October 9, 1978. Protestors demonstrate against the Shah in Tehran, Iran. The American journalist Chris Hedges once warned that imperialistic policies in the Muslim world…
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The Strait of Hormuz, a mere 20-mile-wide waterway in the Persian Gulf, has been at the forefront of Iran’s geopolitical leverage in the Middle East…
According to the United Nations, over 200 million people around the world desperately need humanitarian aid. Across the globe—from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of…
Decades of established American policy have been upended in the four months since Donald Trump returned to the White House. An axe-swinging Elon Musk has…
In Led Zeppelin’s epic “Kashmir,” the lyrics evoke a dreamlike image of sunlit landscapes and distant horizons. The real Kashmir, however, is far removed from…
From the scorching sand dunes of the Sahara Desert to the vibrant cultural centers of Cape Town and Johannesburg and the lush highlands of the…
“Whose land is it?” This question lies at the heart of the Palestinian nationalist struggle. It’s a question tangled in the collapse of empires, the…
After a June 2024 campaign rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump took to social media to announce his signature defense initiative: to “PREVENT WORLD WORLD III”…
In his well-known essay “The End of History?”, economist Francis Fukuyama wrote: “it matters very little to us what strange thoughts occur to the people…