1+ day, 6+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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, 14+ hour ago   (731+ words) Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning. Weakening Atlantic Ocean currents could cripple agriculture in some of the world’s major breadbaskets, threatening global food security and raising the…...

4+ day, 2+ 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…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (699+ words) And a reaffirmation of the UN charter and international law. Chinese President Xi Jinping underlined the need for stronger international coordination for common security in West Asia and a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and international law. Xi demanded external…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (647+ words) Neil Thompson Informed Comment Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Egypt since 2016, amid deepening economic and security ties between Beijing and one of Washington’s major Arab allies. Egypt’s government said the two sides agreed…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (435+ words) But the story doesn’t end with Steinem. Norton connects the Cold War propaganda apparatus to CIA interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Italy and Indonesia, the enormous human toll of U.S. post-9/11 wars, and the cultural institutions and intellectuals allegedly enlisted to…...

1+ week, 3+ 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, 3+ hour ago   (533+ words) Juan Cole Informed Coment On Friday, the UN General Assembly, in a non-binding resolution, voted almost unanimously for the adoption of maps that show the true size of Africa rather than continuing to use the Mercator projection, which makes Greenland…...

1+ week, 1+ day 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…...