History Today: Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

By Akil Awan. How the Sykes-Picot agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for Western treachery, greed and colonial machinations. One of the most striking observations, when comparing a map of Europe with one of the Middle East or North Africa, is how different they are. The borders of most European nation states are wonderfully convoluted, following

Al Mayadeen: Global Community and Shared Future

By Bouthaina Shaaban. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe was a strong, timely, and wise statement amid the current world and regional chaos, a statement in favor of all of the people in the world who are looking for an alternative order in a global community, which at the moment stands orderless. The entire

Consortium News: History of US Activism for Palestine

By As`ad AbuKhalil. While their  ultimate impact should not be exaggerated, the protests for Palestine taking place on U.S. college campuses are historic. There is a long history of muted protests for Palestine on college campuses.  Imagine, Palestine never drew the attention of the American left in the 1960s and 1970s.  Few Americans knew the

The Jordan Times: Israel wants to destroy Gaza, annex the West Bank: But what does Gaza want?

By Ramzy Baroud. What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using “neutral” language in depicting the crisis in Palestine are harming the Palestinian people beyond their seemingly innocuous words. This morally non-committal, middle-ground

Russia Today: Why Israel is the one thing you can’t protest against in Western universities

By Rachel Marsden. The crackdown on pro-Palestine campus protests might just make college kids hate the establishment again The American university crowd didn’t seem to mind too much when the state was ushering in authoritarian green policies under the dodgy pretext of reducing the temperature of the planet. Or when campuses were banning right-wing speakers.

RIAC: The World in 2035: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

By Zhao Huasheng & Andrey Kortunov. The first quarter of the century is elapsing. With every passing year it becomes less and less appropriate to argue that we still live in the very beginning of the new millennium. Very soon the humankind will enter the second quarter of the XXI century. It’s high time to

Rai al-Youm: Netanyahu’s anguish

By Abdel Bari Atwan. The US student protests against Israel’s genocide herald major change I have never seen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look so anguished as in the video he posted on ‘X’ on Thursday, in which he condemned the student protests in US universities, branded them anti-Semitic, likened them to 1930s Germany, and

Russia Today: The Middle East crisis has made one thing clear about the US

By Bradley Blankenship. The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that “all men are

Consortium News: Iran’s Strategic Patience Is Spent

By As’ad AbuKhalil. Direct retaliatory strikes mark a new phase of the Islamic Republic’s conflict with Israel. By all accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t U.S. ‘shock and awe’ but it was massive, sophisticated and dazzlingly theatrical. It is too early to assess the damage caused by its combination of missiles

Asharq Al-Awsat: Questions Regarding the Cultural Themes of War

By Hazem Saghieh. Last Sunday (7/4) the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” published an investigative report by Judy Maltz, the newspaper’s Jewish World correspondent, entitled “Six Months On: How October 7 and the Gaza War Transformed Jews Across the Globe.” It traces how these two major events have reflected on the lives of Jewish individuals: 7 in