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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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Epidemics
Business as Usual won’t Survive the Pandemic: The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism

Business as Usual won’t Survive the Pandemic: The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism

By Walden Bello | – The morning will come When the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret (Foreign Policy in Focus) – […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Corruption
Congress' Relief Package was for Small Business, but pro-Trump Millionaires Grabbed up the Lion's Share

Congress’ Relief Package was for Small Business, but pro-Trump Millionaires Grabbed up the Lion’s Share

( Otherwords.org ) – Thanks to a specially carved loophole, one multi-millionaire claimed 339 times more than the average small business received. By Jim Hightower […]

Jim Hightower

Central Intelligence Agency
Coronavirus and Intelligence: Trump is Getting up Conflict with China the way Bush did with Iraq

Coronavirus and Intelligence: Trump is Getting up Conflict with China the way Bush did with Iraq

By Bob Dreyfuss | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who […]

Bob Dreyfuss

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The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu's Sudetenland Moment

The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu’s Sudetenland Moment

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced after a cabinet meeting that his government will move to implement the end of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu brands the Int'l Criminal Court investigation of Israeli War Crimes a "Strategic Threat"

Netanyahu brands the Int’l Criminal Court investigation of Israeli War Crimes a “Strategic Threat”

( Middle East Monitor) – Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined that Palestine is a state for the purpose of its investigations into war […]

Ramona Wadi

Epidemics
Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

By Madlen Davies , Rosa Furneaux, and Ben Stockton | – ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) – As more coronavirus patients were admitted to […]

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Climate Crisis
Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

By Tom Matthews and Colin Raymond | – The explosive growth and success of human society over the past 10,000 years has been underpinned by […]

The Conversation

Books
Fundamentalist Pandemics:  What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Fundamentalist Pandemics: What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

This essay by Juan Cole was originally published in Tomdispatch.com. See the original for a perceptive introductory essay by Tom Engelhardt. This spring, the novel […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

( Middle East Monitor ) – On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration […]

Ramzy Baroud

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