By Lyla Mehta* and Alan Nicol* – Inter Press Service (IPS) The 2026 campaign on World Water Day’s focuses on Water and Gender – ‘where water flows, equality grows’ . While substantial progress has been achieved across a range of gender indicators spanning education, health and…
By Eran Yashiv* – Foreign Affairs A Socioeconomic Divide Shapes the Country’s Politics—and Its Aggressive Foreign Policy. Imagine two Middle Eastern countries.
By Guy Christensen* – Common Dreams Palantir has merged American empire, Zionist military infrastructure, surveillance capitalism, and technofascist ideology into a single architecture of control. A former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a…
By Ramzy Baroud* – Middle East Monitor (MEMO) When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on 28th February, they appeared convinced that the war would be swift. Netanyahu reportedly assured Washington that the campaign would deliver a…
By Logan McMillen* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Trump is attempting to synthesize the dying Oil Revolution with the ascendant Mineral Revolution. If you consume mainstream foreign policy analysis, the current posture of the United States appears to be a chaotic sequence of…
By Ramzy Baroud* – Middle East Monitor (MEMO) Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s resignation is shocking, but not for the obvious reason. It is not shocking simply because it…
By Ben Reiff* – The Guardian A red-flag alert has been issued by one genocide-prevention organisation. This is not the time for empty condemnations but sanctions and arms embargos. Anyone following Israeli media discourse in recent days may be experiencing a severe case of deja…
By Pepe Escobar* – The Cradle China’s dual-track response to the US–Israeli war on Iran reflects a broader geopolitical and economic strategy that stretches from the battlefield to the global financial system. China is officially responding on two parallel tracks to the Epstein…
By Michael Werz* – Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) While world energy markets are in upheaval over the halt in fossil fuel shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, there is also a brewing crisis over a sharp cutback in food supplies that normally transit the Gulf. The…
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III. The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war.
