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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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To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court

To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court

By Thom Hartmann | – (Via Yes! Magazine) – There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the […]

Yes! Magazine

Climate Crisis
Why the California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

Why the California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

By Stephen Pyne | – Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall. Free-burning fire […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Syria’s Al-Assad:  Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

Syria’s Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrian strongman (and mass murderer) Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Syrian media in which he expressed his happiness that […]

Juan Cole

Lebanon
How Lebanon's Uprising Defies the Sectarian Narrative: Not Sunni, Shiite, Christian

How Lebanon’s Uprising Defies the Sectarian Narrative: Not Sunni, Shiite, Christian

By Mira Assaf Kafantaris | – Religion has shaped Lebanon since it gained independence from France in 1943. In this multicultural country of Muslims, Christians […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities: HRW

Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities: HRW

Disband All Irregular Paramilitary Forces, Cooperate With Independent Investigations

Human Rights Watch

Congress
Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

By Anthony Torres (1st Published at Waging Nonviolence) – The last few weeks have been a turning point for impeachment. Suddenly, dozens of members of […]

Waging Nonviolence

Arab World
Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If we think about mass politics in the Middle East during the past 8 years as anti-corruption drives, it is […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

By Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel | – Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp […]

Clean Energy Wire

Donald Trump
Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

(Tomdispatch.com) – Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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