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What are the consequences of the Mecca Defence Pact between Pakistan, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia? Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment . He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University...
9 August 2026 Trump’s reckless war on Iran is threatening global economic collapse — as the region breaks out into a matrix of conflagrations, Trump seemingly has no way out. The United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran have inflamed West Asia...
El-Sayed’s victory exposes the cracks in America’s pro-Israel political consensus, showing that grassroots voters can now challenge establishment money and influence. More broadly, his victory signals that foreign policy is increasingly coming home to the ballot box, forcing Democrats to...
Although Donald Trump insists that the Strait of Hormuz is open, it ain’t. There are no direct talks between Iran and US representatives. In fact, it looks like Pakistan’s attempt at mediation is going nowhere. Iran has been talking with...
Bethlehem / Battir /PNN/ Monjed jadou In the heart of the historic village of Battir, renowned for its ancient agricultural terraces and traditional irrigation system, the annual “Battir Eggplant Market Festival” has been launched, drawing senior officials and local residents in...
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a trilateral defense pact on Friday, ostensibly binding three of the Muslim world’s most militarily and economically significant states into a mutual-defense arrangement, but the details of the agreement have not been published. Signed in...
Bethlehem /PNN / The West Bank’s health system is being pushed toward a collapse comparable to Gaza’s, not by airstrikes but by financial pressure and restrictions on movement, the head of a US-based medical aid group said on Thursday. Dr. Zaher Sahloul,...
How the United States is using oil, technology, transportation and the dollar system to rebuild its declining global power. #Glenn Diesen Welcome back. Professor Michael Hudson joins us today, and I would advise everyone to follow his work. I’ve left a link...
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Eight Arab and Muslim countries have accused Israel of violating the Gaza ceasefire as Israeli strikes continue more than nine months after the U.S.-mediated “truce” took effect. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan...
Action Against Hunger holds a commemoration event for the 17 staff members killed in Muttur, Sri Lanka on August 4th, 2006. Credit: Action Against Hunger By Rotimy Djossaya NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 2026 (IPS) This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy...
In Ceuta, Israel and the United States are sanctioning Spain for its support of Palestine and its refusal to join the war against Iran. The mass influx into Ceuta became one of the largest migration incidents on the external borders...
For more than two decades, endless wars have destabilized the Middle East, creating huge amounts of human suffering, displacement and trauma. The region is exhausted, with little faith in the possibility of peace and few structures to enable it. The region...
LISTEN NOW: Michigan just proved that money has its limits in elections. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed beat out establishment sweetheart Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in what was likely the most expensive Democratic primary in U.S. history. El-Sayed’s win was a major blow...
Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular activist and Muslim scholar arrested. Alicia Kearns, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs has called...
Norman Finkelstein examines a report recently published by an Israeli “Civil Commission” headed by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy Silenced No More—Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity. Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist...
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’ Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced this week that his government had denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials headed to Brazil ahead of October’s presidential election. “This week we had to deny visas to two young...
Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt., has been talking about a progressive political revolution for more than 10 years. On Wednesday, Sanders told reporters on a post-Aug. 4 election press call that his revolution has finally come to Michigan. Each of Sanders’...
Introduction “Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...
On the night of July 30, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his newly minted “Board of Peace” had reached what he termed a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every other armed group in Gaza....
In late June, cadets at the Israeli military’s officer training school sat through a lecture by Ofer Winter, a retired brigadier general and a polarizing figure in the Israel Defense Forces. According to Haaretz, Winter told the future officers that...
Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he...
New Age Ultimate, a team from the genocidal apartheid state of Israel, is due to participate in the World Ultimate Club Championships at the University of Limerick from 15th to 22nd August. New Age is a member of the Israeli Flying...
Analysts accuse Morocco of unleashing undocumented migrants into Ceuta. Many note how Tel Aviv and Washington are seizing the moment with particular zeal. Sarah Leah Whitson is a human rights lawyer and the former executive director of DAWN and the MENA...
