The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial…
Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance…
Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding…
In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend…
In mid-May 2026, an article by Mohammad Altaf Afridi, a former USAID program director in Pakistan, published in The Guardian attracted considerable…
Recent years have seen an upsurge in the United States of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab, particularly anti-Palestinian bigotry. The cause is multifaceted. …
On May 23rd, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of people joined several dozen pacifist Buddhist monks from the Japanese based Nipponzan Myohoji religious…
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the onset of the civil war and revolution in Spain. In this essay I suggest…
President Donald Trump has brazenly engaged in what appears to be insider trading. A bombshell story published in Bloomberg on May 14, 2026, revealed that Trump…
The history of Abdullah Öcalan’s search for a solution to the Kurdish question dates back at least 30 years. During this period,…
More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti…
Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding…
Forgotten Water: How Cities Desertify Their Own Territories In modern cities, a silent paradox repeats itself: in countries affected by drought, rainwater…
Imagine you have considerable background as a progressive or revolutionary activist. You are a good communicator about war and peace, fascist trends,…
On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the…
I entered the MARTA station at Peachtree Center in Atlanta at 5:45am on a Saturday. I needed to get to the Atlanta/Hartsfield…
Throughout history, the siege of populations has been widely used as a strategy to force the surrender of the political and military…
Lebanese painter Tamara Haddad focuses on war, ecological devastation, and the physical transformations taking place on earth through her work, which places…
Who would imagine that an international sporting event will be the next battleground in the fight against authoritarian repression? Yet that scenario…
Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to red—after a century of Democratic Party domination—some working-class…
“The Republicans go for the jugular; the Democrats go for the capillaries” – Kevin Phillips With the recent release of the long-withheld,…
As stakeholders navigate the catastrophic war launched by the United States and Israel on 28 February 2026, it is difficult to project…
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to effectively eliminate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Following this decision, the Republican-controlled state…
US President Donald Trum’’s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijing’s…
The recent deportation of Alex Saab from Caracas to the U.S. on May 18, 2026, has generated shock, confusion, anger, and intense…
For decades, the United States presented the press as the “fourth pillar” of democracy—a force meant to monitor power, expose corruption, and…
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), water is far more than a resource. It is memory, territory, survival, identity, and…
“The most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one’s interest. It is a suicide machine.” -Ronald…
We were filling the tank (and emptying the wallet) when a guy in a pickup truck with a Trump sticker started complaining…
When law graduates and students (joined by participants from neighbouring Kosovo and Albania) marched through Skopje in recent days demanding the right…
There continues to be unlettered heartburn about the definition of “appropriate time” with respect to returning statehood to Jammu & Kashmir.As if…
The strategic and spiritual resonance of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply woven into Iran’s identity. It represents a profound geographic constant…
For some time now, we have maintained that there are three fundamental categories for understanding the Peruvian situation, especially following the popular…
The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump…
From Historical Necessity to Questions of Reassessment and Renewal The left in most countries of the Middle East and the Global South…
Many of those who voted for Donald Trump for President were attracted by his supposed dealmaking skills as advertised in the best-selling…
This is a call to action for men. How can so many of us stay silent in the face of an ongoing…
The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in material insecurity, while aggregate…
Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office…
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed…
Since 9/11/2001 – when a 19 person volunteer unit from the Middle East, armed with a few box-cutters, forced the US public…
Nancy Duran Rodriguez took several pairs of work gloves to Mexico in 2025, intending to hand them out as a goodwill gesture…
As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with…
The election redistricting decisions made last week by the Virginia Supreme Court, by a 4-3 margin, and the US Supreme Court, by…
In April, the General Services Administration announced plans to automate 1 million work hours annually after cutting nearly 40 percent of its staff since…
The average citizen, far from being Aristotle’s ‘political animal’, is largely ignorant of political affairs; but he is aware of one thing:…
On May 6th the New York Post published an editorial full of the crudest Stalinist style smears against protestors who had just…
I want to start with a question we’ve all been asked a thousand times—in grocery stores, in elevators, in the opening minutes…
The war resides mostly in the background here in the aggressor nation. Most of those who think about it at all tend…
The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26th, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on…
