Tag: Middle East

179 Unarmed International Participants on 21 Boats Kidnapped in International Waters by Israeli Navy On the evening of Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Israeli naval forces attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to Gaza.  An unknown number of Israeli military ships traveled more than 700 miles to attack a 54-ship flotilla that was headed...
In August 2025, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled that the perennial lawsuit filed by the families of 9/11 victims against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) can finally proceed to trial. The landmark decision renewed interest into the widely suspected Saudi role in...
From just €560 a month to frozen accounts and prison threats over baby food—how the EU and Germany are imposing total civil death on a German journalist and his family for naming the Gaza genocide. Hüseyin Doğru, a German citizen of Turkish-Kurdish origin with exclusively German nationality, who...
1. Modern Imperialism and the Structural Logic of War In the history of United States foreign policy, wars have rarely been the product of an immediate and unavoidable threat; rather, they have often been the outcome of a complex process of narrative construction, economic interests, and geopolitical calculations. The recent...
On November 22, 1963, the same day as the JFK assassination, Mehdi Ben Barka, an anti-colonial politician and head of the left-wing Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) of Morocco, was sentenced to death in absentia for conspiracy to overthrow King Hassan II. The sentence was carried out two years later...
Even when the U.S. and Israel fired missiles and dropped bombs on the home of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his wife and other members of his family, killing more than 40 members of the leadership of Iran, senior Iranian officials had maintained that Iran would never develop...
At the March 4, 2026, Intelligence and Security Committee, Green Party national security and intelligence spokesperson Teanau Tuiono asked the heads of New Zealand’s two primary spy agencies to clarify the country’s intelligence relationship with Israel. “I’ve been thinking about…the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran,…and I wonder if you could...
I believe the status quo in Israel cannot persist because the “peace process” has failed to deliver any kind of resolution. Most people date the beginning of the Israel-Palestine conflict to the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. But the conflict had been brewing for much longer.- Ilan Pappé On March 14,...
Just a day after Donald Trump made a national prime-time address on April 1st claiming the US is “winning and winning big” in the war on Iran, an American F-15E Strike Eagle fighter plane was shot down over a mountainous region of eastern Iran, kicking off a frantic search-and-rescue and a covert misinformation operation by the CIA within Iran...
As public support for the war in Iran dips lower and lower, the Trump administration is not only threatening a massive bombing campaign but appears to be planning a large-scale ground invasion, including (1) seizure of Iran’s main export terminal at Kharg Island, and (2) raids on nuclear facilities. The...