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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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Human Rights
Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been released. But will a prisoner swap with Australia encourage more hostage-taking by Iran?

Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been released. But will a prisoner swap with Australia encourage more hostage-taking by Iran?

By Ian Parmeter | – Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s release from an Iranian prison after more than two years’ detention is certainly a welcome development. […]

The Conversation

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No Thanksgiving for the Palestinian Children of Gaza: UN says Israelis deprived them of $16.7 Bn., potable Water

No Thanksgiving for the Palestinian Children of Gaza: UN says Israelis deprived them of $16.7 Bn., potable Water

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued a report Wednesday on the effects of the continued illegal […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership

How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership

By Dolf Gielen and Morgan Bazilian | – John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a […]

The Conversation

Corruption
What Trump’s claim of a ‘stolen election’ means for activists today

What Trump’s claim of a ‘stolen election’ means for activists today

By George Lakey | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – I’m encountering a great deal of alarm among progressive activists regarding continued Republican claims of […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Pompeo's branding of Boycotters of Israel 'anti-Semitic' is intended to Justify Expropriation, Statelessness of Palestinians

Pompeo’s branding of Boycotters of Israel ‘anti-Semitic’ is intended to Justify Expropriation, Statelessness of Palestinians

By Essam Yousef | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As he counts down his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is […]

Middle East Monitor

Australia
Australia's Massive Solar Energy Hub in Outback to produce coal-killer Green Ammonia

Australia’s Massive Solar Energy Hub in Outback to produce coal-killer Green Ammonia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Asian Renewable Energy Hub is planning a $16 billion solar and wind project in the part of the Australian […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Drinking the Kool-Aid:  The Rise and Collapse of Trump's Coronavirus Death Cult

Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Rise and Collapse of Trump’s Coronavirus Death Cult

Dartmouth, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – In 1978 cult leader Jim Jones convinced 909 of his brainwashed followers in Jonestown, Guyana to drink cyanide-laced […]

Brian Glyn Williams

Afghanistan
Time to bring the Troops home from Afghanistan, no Matter who Does it

Time to bring the Troops home from Afghanistan, no Matter who Does it

Let’s open up and sing, and ring the bells out Ding-dong! the merry-oh sing it high, sing it low Let them know the wicked witch […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Is America Flowing Demographically to the Left?  Why Trump's White Evangelicals aren't the Force they were under Reagan or Bush

Is America Flowing Demographically to the Left? Why Trump’s White Evangelicals aren’t the Force they were under Reagan or Bush

Charleston, W.V. (Special to Informed Comment) – Maybe 2020 is a turning point – one that won’t be clearly visible until the future. Maybe it […]

James A. Haught

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