18+ hour, 10+ min ago  (777+ words) A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and does not shy away from condemning it in clear terms. Yet, almost invariably, she feels compelled to qualify…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (767+ words) Savage Minds | Substack Confused Closures and Opaque Openings Continuing Dramas in the Hormuz Strait Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and…...

5+ day, 29+ min ago  (264+ words) In September 2025, a UN Commission found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza (UNOHCHR, 2025), a finding that was agreed upon by many experts on genocide, including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and human rights organisations including Amnesty International as…...

6+ day, 47+ min ago  (405+ words) The asymmetry was not merely military; it was civilisational in its impact. Entire communities were reduced to debris, their reconstruction still incomplete two decades on. Decades after the bombs fall silent, Lebanon's shattered streets still whisper a brutal truth: reconstruction…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (10+ words) Is Cameroon Headed To Dynastic Succession? Savage Minds | Substack...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1637+ words) In this fact-based public letter, the authors deliver a sweeping critique of American foreign policy and historical conduct. The letter states that for "249 years'spanning the entirety of its existence since 1776'the United States built a record of atrocity that belonged…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (837+ words) Millions of Iranians took to the streets to mark the 40 day of the mourning of the deaths of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, various other leaders, and the school children of Minab on Thursday, 9 April. Iran's leaders and 170 schoolchildren in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (883+ words) Israel Kills 303 in Lebanon Within Hours of the Iran-US Ceasefire'Savage Minds | Substack Ceasefire Exemptions and Quarries of Death: Israel's War on Lebanon In the Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (971+ words) Israel's latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut moves in step with US-Israeli efforts to isolate Hezbollah and weaken Iran's negotiating position. In a previous article,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (431+ words) What emerges with increasing clarity is the urgent need to reimagine deterrence itself'not as the infliction of overwhelming force, but as a framework rooted in credible restraint, mutual vulnerability, and enforceable international guarantees that privilege the preservation of human life…...