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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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Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?

Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok announced Monday that the US had agreed to remove his country from the list of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis have Destroyed 1 mn Palestinian Olive Trees; this Month, they're at it Again

Israelis have Destroyed 1 mn Palestinian Olive Trees; this Month, they’re at it Again

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – In the village of Jaba in Bethlehem district this month, Israeli squatter settlers chopped down and destroyed 300 olive […]

Mohammed Samaana

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In the Midst of an Epochal American Eviction Crisis, Can we Wait for Congressional Talks?

In the Midst of an Epochal American Eviction Crisis, Can we Wait for Congressional Talks?

How should progressives stand on the issue of the second Covid relief bill being negotiated between Speaker Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin? What can be […]

John Buell

Evangelicals
Is the Rising Generation of Unchurched Secularists pointing to a post-Trump Progressive America?

Is the Rising Generation of Unchurched Secularists pointing to a post-Trump Progressive America?

Someday, the coronavirus tragedy will be gone, wiped out by scientific vaccines. And Donald Trump will be just an unpleasant memory, an absurd reminder of […]

James A. Haught

China
China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump's disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?

China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump’s disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even if Trump loses, he can go on screwing up the country for two and a half months thereafter, and […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
With UN Embargo on Arms Sales to Iran Lapsing, Will Russia take on US to reap Bonanza?

With UN Embargo on Arms Sales to Iran Lapsing, Will Russia take on US to reap Bonanza?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – As of today, the 2007 UN Security Council embargo on conventional arms shipments to Iran expired. At least from […]

Nikola Mikovic

Donald Trump
Trump's Body Count in Historical Perspective: Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths on his Hands

Trump’s Body Count in Historical Perspective: Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths on his Hands

Alexandria, Va. (Special to Informed Comment) – Many presidential biographies are somewhere between pseudo profound and pure fluff, arguing presidents be judged by Hollywood-like silliness […]

Al Carroll

Donald Trump
Can America escape the cave of Trump’s Quirky Isolationism?

Can America escape the cave of Trump’s Quirky Isolationism?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The so-called Age of Trump is also an age of instantly forgotten bestselling books, especially ones purporting to provide the inside […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Dear Sen. Perdue:  Kamala is the name of Great Americans

Dear Sen. Perdue: Kamala is the name of Great Americans

Senator David Perdue, at a rally in Macon, Ga., for Donald Trump, made fun of Kamala Harris’s name. He pretended not to know which syllable […]

Juan Cole

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