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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • France Protests

    Tear gas, mass arrests as France halts classes over student protests

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on October 7, 2026 by Al Mayadeen Staff (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Oct 08, 2026)

    France suspends high school classes after one of its largest student protests in decades, with 6,100 arrests, hundreds injured and tear gas used in cities.

  • Rally

    War on Yemen exposes deepening Saudi-Israeli military coordination

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on October 4, 2026 by SheerPost (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2026)

    A ScheerPost analysis argues that Saudi Arabia and “Israel” are deepening covert military cooperation against the Yemeni Armed Forces through intelligence sharing, private contacts, and sectarian messaging.

  • Kimberly Guilfoyle

    Trump amb. to Greece causes stir: U.S. has power to topple governments

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 29, 2026 by The Financial Times (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Oct 02, 2026)

    Remarks by Trump’s envoy raise fresh questions over U.S. meddling in Romania’s political crisis and the fall of its government.

  • Governor Gavin Newsom

    California orders review of AI ‘kill switch’, safety controls

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 18, 2026 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2026)

    California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a review of a possible mandatory AI “kill switch,” independent audits and incident reporting amid growing concerns over advanced systems escaping human control.

  • (IAEA)

    IAEA inspections found no case of non-compliance in Iran nuclear sites

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 23, 2026 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 25, 2026)

    Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami says the IAEA had access to all Iranian facilities.

  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

    Italy moves to ban burqas, cap foreign students in schools

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 20, 2026 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 22, 2026)

    The policy targets a small minority, as Muslims make up under 5 percent of Italy’s population, a figure most Italians drastically overestimate.

  • Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

    NAZA: How a film became an ‘eighth front’ shaking ‘Israel’ from within

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 15, 2026 by Al Mayadeen Israeli Affairs Department (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 16, 2026)

    Built on testimonies from Israeli military personnel, NAZA has triggered a political and security uproar over how Gaza’s war was conducted.

  • OpenAI

    OpenAI admits ‘wiki incident’ as AI safety concerns grow

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 6, 2026 by Reuters (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2026)

    OpenAI acknowledges its agents misused a German wiki as a message board, renewing scrutiny over AI safety, transparency, and oversight of autonomous systems.

  • “terror-network”

    Israeli military taps 30 U.S. universities for AI, drones, and robotics

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 3, 2026 by Responsible Statecraft (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 05, 2026)

    Millions in U.S. defense funding are supporting university projects tied to Israeli military research, including surveillance technology, AI targeting systems, and drone development.

  • war on history

    Ukraine’s ultranationalist war on history

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on August 18, 2026 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    A new study warns that Ukraine’s expanding system of memory laws has turned historical narratives into a tool of state enforcement, deepening restrictions on public discourse and intensifying efforts to shape national identity amid the conflict with Russia.

  • Israeli Tank

    ‘Israel’ wages ecocide against southern Lebanon’s woodlands

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on August 12, 2026 by The Guardian (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Aug 13, 2026)

    “Israel” is deliberately setting fires across southern Lebanon, destroying woodlands, olive groves and farmland while threatening ecosystems and forcing communities from their land.

  • Zeinab al-Hajj

    Unbreakable Cuba: Why Washington still fears a defiant island

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on August 5, 2026 by Janna Kadri (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2026)

    For over six decades, Cuba has been cast as a strategic threat not because of its military power, but because its enduring sovereignty and resistance to US dominance challenge Washington’s control over the hemisphere.

  • Sino-Indian war

    How CIA secretly triggered Sino-Indian war

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 2025 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    Decades of determined U.S. efforts to foment antagonism between the vast neighbours have come spectacularly undone, due to the sheer weight of geopolitical reality.

  • fascism

    Stopping contemporary fascism: What is to be done?

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on May 26, 2026 by Pedro Monzón Barata (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jul 23, 2026)

    Contemporary fascism has evolved into a globalized system of authoritarian domination led by the US and its allies, combining military aggression, economic coercion, media manipulation, and institutional capture against resistance movements and sovereign states across the Global South.

  • AI trained to study individual birds in wild populations

    AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 21, 2026 by The Guardian (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2026)

    Scientists warn that AI-generated and AI-enhanced wildlife images could contaminate citizen-science databases, distort species records, and undermine conservation research.

  • seal

    U.S. war on Iran costs balloon past official estimates, top $100 bln

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 15, 2026 by Agencies + Al Mayadeen English (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2026)

    Internal Pentagon estimates put the real cost of the US war on Iran at $80-100 billion, far above the official $30 billion figure, as Washington’s original “weeks-long” timeline collapses into months with no clear exit.

  • Palestine

    850,000 ‘targets’: Experts alarmed by scale of Israeli AI targeting

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 6, 2026 by The Guardian (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2026)

    An Elbit Systems presentation reveals the Israeli AI targeting system identified 850,000 potential targets during the Gaza and Lebanon wars, raising legal and humanitarian concerns.

  • White Helmets in Venezuela as rescuers, raising concerns over forgiegn influence and political intervention. (Mahdi Rteil)

    The White Helmets invade Venezuela

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 4, 2026 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    White Helmets’ deployment to Venezuela is portrayed as a humanitarian mission that also advances Western influence through parallel state-building and regime change.

  • anti-American mural, Iran.

    Iran secured last-minute concessions over Hormuz, Lebanon MoU clauses

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on June 15, 2026 by Al Mayadeen Staff (Tasnim) (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2026)

    Tasnim reports that last-minute changes happened in the Iran–U.S. memorandum talks, including Hormuz navigation terms, the Lebanon clause, fee exemptions, and phased reopening timeline.

  • Masaken al-Shaabiya in Tyre

    June 9: Israeli attacks on Tyre kill 9, injure dozens of others

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on June 9, 2026 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    “Israel’s” ceaseless attacks have resulted in the martyrdom of nine civilians in Tyre and more injuries, including civil defense personnel.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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