By Brad Reed* – Common Dreams “A world where soft power has real and lasting impact is simply less profitable for a company like Palantir relative to a world where we blow a lot of stuff up,” said one critic. Scholars on authoritarianism are expressing alarm after tech company…
By Alon Ben Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ For decades, five powerful actors—the United States, the Arab states, the European Union, AIPAC, and Israel’s own opposition—have all claimed to seek Israeli-Palestinian peace while enabling permanent occupation, together…
By Rameen Siddiqui* – Modern Diplomacy It asks not simply whether the United States has been weakened but whether the surrounding environment has become more stable or more chaotic. While the United States was burning through cruise missiles, threatening to destroy Iranian…
Davies* – Common Dreams How long must the US war on Iran go on, and how badly must the US be defeated, before it will agree to a permanent peace? The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June…
By Alfred de Zayas* – Article sent to Other News by the author Antigone is a timeless Greek tragedy by Sophocles (497-406 BC), a drama of abuse of power and moral pushback. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, defies the arbitrary decrees of King Creon and asserts the superiority of…
By Imran Khalid* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Peace is not impossible, but the old ways of achieving it are increasingly obsolete. The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait…
By Kurniawan Arif Maspul* – Middle East Monitor (MEMO) Silence, in international politics, is rarely neutral. In Sudan, it has become lethal.
By Talal Hassan* – Geopolitical Monitor There is a moment in war when the machinery of statecraft reaches for something older than the language of national interest and deterrence. In the Trump administration’s confrontation with Iran, that turn did not emerge from classified…
By Prabhat Patnaik* – Newsclick It is the people of the Global South, not governments, who must resist this subversion of the concepts of the ‘nation’ and of non-alignment. The Indian government’s position on the US-Israeli war against Iran shows an unbelievable degree of…
By Marjorie Cohn* – Truthout Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon. While the world’s attention is focused on the U.S.-Israeli aggression in Iran and Donald Trump’s genocidal proclamations, Israel is perpetrating genocide in Lebanon. Trump…
