Geography Archives: Middle East

The Council on Foreign Relations shrinks the political imagination of learners and deploys the interests of the elite among an increasingly precarious American populace.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join a U.S.-led “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s post-ceasefire future, a move announced despite an active International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Winning eight awards at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, this is a heart-rending account of the final hours of a 5 year-old Palestinian girl awaiting rescue and a magnificent tribute to her and the children of Gaza, finds Katherine Hajiyianni.

The following is from the news roundup during the 15 January livestream. Watch the entire episode here. Israel continues to kill and injure Palestinians across the Gaza Strip while the Israeli blockade remains firmly in place, despite nearly 100 days since the so-called ceasefire was agreed upon in October 2025. Israeli attacks killed at least […]

Vijay Prashad offers six points to make sense of the situation in Iran amid protests, violence, and threats of military intervention from Washington.

The IDF has carried out demolitions on both sides of the ‘yellow line,’ the vague boundary that separates the IDF-occupied side of Gaza from the rest of the Strip.

Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with its own state.

The recent sound of explosions over Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria are not merely the spasms by a declining U.S. empire. They are something much more terrifying—the dawning of the age of impunity.

Bankers from London to New York have made a killing off the drug trade for hundreds of years. From the Opium Wars of the British Empire to the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan and interventions across Latin America—the drug trade has been a core element to Western imperialism.

In 2025, there was notable momentum in both the Democratic and Republican parties toward substantive change in U.S. policy on Palestine.

Videos circulating on social media show tents being blown away, strong winds scattering belongings, displaced people pleading for help, and children shivering from the cold.

The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.

‘Intifada’ has a range of meanings, and the police must not be allowed to decide what it means themselves, explain Shabbir Lakha and Michael Lavalette.

Civil Defense Spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Tuesday that winter rains flooded 90 percent of tents in the war-torn enclave, leaving thousands of families without shelter.

After the Trump Regime Hijacks a Venezuelan Vessel, Iran hits back by Confiscating an Oil Tanker, the Phoenix, under Cook Islands Flag.

States Parties to the Genocide Convention, as well as other influential states, must take concrete and immediate steps to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza, including halting the supply of weapons and military support to Israel that are used to commit violations, and reviewing existing political and security cooperation in line with their obligation to prevent, and not contribute to, genocide.

Leaked training videos and new evidence expose Intellexa as more than just a rogue surveillance company. The Israeli firm stands as a pillar of Tel Aviv’s global cyberwarfare infrastructure, infiltrating phones worldwide through ‘zero-click’ methods, ad-based infections, and covert partnerships with authoritarian governments.

Israel is coming apart at the seams, both on a cultural and political basis.

Peter Oborne’s Complicit brings Britain’s political and media establishment thoroughly to account for its abetting of Israel’s genocide, finds Chris Bambery.

“Israel’s” domination of the Levant is built not only on land theft and military occupation, but on a regional system of hydro-colonialism that weaponizes rivers, aquifers, and water infrastructure to enforce dependence and control.