4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (402+ words) International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have been a slow burn affair. Condemnation and admonitions have issued from various international bodies and civil society groups regarding the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1044+ words) Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband “called out” the growing numbers of Israeli settlements in the West Bank imposing sanctions on some aspects of the system although contradictions remain within the overall stance towards apartheid state In an unprecedented address before the…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (926+ words) Vice President JD Vance is doing a poor job of paving over the war crimes of the Trump administration. On September 1, he declared Iran is lying about the US bombing of a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (889+ words) Donald Trump does not want to kill millions of Iranian civilians. But Trump has a gun to his head and time is running out. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting dangerously low, long-term interest rates are edging up, and a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (589+ words) As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1011+ words) The confrontation between the United States and Iran is entering a dangerous new phase, with reciprocal strikes, attacks involving missiles and drones, civilian casualties in southern Iran, and growing tensions around the Strait of Hormuz raising concerns that the conflict…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (285+ words) Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (528+ words) Israeli arms exports per capita in 2025 were roughly six times greater than the United States and 19 times greater than Russia, a new study has found, revealing the extraordinary scale of Israel’s weapons industry relative to its population. The latest study…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (403+ words) The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of goodwill and, it would seem, a disruption in resupplying warships operating in the Middle East, have become dents in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (797+ words) Logistical issues with the US Navy fleet overseas appear to extend far beyond the Persian Gulf. According to recent media reports, a US ship in the South China Sea is facing problems similar to those of aircraft carriers deployed for…...