Category: Thinking Politically

Keir Starmer and Trump are putting on a puppet show for the cameras. Behind the scenes, Britain remains a junior imperialist partner working for the destruction of Iran.

Arriving in Spain on Friday for a two-day visit that will center on a gathering of progressive leaders from more than 100 political parties across five continents, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva emphasized that the summit was not “an anti-Trump meeting.” But the contrast between US President Donald Trump’s violent foreign and domestic…

Israel’s latest settlement approvals mark a major escalation in its control over the occupied West Bank, with 34 new settlements advancing alongside dozens already approved since 2022. Human rights observers describe the move as the largest land grab in decades, deepening de facto annexation and accelerating displacement of Palestinians. Much of the planned construction targets…

A research centre at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran has been left in ruins after warplanes struck the campus, in what Iranian authorities describe as part of a widening pattern of attacks on civilian sites during the US-Israel war on Iran.

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.