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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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Frankenfuel:  The Market is done with Big Oil and Coal, but will they Lumber on with Gov't Subsidies?

Frankenfuel: The Market is done with Big Oil and Coal, but will they Lumber on with Gov’t Subsidies?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Are the big oil stocks headed for collapse? Citizens as diverse as climate activist and 350.org founder […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
Trump's Rush to Reopen Economy is a Death Sentence for Some Minority Workers

Trump’s Rush to Reopen Economy is a Death Sentence for Some Minority Workers

By Negin Owliaei | – ( Otherwords.org) – Every morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida […]

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Coronavirus and the End of American Exceptionalism

Coronavirus and the End of American Exceptionalism

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Remember the song “Over There”? “Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
Male Face Masks have been the Height of Masculinity for Centuries: Why see Coronavirus Masks as Wimpy?

Male Face Masks have been the Height of Masculinity for Centuries: Why see Coronavirus Masks as Wimpy?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A recent study of the way Americans are adapting to the coronavirus found that “Men more than women agree that […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
72 Years of Birthdays for Israel,  72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians

72 Years of Birthdays for Israel, 72 Years of Catastrophe for Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor ) – Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population […]

Asa Winstanley

Climate Crisis
Coronavirus Effect:  In One Year, Share of Coal in German Public Power Supply Cratered to 16% from 30%

Coronavirus Effect: In One Year, Share of Coal in German Public Power Supply Cratered to 16% from 30%

By Freja Eriksen | — ( Clean Energy Wire) – Coal’s share in Germany’s net public power production fell to around 16 percent in April […]

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Epidemics
As 27 Million Lose Job-based Health Insurance, Imagine if there were No Obamacare

As 27 Million Lose Job-based Health Insurance, Imagine if there were No Obamacare

By Simon F. Haeder | – The loss of 31 million jobs due to coronvirus has an added downside: 27 million have lost job-based health […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
I guess "Islam" doesn't Hate us After All: Trump pins hopes for Vaccine on Muslim-American Slaoui

I guess “Islam” doesn’t Hate us After All: Trump pins hopes for Vaccine on Muslim-American Slaoui

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump became president in part by playing on fears, resentments and outright hatred among some segments of the American public, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine

How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine

( Middle East Monitor) – Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little […]

Ramzy Baroud

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