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Image via Wikimedia Commons Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights file a brief as amicus curiae in a Third Circuit Court of Appeals case brought by Israel lobby group Thursday, March 5th — Palestine Legal and...

February 18th, 2026 — Last week, Palestine Legal wrote to Ohio State University (OSU) expressing serious concerns about the school's repeated censorship and criminalization of student speech. The legal letter demands that the school end its discriminatory enforcement of...

L’attacco congiunto di Stati Uniti e Israele contro l’Iran, culminato nell’uccisione di ʿAlī Khāmeneī e nella morte o nel ferimento di centinaia di civili, rappresenta una gravissima violazione del diritto internazionale e un ulteriore salto verso la barbarie imperialista. Segue...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for carrying out his sweeping immigration crackdown . According to multiple media reports, Trump was upset with Noem's...

Despite a DoD ban on Anthropic over its demands that its tech not be used for fully autonomous military targeting, its AI model, Claude, is enjoying prime time use in the U.S. war on Iran. Indeed, the U.S. military leveraged its...

The US and Qatar are in discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones as a cheap alternative to down Iranian Shahed UAVs amid the war in the Gulf, a source familiar with the...

As the conflict in the Middle East engulfs more countries, recent media reports alleging that the CIA is planning to arm Kurdish ground troops to spark an uprising in Iran have been met with vehement denials by Iraqi Kurdish officials....

“That was meters away from us, that’s the Fairmont Hotel,” said white British fitness influencer Will Bailey in an Instagram video to his 122K followers, standing at the poolside in a crisp white shirt, club music pumping in...

The Shoah was possible because no one could imagine Auschwitz. Reality overwhelms our imagination. Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris Cross-posted from Emmanuel Todd’s Substack...

Weeks after suffering a major setback in Syria, the Kurds are again at the centre of another major crisis in the Middle East. Just days after the Trump administration began its war on Iran , reports emerged that...

In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next Jonathan Cook is the author of three...

Israel and the US launched missile strikes on Iran on 28 February following weeks of nuclear negotiations, in a move that triggered shockwaves across the region. The operation resulted in the killing of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...

LENA PETROVA: Welcome, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. I’m Lena Petrova with a new episode of World Affairs in Context. Today, I’m honored to be joined by Professor Michael Hudson, a renowned economist, distinguished research professor of...

In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understand what’s gone on. This...

When Syrian forces moved into Kurdish-held territories in northeastern Syria in January, Turkish officials let out a sigh of relief. The “Kurdish question” seemed to be nearing resolution. For Turkey, armed Kurdish movements seeking cultural and political autonomy across Turkey,...

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 2 March 2026. Conduct prompt and thorough Investigation; ensure accountability Two unknown assailants shot and killed housing rights activist Zweli ‘Khabazela’ Mkhize on February 12. He was the Treasurer of the...

Yemen's Houthis are believed to be holding the Bab al-Mandab strait as their ultimate leverage amid Iran's war with Israel and the US . If they decide to close it, this choke off Gulf oil exports particularly if the...

This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 4 March 2026. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the provisional release of journalist Sandra Muhoza and calls on Burundian authorities not to oppose her appeal of her conviction. On February 27,...

When Angelo Villagomez began working in ocean conservation in the late 2000s, it was not an inclusive field for him. “My Indigenous identity was not necessarily welcomed,” says the Micronesian conservationist and marine policy expert. “I would have short hair,...

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 27 February 2026. Guinea’s media regulator, the High Authority for Communication (HAC), has announced that it will publish a list of journalists and media outlets authorised to operate ahead of the...

This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 4 March 2026. Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the summons issued by the Delta State Police Command to Comrade Victor Ojie, leader of the Young Nigerian Rights Organization (YNRO), to...

Iran has stepped up its attacks on the region's oil infrastructure as the deputy commander of its war room said it was "exercising our naval authority" over the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state TV said on Thursday...

Since Donald Trump launched his regime change war against Iran over the weekend — reportedly at the urging of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with no real plan for what comes...

Hezbollah has deployed elite fighters to confront Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, sending them back into the border region from which they withdrew after a war in 2024, three Lebanese sources familiar with the deployments said, as the Iran-backed...

On March 3, the U.S. Southern Command announced on X that American forces had participated in actions alongside Ecuadorian security forces: “Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launched operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador. The operations are a...

After a drone hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on Sunday night, the debate in Britain has centred on why the airfield was not better protected. But in Cyprus, anger is focused on why Britain still has military...

While most European leaders have responded to the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran with condemnations of the Iranian regime and tepid calls for “de-escalation” designed not to offend Washington, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has unequivocally condemned...

The first wave of US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran on 28 February killed at least 175 people, including children, after a school was struck. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , was also reported killed during...

California 's Democrat governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday compared Israel to an "apartheid state", taking a shot at the country's government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Newsom made the remarks at a promotional event for his new memoir...