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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 Scum of all Fears: America declines the Trump Administration's Invitation to Die

The Scum of all Fears: America declines the Trump Administration’s Invitation to Die

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump, facing the prospect of possibly the worst electoral environment ever to face an incumbent president, is borrowing […]

David Faris

Arab World
With Oil Cratering and Saudis facing Mountain of Debt, what Future for Arab World with Coronavirus?

With Oil Cratering and Saudis facing Mountain of Debt, what Future for Arab World with Coronavirus?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Oil prices have hit zero. Yes, oil was “sold” this week with producers only asking buyers to pay for […]

Middle East Monitor

Epidemics
The Curse of Casteism in a Plague Year: Rightwing Indian Gov't AWOL as Lockdown devastates Poor, Dalits

The Curse of Casteism in a Plague Year: Rightwing Indian Gov’t AWOL as Lockdown devastates Poor, Dalits

By Sanjana Krishnan and Rahul Jambhulkar | – As we rose to another day of peaceful quarantine in the West, we received a message from […]

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Donald Trump
Amid Trump's Immigration ban, Muslim-Americans step up on Covid-19 to donate Masks, PPE, to Hospitals and to help Unemployed, Homeless

Amid Trump’s Immigration ban, Muslim-Americans step up on Covid-19 to donate Masks, PPE, to Hospitals and to help Unemployed, Homeless

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Muslim-Americans have stepped up to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus in ways that may not be apparent […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Will the Corruption of Trump's America End on a Ventilator or in a Mushroom Cloud

Will the Corruption of Trump’s America End on a Ventilator or in a Mushroom Cloud

Little by little, Americans are understanding just how badly our government has let us down by its belated and disastrous response to the Covid-19 pandemic, […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Epidemics
Inequality and the Coronavirus: Or How to Destroy American Society From the Top Down

Inequality and the Coronavirus: Or How to Destroy American Society From the Top Down

By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – My mom contracted polio when she was 14. She survived and learned to walk again, but my […]

Tomdispatch

Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was not a Failure:  Interview with Noah Feldman

The Arab Spring was not a Failure: Interview with Noah Feldman

Joseph Richard Preville interviews Noah Feldman: Detroit (Special to Informed Comment) – The Arab spring was a momentous era of revolutionary people power in the […]

Joseph Richard Preville

Climate Crisis
US Oil "Technically Worthless," and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms

US Oil “Technically Worthless,” and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – May contracts for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil went as low as -$37.63 on Monday. So report Jillian Ambrose […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
In Palestine, Covid-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

In Palestine, Covid-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

(Al-Shabaka.org) – The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of seven cases in Bethlehem that […]

Yara Hawari

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