8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (264+ words) In September 2025, a UN Commission found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza (UNOHCHR, 2025), a finding that was agreed upon by many experts on genocide, including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and human rights organisations including Amnesty International as…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (405+ words) The asymmetry was not merely military; it was civilisational in its impact. Entire communities were reduced to debris, their reconstruction still incomplete two decades on. Decades after the bombs fall silent, Lebanon's shattered streets still whisper a brutal truth: reconstruction…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (822+ words) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on Sunday that the talks with the US in Islamabad failed because of Washington's maximalist approach and last-minute attempt to shift the goalposts. He noted that these were the first high-level talks between the…...

23+ hour, 49+ min ago  (520+ words) There is growing expectation in Tehran that the Islamabad talks with the US may open the door leading into the rose garden. But footfalls still echo in the memory, as the US has been an utterly unreliable and unscrupulous interlocutor....

4+ day ago  (564+ words) In Mecca, this collapse was weaponised rhetorically; it was framed as proof that monotheistic polities could not withstand the force of a more cohesive imperial power. But stripped of doctrinal framing, it reveals something more enduring: the anatomy of resilience....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1637+ words) In this fact-based public letter, the authors deliver a sweeping critique of American foreign policy and historical conduct. The letter states that for "249 years'spanning the entirety of its existence since 1776'the United States built a record of atrocity that belonged…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (891+ words) Savage Minds | Substack The Israel-Iran Conflict Is Now a Zero-Sum Game Positing a Scenario Once the Americans Withdraw The two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran announced on 8 April and agreement to negotiate Iran's 10-point plan does not directly involve…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (25+ words) We Are Not Free Till We Are All Free: Fi Li A, Zionist Feminism and the War That Is Splitting the Gender-Critical Movement'Savage Minds | Substack...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (837+ words) Millions of Iranians took to the streets to mark the 40 day of the mourning of the deaths of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, various other leaders, and the school children of Minab on Thursday, 9 April. Iran's leaders and 170 schoolchildren in…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (883+ words) Israel Kills 303 in Lebanon Within Hours of the Iran-US Ceasefire'Savage Minds | Substack Ceasefire Exemptions and Quarries of Death: Israel's War on Lebanon In the Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting....