Category: Thinking Politically

Takes an innovative approach to getting Americans to better understand what the US is doing in Iran.

Israel’s new law effectively providing for the death penalty solely against Palestinians constitutes a discriminatory regime of capital punishment and manifestly violates Israel’s obligations under international human rights law.

In his first interview since returning from Gaza, David McIntosh says he witnessed Israeli soldiers firing open fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking aid.

What happens when war targets not just land or lives, but the very capacity to think? This powerful essay argues that recent attacks on Iran’s universities and schools signal a dangerous shift—from military confrontation to the deliberate destruction of knowledge systems. By framing education as a threat, power seeks to control who can innovate, imagine,…

United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago.

Argues that the left needs to do much more political organizing, and much less analyzing to show how smart we are.

The people “want to rebuild it with their own hands — without foreign pressure or intervention,” said one Gazan.

A searing indictment draws parallels between Gaza’s devastation and the Warsaw Ghetto, not to equate histories but to expose recurring patterns of enclosure, dehumanisation and mass destruction. The article situates Gaza within a longer trajectory of settler-colonial violence, systemic erasure and global complicity, arguing that impunity has enabled catastrophic human loss and institutional collapse. As…

Will a US-Israeli war on Iran redraw the political map of West Asia—or deepen the long shadow over Palestine? Dr Ramzy Baroud situates the conflict within a century-long arc of imperial design, from Sykes-Picot Agreement to the Abraham Accords, arguing that today’s war is less rupture than culmination. While Palestine is not always foregrounded in…

Residents of border villages have been abandoned by the Lebanese army as Israeli troops invade.