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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
We’re not Serious about the Climate Emergency: There’s Still no ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress

We’re not Serious about the Climate Emergency: There’s Still no ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress

By Arn Menconi | – (Special to Consortium News) – Today there’s no climate bill to vote on, there’s no bill in the pipeline and […]

Arn Menconi

Donald Trump
Iran and the US Come Closer:  Ayatollah Rick Perry's Evangelical Theology of Trump as God's Chosen is just like Khamenei

Iran and the US Come Closer: Ayatollah Rick Perry’s Evangelical Theology of Trump as God’s Chosen is just like Khamenei

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jay Willis at GQ reports that Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said on Fox and Friends that Trump is God’s […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
How American anti-Semitism reflects the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of religious liberty

How American anti-Semitism reflects the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of religious liberty

By Tisa Wenger | – Americans recently observed the first anniversary of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in which 11 […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Stateless, Occupied Palestinians can't vote in Next Israeli Election, but Have the Greatest Stakes

Stateless, Occupied Palestinians can’t vote in Next Israeli Election, but Have the Greatest Stakes

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – With the declaration of the leaders of Israel’s two major parties, Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu and […]

Middle East Monitor

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Expelling Human Rights Watch: Israel Joins Burundi, Uzbekistan and other Authoritarian States

Expelling Human Rights Watch: Israel Joins Burundi, Uzbekistan and other Authoritarian States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel on Sunday expelled the in-country director of Human Rights Watch from the country. Israel thereby joins dictatorships such as […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
These Young Muslims want to meet Islamophobes and Change their Minds. And it’s Working

These Young Muslims want to meet Islamophobes and Change their Minds. And it’s Working

By Ihsan Yilmaz, Ana-Maria Bliuc, and Fethi Mansouri | – The political influence of the far-right, along with a more salient national security agenda, has […]

The Conversation

War
Military Spouses and the True Costs of our Forever Wars

Military Spouses and the True Costs of our Forever Wars

By Andrea Mazzarino | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There is some incongruity between my role as an editor of a book about the costs of America’s […]

Tomdispatch

Iran
Iran's Gasoline Rebellion as a Crisis of Representation

Iran’s Gasoline Rebellion as a Crisis of Representation

By Rahman Bouzari | – (OpenDemocracy) – The recent round of spontaneous protests against the petrol [gasoline] price hike has to be contextualized as part […]

Open Democracy

Donald Trump
Nunes as Fox Guarding Henhouse: Parnas alleges he was part of Ukraine Scandal

Nunes as Fox Guarding Henhouse: Parnas alleges he was part of Ukraine Scandal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sean Collins at Vox reports that two lawyers for Lev Parnas say that Parnas tells them he arranged meetings for […]

Juan Cole

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