23+ hour, 17+ min ago   (259+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

22+ hour, 22+ min ago   (762+ words) Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly. During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1762+ words) Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become a radical internationalist late in life. As historian…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1002+ words) Finally someone in high public office has had the nerve to state the obvious: that Britain’s Orthodox chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, is talking complete nonsense. Sadly, no one in the media seems ready to listen to Ed Miliband, the UK’s…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (235+ words) Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Iran launches newly acquired precision missiles towards US warships in the Persian Gulf as the Trump administration’s ‘Economic D-Day’ backfires tremendously. In this Monday’s episode of The Target Stream Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh takes a…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (764+ words) Jon Wilson Informed Coment On October 27, Israelis go to the polls in an election fraught with debate about ancient history. The country’s right-wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has concrete plans to extend sovereignty over much of the West Bank and…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1135+ words) Kit Klarenberg Substack Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 - 2021 the German government surreptitiously funnelled millions into a highly discriminatory project facilitating expansion of Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank. Under its auspices, public money and knowledge production were…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (928+ words) But with purchasing power destroyed by nearly three years of war and displacement, food on the shelves remains out of reach for the majority of Gaza’s population. In a tent in Tal al-Hawa, west of Gaza City, 39-year-old Iman Abdel…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (790+ words) In every war, there is supposed to come a moment when the guns fall silent and families carry their dead to the cemetery. In Gaza, that moment has still not fully arrived. Nearly three years into the war, thousands of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (746+ words) Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove, California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion at a nearby…...