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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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The Other America:  The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA

The Other America: The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA

( Tomdispatch.com) – In the two weeks since Election 2020, the country has oscillated between joy and anger, hope and dread in an era of […]

Liz Theoharis

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Trump Bruited Strike on Iran Civilian Nuclear Facilities, which may kill as many as did Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima

Trump Bruited Strike on Iran Civilian Nuclear Facilities, which may kill as many as did Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes at the New York Times get the scoop. […]

Juan Cole

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Republicans Aren’t Just Bad Losers — They’re Traitors to Democracy

Republicans Aren’t Just Bad Losers — They’re Traitors to Democracy

By Mitchell Zimmerman | – Trump’s insidious rhetoric on the election won’t stop Biden from taking office, but it’s not harmless either. ( Otherwords.org) – […]

OtherWords

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After the Erratic Trump, can America Rejoin the World?

After the Erratic Trump, can America Rejoin the World?

By John Feffer | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country […]

John Feffer

Donald Trump
Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

By Robert Speel | – American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Yet it’s already assumed […]

The Conversation

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In Slight to Biden, Israel sends Squatters to cut Palestinian East Jerusalem off from Palestinian Bethelehem, West Bank

In Slight to Biden, Israel sends Squatters to cut Palestinian East Jerusalem off from Palestinian Bethelehem, West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Alarabiya reports that the government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has let bids for 1257 new segregated Israeli-only housing […]

Juan Cole

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Say no to Austerity for Workers: McConnell and the GOP are about to pull the "We have no money" scam

Say no to Austerity for Workers: McConnell and the GOP are about to pull the “We have no money” scam

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Not surprisingly the national debt is a subject of concern. Liberal and Left economists, most of whom […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
Despite Losses at Polls and in Court, Trump Crowds in D. C. cry "Coup," "Fraud" and "2nd American Revolution"

Despite Losses at Polls and in Court, Trump Crowds in D. C. cry “Coup,” “Fraud” and “2nd American Revolution”

By MacKenzie Belley | – ( Cronkite News/ Arizona PBS) WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of people turned the streets of Washington into a sea […]

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Donald Trump
The Goldilocks Apocalypse: No Return to Normalcy after Trump

The Goldilocks Apocalypse: No Return to Normalcy after Trump

(Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. Imagine, in other words, that the “blue wall” of […]

John Feffer

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