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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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Climate Crisis
Climate Social Distancing: As sea levels rise, are we ready to live behind giant walls?

Climate Social Distancing: As sea levels rise, are we ready to live behind giant walls?

By Hannah Cloke | – Climate change, it’s fair to say, is complicated. And it’s big. One of the main challenges of responding effectively is […]

The Conversation

Books
Washington Irving, “Legend of the Arabian Astrologer”

Washington Irving, “Legend of the Arabian Astrologer”

Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra (New York: Lea and Carey, 1832). Legend of the Arabian Astrologer. IN OLD times, many hundred years ago, there […]

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Afghanistan
If only we Had that $6.4 Trillion we wasted on Iraq and Afghanistan to Lift the Economy and Fight Coronavirus

If only we Had that $6.4 Trillion we wasted on Iraq and Afghanistan to Lift the Economy and Fight Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wouldn’t it be nice if the richest country in the world had some resources stored up to deal with the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Mother's Day for Palestinian Women in Gaza Means Children Maimed, Jailed, Killed or Living under Israeli Blockade

Mother’s Day for Palestinian Women in Gaza Means Children Maimed, Jailed, Killed or Living under Israeli Blockade

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – While families around the world have celebrated Mother’s Day, Palestinian mothers in the Gaza […]

Middle East Monitor

Education
Neoliberalism starved our Classrooms of Resources for 50 Years, and then Covid-19 Budget Cuts Hit

Neoliberalism starved our Classrooms of Resources for 50 Years, and then Covid-19 Budget Cuts Hit

By Belle Chesler | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Do you hear that silence? That’s the absence of footsteps echoing through our nation’s public school hallways. […]

Tomdispatch

Epidemics
Fleas to flu to coronavirus: how ‘death ships’ spread disease through the ages

Fleas to flu to coronavirus: how ‘death ships’ spread disease through the ages

By Joy Damousi | – One of the haunting images of this pandemic will be stationary cruise ships – deadly carriers of COVID-19 – at […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Your Crazy Uncle Sam strikes again, Vetoing Global Peace to own the ChiComs

Your Crazy Uncle Sam strikes again, Vetoing Global Peace to own the ChiComs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Under Trump, America has officially become the world’s crazy uncle Sam. On Friday, the US used its veto power to […]

Juan Cole

Books
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:  Why some Sufis drink Wine

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Why some Sufis drink Wine

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain of the Day A search for good times isn’t why we drink: Wine’s not for going rogue or faithlessness. We […]

Juan Cole

China
Trump keeps trying to Blame China for his Bungling on Coronavirus: Enough with the Conspiracy Theories

Trump keeps trying to Blame China for his Bungling on Coronavirus: Enough with the Conspiracy Theories

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to […]

John Feffer

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