11+ hour, 41+ min ago  (1422+ words) In the wake of the temporary U. S. /Iran ceasefire, hawkish commentary in leading American newspapers advanced the premise that the U. S. can dictate terms to Iran in negotiations, with a faith in the power of Washington's military might that was hard to…...

11+ hour, 53+ min ago  (374+ words) The long habit of underestimating revolutionary Iran has proved fatal to American presidencies. Trump is now caught in bind similar to the one in which Carter found himself inextricably entangled. The hostages today are not U. S. embassy personnel, since there have…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (979+ words) World organizations have declared that Israel is the criminal country of the world. And, therefore, trade with it must be curtailed, and it must happen soon. Israel is a nation that various world organizations like the UN, the ICC, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (607+ words) There is a simple way to avoid one of the most destructive elements in recent failed negotiations with Iran. The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in'June 2025'and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1248+ words) Renewed US threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure and Tehran's refusal to negotiate expose deepening diplomatic breakdown, legal concerns, and the human cost of escalation President Donald Trump renewed sweeping threats against Iran on Sunday, warning that "the whole country is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (842+ words) After Viktor Orban's landslide loss in Hungary, will Trump and even Putin be next in line for their political comeuppance? In the universe of far-right politics, the three members of the Axis of Evil are Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (484+ words) Who gains and who loses in Trump's America? The United States was always conceived as an imperial project, its DNA infected from the outset. Imagine the United States minus that historic erasure. Less tangibly, but perhaps more essentially, without that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (939+ words) Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U. S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict. A group of 23 United Nations human rights experts has called on all UN member states to halt weapons transfers to Israel following…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (548+ words) Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise'not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them? Last Friday, the transparent thinness of the pretense caused Politico to headline an article this…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (899+ words) Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago. After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the…...