In this third segment of a series on ecology and materialism, John Bellamy Foster concludes that across different societies starting from ancient China, the Hellenistic world and India, there is a parallelism of class struggles. They involve notions of self-consciousness...
No one denies that the occupation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war have delivered severe blows to tourism in Bethlehem. However, reducing the crisis to these factors alone means avoiding part of the truth that we must confront. Tourism is not...
A lot can change in a week. Barely five days after President Donald Trump hailed the “historic agreement” on Hamas’s disarmament by the Board of Peace (BOP) — the body Trump created to oversee his Gaza Peace Plan — the...
When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Donald Trump has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t...
Abdul El-Sayed became the latest progressive insurgent to win a Democratic nomination contest on Tuesday, when he bested sitting House Rep. Haley Stevens to become the party’s nominee for Senate in Michigan. At the time of writing, with 95% of the...
A major inquiry has been launched into British charities months after Declassified revealed donations may have been sent to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In an unprecedented move, the Charity Commission has opened an investigation into eight groups to...
In today’s newsletter: The past week shows how quickly images, rumours and right-wing political opportunism can eclipse the facts on the ground Good morning. Last week, an estimated 72,000 migrants began crossing into a tiny Spanish enclave on the tip of...
Questions continue to swirl around the flash flood of nearly 60,000 migrants who swam or walked from Morocco into Ceuta, a tiny Spanish enclave on the tip of Africa last week. How did so many migrants manage to breach Moroccan border...
Introduction “Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...
US President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace appears to be going back on the disarmament deal it reached last week with Hamas in order to meet Israel’s demands, and it may throw the entire process into jeopardy. A roadmap agreed to last week, which Trump...
Islam Times - Addressing the commemoration of the Arbaeen of Imam Hussein [AS], Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem delivered a wide-ranging speech that intertwined the enduring lessons of Karbala with the current political and security developments across...
Wildfires have brought the issue of climate action back into the public debate, just as politicians had thought they were safe to dump it for good. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org and...
Israel’s ‘spyware diplomacy’ should have every country in the world worrying about election interference by the zionist state. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and co–founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written for the Guardian, the New York Times,...
The crisis of American politics is much deeper than Donald Trump. Cross-posted from Micha el Hudson’s blog Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to another Geopolitical Economy Hour, the socialist and anti-imperialist conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our...
Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza City on Tuesday to bury 112 people, including 40 children, from the Abu Sharia and Hassaineh families. Their bodies were recovered over the past weeks from beneath the ruins of their homes in the Sabra...
On July 23, Donald Trump announced that U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia would proceed only if Riyadh joins the Abraham Accords and normalizes relations with Israel. More than a technical dispute, the condition raises a fundamental question about...
A new link-up between natural gas fields in Cyprus and processing facilities in Egypt was greenlit last week, with European energy giants TotalEnergies and Eni taking their final investment decision to fund the project. The deal will allow for natural gas...
When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Donald Trump has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t...
Amid the clearance revenue crisis and declining public spending, the Palestinian private sector has become one of the most important pillars sustaining economic activity. Its role extends far beyond generating profits: it preserves jobs and household incomes, supplies goods and...
RAMALLAH /PNN / A new public opinion poll indicates that Palestinians increasingly view the private sector as a critical pillar of economic resilience, as the effects of the clearance revenue crisis and banking restrictions deepen, eroding purchasing power and raising concerns...
Islam Times - Ziyad al-Nakhalah, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, emphasized that the movement's delegation had traveled to Tehran to attend the farewell ceremony for the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, as a...
Islam Times - Mohammad Sabu, Malaysia's Minister of Agriculture and Special Envoy of the Malaysian Government, emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran represents a coherent political and intellectual model that has succeeded in establishing itself as an active and...
Islam Times - Osama Hamdan, a member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), emphasized that the martyrdom of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Martyr Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, does not mark the end of an...
Islam Times - Mohammed Saleh Al-Nuaimi, Vice President of Yemen's Supreme Political Council, stressed that Martyr Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei was an exceptional leader of the Islamic Ummah throughout his years of struggle and public service. He stated that the...
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