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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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Israel/ Palestine
Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19

Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19

By Ali Abdel-Wahab | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Gaza has always been unique among the different parts of Palestine. Its current particularity stems from […]

Al-Shabaka

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Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right

Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right

By Jakana Thomas | – The terror inflicted on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 laid bare America’s problem with violent extremism. The FBI and […]

The Conversation

Bush
How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol

How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – “I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Why is False News about Iran All Right?  No, Khamenei didn’t Threaten Trump on Golf Course, and no, his Twitter account wasn’t Banned

Why is False News about Iran All Right? No, Khamenei didn’t Threaten Trump on Golf Course, and no, his Twitter account wasn’t Banned

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – No, Ayatollah Ali Khameni’s twitter account did not carry an image of Donald Trump being droned on a golf course, […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Other Capitol Mob: How the Billionaires funded the Insurrection

The Other Capitol Mob: How the Billionaires funded the Insurrection

Much to the embarrassment of major corporations, their political donations were traced to the mayhem of January 6. ( Otherwords.org ) – You can’t poke […]

Jim Hightower

Israel/ Palestine
Israel and Palestine:  Apartheid or Settler Colonialism

Israel and Palestine: Apartheid or Settler Colonialism

( Middle East Monitor) – When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether […]

Asa Winstanley

Donald Trump
Did America really Duck the Dark Night of Fascism?  The delusion of normalcy that haunts the United States

Did America really Duck the Dark Night of Fascism? The delusion of normalcy that haunts the United States

By Liam Kennedy | – The election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States was received across much of the world […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party
Biden's own Moderates and Hardliners Battle it Out on reviving Iran Nuclear Deal

Biden’s own Moderates and Hardliners Battle it Out on reviving Iran Nuclear Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two and a half days into the Biden administration, it is already clear that the Problem of Iran is going […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Maybe now the U.S. should stop talking down to the World about “Democracy Promotion”

Maybe now the U.S. should stop talking down to the World about “Democracy Promotion”

Because of the events of the last weeks, months and years, should “democracy promotion” be permanently removed from the U.S. foreign policy lexicon? ( Foreign […]

John Feffer

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