Middle East 4 ChangeWar crimes
Friday, November 24, 2023
Conor Gearty International law takes a special interest in war. Where there is an armed conflict or an occupation it is not enough to hope vaguely that human…
Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 – in Gaza in 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Jonathan Cook Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza, driving Palestinians outside their homeland as happened in 1948. And yet, just as during the first “Nakba”,…
‘The Refugee Problem’
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Leila Farsakh writes about the Palestinians’ struggle for recognition Almost a month has elapsed since Hamas fighters broke the siege that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip for…
Vengeful Pathologies: Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza
Monday, November 6, 2023
On 16 October , Sabrina Tavernise, the host of the New York Times podcast The Daily, spoke to two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ‘So, Abdallah,’ Tavernise said to Abdallah Hasaneen, a…
No Peace Without Justice: Gaza Has Just Vanquished a 20-Year-Old Israeli PlanRamzy Baroud
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Despite statements made, back then, by Israeli officials that the ‘disengagement’ plan aimed at severing Israel’s legal and other responsibilities from its role as an Occupier, the actual…
After Hamas Attack, Israel Launches Genocidal Destruction
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Ralph Nader In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s horrific counterattack on mostly Israeli civilians and Israel’s hourly genocidal bombing on Gaza’s more than 2 million people – nearly…
Iran: The past will not return to the future
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Ardeshir Mehrdad Iran has arrived at a moment of explosive but contradictory developments and the people have become aware of a break with normal life. These are characteristics…
Revolutionary uprising in Iran: Victories and weak points
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Shahab Borhan translated by Yassamine Mather Recently a friend asked me: “How do you see the future of the movement?” I answered: “I am not a fortune-teller –…
The Hijab as a Billboard for Islamist Propaganda
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Ibrahim Quraishi As the counter-revolutionary movement intensified for over five weeks in Iran, egregious State murders indeed transformed three young brave women by the names of Nika Shakarami,…
Protests in Iran: a unique experience with global significance
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Mehdi Kia The protest movement in Iran, now in its sixth week and with no end in sight, is in many ways unusual. Its ability to maintain almost…
Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Max Fisher Mass protests, once a grave threat to even the fiercest autocrat, have plummeted in effectiveness, a study shows. Factors appear to include polarization, social media and…
اقتصاد سیاسی حجاب اجباری
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Political economy of compulsory hejab احمد فخیم Ahmad Fakhim سالهاست که راست ایرانی، مدام بر طبل این ادعا میکوبد که: «آزادی فردی روی دیگر سکهی مالکیت شخصی یا مالکیت…
Zionism: Messianic colonialism
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Moshé Machover Recently I was watching live news from Jerusalem, which exemplified in a frightening way the subject of this article[1]This article is based on the talk given…
Russia-Ukraine war: US quest to preserve global hegemony could be its downfall
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Marco Carnelos When the doyen of foreign policy gurus, Henry Kissinger, is hinting that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to help end the invasion, you know in…
Behind Israeli apartheid
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it Amnesty…
A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising?: an Interview with Aynur Kurmanov on the Protests in Kazakhstan
Friday, January 7, 2022
Zanovo Media Today all post-Soviet mass-media and TV channels are riveted to the protests that suddenly engulfed Kazakhstan. To some they arouse hope, to others – horror and…
Ecological Leninism
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Adam Tooze on Andreas Malm’s post-pandemic climate politics The carbon clock is ticking. Governments and official agencies assure us that all will be well, that they can balance the…
Dispossession, proletarianization and the uprising of dispossessed Arabs in Iran’s Khuzestan province
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Soon after the election of Raisi as new President of Iran with a historically low turnout, Iran faced a widespread wave of protests and strikes. The…
سلبمالکیت، پرولتریزهشدن و خیزشهای فرودستان عرب خوزستان
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Ardeshir Mehrdad argues that the recent protests by the Arab population of Khuzestan province of Iran was not only the result of ethnic-national discrimination suffered by…
Iran: The Imam, the strikers and the black, black oil
Monday, August 9, 2021
Peyman Jafari “We are melting away,” lamented the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on December 26 1978 in a phone tap of a conversation with his advisor and former…
Reflections on the State of Democracy in Iran after the 2021 Elections: An Elegy for the Voting Non-Voter
Monday, August 2, 2021
Shervin Malekzadeh SpongeBob SquarePants showed up on the boulevard halfway to midnight, almost two hours after state officials confirmed Hassan Rouhani as the seventh President of the Islamic Republic…
Each rock has two names: the war over Nagorno-Karabakh
Friday, June 25, 2021
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Outside the town of Agdam, in the foothills of Nagorno-Karabakh, trucks and tank carriers had left tracks in the muddy road. Bomb craters and mangled military…
Ghosts in the Land
Friday, May 28, 2021
Adam Shatz on the war in Israel-Palestine On 21 May Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire after eleven days of fighting, but the days of ‘quiet’ – as the New…
Stench of Zionist colonialism
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Moshé Machover The Zionist colonisation regime spreads a nauseating stench – literally. I am referring to an Israeli invention, appropriately named ‘Skunk’ and described as a “non-lethal weapon…
Turkey at the Crossroad
Monday, April 5, 2021
Cihan Tuğal Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural…
Turkey at the Crossroads?
Friday, February 26, 2021
Cihan Tuğal Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural…
Arab Spring: The End of Political Islam as We Know It
Monday, February 15, 2021
Abdullah Al-Arian Last month, Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker and head of the Ennahda Party, Rached Ghannouchi, came under fire for comments he made following a meeting with the French ambassador. Following a recent string…
Iran: Three waves of urban protest, 1992-2019
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Since the beginning of the 1990s, Iranian society has witnessed successive waves of protest movements. One could argue that it has been in a perpetual state…
The House of Zion
Monday, December 28, 2020
Perry Anderson Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel in the post-Cold War world—us…
Arab Spring: The end of political Islam as we know it
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Abdullah Al-Arian Last month, Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker and head of the Ennahda Party, Rached Ghannouchi, came under fire for comments he made following a meeting with the French ambassador. Warning…