Install
Shedding light on how war, globalization and climate change are shaping our world Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
- 70articles · 30d
- 8+ hour agolatest article
- Aug 14, 2026earliest in window
- 91%with images
- 317avg words
- Politics 51
- Sensitive Subjects 29
- Conflict, War & Peace 28
- Politics2 23
- News 20
- Environment 10
- People & Society 9
- Science & Nature 9
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Have the US, Israel and Saudis lost the Battle of the Narrows?
8+ hour, 40+ min ago (335+ words) Ann Arbor (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…...
Beyond Iran: Washington's Long Record of Middle East Blunders
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (951+ words) ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence. Washington is rapidly losing power and status in the Middle East, a decline…...
Iran War: Tehran’s assertive Rhetoric signals a new and dangerous Phase in Conflict
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (860+ words) By Bamo Nouri, City St George’s, University of London and Inderjeet Parmar, City St George’s, University of London Tehran has also announced it is preparing to sign an agreement with Oman which would establish a new corridor through the Strait…...
Israeli Strikes Wound Journalists in Lebanon and Gaza amid "Ceasefires"
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (334+ words) ( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Amman | – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the recent escalation in Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon, which have injured at least four journalists, including three on Sunday, underscoring the fragility of the ceasefires…...
Israel's Dark Dream of Gaza without Gazans
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (203+ words) Speaking on 2nd September at a conference organised by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz returned to a theme so rapidly hardening it is likely to ossify at any given moment: that a Gaza filled with…...
In War Crime, Trump sinks Civilian Iranian Tanker, disables 2 Others
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (298+ words) The US Central Command released video of the strikes: CENTCOM Destroys 3 IRGC Oil Tankers After Iran Targets 2 U.S. Navy Warships The US sinking of an unarmed Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman appears to be a war crime. The…...
US Communities are Organizing to end Complicity with the Gaza Genocide in their Backyards
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (816+ words) ( Waging Nonviolence ) – 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…...
The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure
1+ week, 1+ day ago (242+ words) ( Truthdig ) – We are in the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he is a hero. Last week, he proudly declared “Mission Accomplished…...