The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that…
Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is…
With fierce anger burning in our hearts and an unbreakable resolve, we mourn the assassination of the courageous feminist and leftist leader…
Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools…
I’ve spent decades writing about men—how we’re shaped, how we’re wounded, and how too often those wounds are mistaken for strength. (I’ve…
As a political-cultural geographer who has long been an antiwar organizer and studied the history of U.S. military interventions, it’s clear that…
INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT’S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued…
Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace,…
In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk…
When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had…
Introduction: The Problem Goes Beyond Electoral Defeat The recurrent rise and fall of left-wing governments across Latin America and Central America—from Venezuela…
This is the English translation of the original introduction to our book, Nella Terza guerra mondiale. Un lessico politico per le lotte del…
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network,…
The debate over the “right of nations to self-determination” within segments of the Iranian left is less the result of a concrete…
For weeks, allegations of sleaze, nepotism, and corruption inside the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have dominated local media in Germany. Nepotism within…
ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential…
A social democratic order is one in which society, through the state, asserts control over the market and subordinates it to the…
I wrote over a year ago that “doomerism,” or “doomism,” if you prefer, ought to be a precondition for activism. If you believe…
When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
In January 2026, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a grim update to its earlier work, titled Living Hell: The Israeli…
Trump’s 2026 State of the Union speech was historic—but only in the sense of the longest ever at 1 hour and 47…
Europe is about to normalise offshore asylum processing — and with it, a more distant and less accountable model of deportation. New EU…
For more than six decades, the United States has been suffocating the Cuban people by imposing anachronistic and inhumane economic sanctions. These…
Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” just got squashed. The Supreme Court on February 20 denied, by a 6-3 decision, the Trump administration’s power…
Anna Bueker went to work at the BFGoodrich plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in her early 20s and began building a good…
Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly “talented” specimen of humanity. He had some combination of “qualities” that facilitated his assembling an…
Organizers across the USA convened on February 16, 2026 to discuss the potential of social strikes in combatting Trump’s authoritarian juggernaut. Join…
As mothers and other caregivers, we are furious and deeply upset at the reign of terror being imposed on immigrants, our families…
California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive, led by the Service Employees International Union, to enact a one-time…
Distractions Currently working people are inveterately distracted with attacks on the Constitution by MAGA gangsters, thugs, and reprobates. Another distraction is the…
Mutilation It all happened so quickly that few people noticed. In fifteen years, Europe went from being a large continent to a…
At first glance, everything separates the Munich Conference of 1938 from the Munich Security Conference of 2026. The former saw Czechoslovakia sacrificed…
Rebellions against injustice and poverty go back centuries, millenia, throughout the world. People “on the bottom” of human societies, sooner or later,…
What is happening in Iran is not a “crisis.” A crisis implies a state of temporary imbalance. In Iran, however, what is…
Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel, has suggested that he would not object if Israel were to take most of…
Forty-seven years ago, after a millennia of monarchical rule, Iran reinvented its political system. The Islamic Republic was birthed by the Revolution…
The current liberal surge feels real, a swell in public sentiment that suggests energy and possibility. Polling numbers rise, and political commentators…
President Donald Trump seems to think he is King of the World, not just the United States. Even as he convenes his…
In Germany’s recent election – held in February 2025 – the AfD managed to become the second-strongest political force, winning 21%. Four…
A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the…
After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
These days, I find myself thinking of a character from the old Yugoslav partisan film Battle of Sutjeska. The film is dedicated to…
A critique of the Left’s unconditional solidarity with ruling Kurdish parties, and a call for class-based solidarity that sides with workers and…
In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security—a designation that allows…
During the past fourteen months since Trump took office, financial asset market bubbles accelerated to record levels in 2025—i.e. S&P 500 and…
The boats that carried the Rohingya across the Naf River in 2017 did more than ferry desperate families into Bangladesh. They carried…
Climate change is no longer just an environmental variable—it is reshaping economic, social, and strategic balances worldwide. In the MENA region, one…
Two members of the European Union’s Election Observer Mission visited The Deltagram yesterday to seek the newspaper’s assessment of Bangladesh’s 13th general election.…
