"We're going to take over the Gaza Strip... and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East." [1] With those words at a White House press briefing on February 4, 2025, President Donald Trump reframed Gaza not as a…

The heads of Lebanon and Syria have aligned themselves with the world’s biggest sponsor of Zionism, trading their countries’ sovereignty for a form of diplomatic coercion. Jolani’s Syria, with President Joseph Aoun and PM Nawaf Salam’s Lebanon, have subscribed to…

Last month, a bombshell report from the Lancet Global Health journal revealed a staggering statistic: economic sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union are linked to over 38 million deaths globally since 1971, with more than half a…

European powers have officially activated the snapback mechanism on Iran, after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to vote on the continuation of sanctions relief as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action (JCPOA).  Only Russia, China, Algeria,…

Under the guise of national security and immigration control, the United States has long used detention and deportation not just as tools of border enforcement, but as instruments of political coercion.  In recent years, this strategy has expanded to include…

On September 3, 2025, Beijing commemorated the 80th anniversary of victory against Imperial Japan in World War II. Several foreign leaders from the Global South attended the military parade in Tiananmen Square hosted by President Xi Jinping. Revealing new and…