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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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Afghanistan
Trump, who supports War Crimes, is losing War, and Wants to quit Afghanistan, Gaslights Troops in Kabul

Trump, who supports War Crimes, is losing War, and Wants to quit Afghanistan, Gaslights Troops in Kabul

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump showed up in Afghanistan, or rather on the US Bagram base in Afghanistan, on Thanksgiving, where he gave one […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump and Israel's Netanyahu:  How the Far Right Subverts Democracy Globally

Trump and Israel’s Netanyahu: How the Far Right Subverts Democracy Globally

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment) – The trajectories and political fortunes of Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and President Donald Trump are so closely […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

By Mark Maslin | – The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey's Fundamentalist Proxies

Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey’s Fundamentalist Proxies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch reports that the fundamentalist Arab fighters Turkey brought with it to the Kurdish regions of northeast Iraq […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Winter is Coming: Is Trump Impeaching us rather than the Other Way Around?

Winter is Coming: Is Trump Impeaching us rather than the Other Way Around?

(Tomdispatch.com) – French king Louis XV reputedly said, “Après moi, le déluge.” (“After me, the flood.”) Whether that line was really his remains unclear, but […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – (Middle East Monitor) – Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration made a notable move. Secretary of State […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
On Thanksgiving, Let’s Be Thankful we Can Still Address our Climate Emergency: And then Do It

On Thanksgiving, Let’s Be Thankful we Can Still Address our Climate Emergency: And then Do It

Revised for 2019 By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump:  Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump: Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

( The Middle East Monitor ) – It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iraq
Kurdish Yazidi Survivors of ISIL Massacre, Female Enslavement, Demand Justice

Kurdish Yazidi Survivors of ISIL Massacre, Female Enslavement, Demand Justice

By Tutku Ayhan and Güneş Murat Tezcür | – It’s been five years since the Islamic State killed 3,100 Yazidi people in Iraq – mostly […]

The Conversation

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