security State Has Come to Dominate a “Civilian” Government

By Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – This month’s insurrection at the Capitol revealed the dismal failure of the Capitol […]

Tomdispatch

Congress
Educator Shocked that GOP put Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spoke of Assassinating Nancy Pelosi and denied Parkland School Shootings, on House Education Committee

Educator Shocked that GOP put Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spoke of Assassinating Nancy Pelosi and denied Parkland School Shootings, on House Education Committee

This is who the Republican Party is, now

Juan Cole

Joe Biden
Can President Biden end the Catastrophic Yemen War?  Only if he Acts without Delay

Can President Biden end the Catastrophic Yemen War? Only if he Acts without Delay

By Tasnim Nazeer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – US President Joe Biden could end the war in Yemen if he acts without delay. […]

Middle East Monitor

India
The problem with India's 'love jihad' laws

The problem with India’s ‘love jihad’ laws

By Sumit Ganguly | – Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the Bharatiya Janata Party government has put forward several anti-Muslim policies. The latest is […]

The Conversation

Nonviolence
‘I Ain’t Marching Anymore’ chronicles 260 years of war resistance and conscientious objection

‘I Ain’t Marching Anymore’ chronicles 260 years of war resistance and conscientious objection

From the American Revolution through the Global War on Terror, author Chris Lombardi tells the inspiring stories of people who refused to kill. By Frida […]

Frida Berrigan

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