Residents waking to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger Israeli forces have been moving an agreed truce line in Gaza westwards over the six months since the ceasefire, expanding their zone of control and making the state of limbo… Read More Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control
Netanyahu does not often use the word ‘honesty’ in his statements. On Friday, he used it twice when announcing the halting of the Lebanon campaign against Hezbollah, confessing that the group remains standing – and that the threat along Israel’s northern border remains Jonathan Lis Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Friday that he had… Read More Between the Lines, Netanyahu Admitted That He Has Failed in Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV has positioned himself as the most political pope in many years. The consequences are being felt in Israel and the territories as well Nettanel Slyomovics Last Sunday, exactly one week after Easter, the U.S. president took to social media to launch an attack on the pope. Donald Trump declared that Leo XIV… Read More After Clash With Trump, Pope Leo Sets New Goal: To Stop Settler Violence
NB: Our RSS/BJP rulers, who trumpet their greatness to the whole world, who have given us a VishwaGuru leader; do not want us to hear the last voice of a six year old Palestinian girl, pleading for help, murdered by a genocidal regime to which they have now come to owe allegiance. By so doing,… Read More Filmmakers, Activists, Israelis, Indians Condemn ‘Unlawful’ Ban on ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Every violation of international law invites the next. From Afghanistan to Iran, and across Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza and Venezuela, the line between what is permitted and what is prohibited has been steadily blurred by the complicit inaction of the UN security council. Wielding the veto as both a… Read More The security council has allowed unchecked power and brutality. To protect peace, we must reform the UN
Mukul Kesavan NB: The irredeemable racism of the Anglo-American establishment is on full display in the observations of the Chief Editor of The Economist. They remind me of the phrase “life unworthy of life” (Lebensunwertes Leben), the Nazi designation for those human beings who, according to Hitler and Co., had no right to live. Well… Read More Grotesque priorities
You can own the roof, but the guy in the basement has the shotgun, and the house is made of solid rock. by Mark A. Shryock – Copyright © Mark A. Shryock The history of modern warfare is defined by a persistent, expensive, and often fatal misunderstanding: the belief that controlling the sky is equivalent… Read More Vietnam, Afghanistan and the 2026 Iran meat grinder: Why owning the sky is a death trap – and how this war will end an Empire
The recent bulldozing of the Gaza War Cemetery has disturbed the final resting place of thousands of soldiers, including those from the British Indian Army. While Australia has expressed outrage, the silence from Southasian governments raises urgent questions about how we value our shared historical memory. By Inderjeet Parmar / Sapan News The Gaza War Cemetery in al-Tuffah,… Read More Desecrating history: Southasia’s silence as Gaza war graves are bulldozed
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity By Kevin T Baker On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the… Read More AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
Mehmet Rakipoglu Exeter, UK (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Debates about Palestine in the Western academia often portray contemporary Israeli policies as exceptional responses to security ‘threats’ or regional instability. Yet a longer historical perspective suggests a deeper structural continuity: the persistence of colonial logic under evolving institutional and discursive forms. From the British… Read More Israel’s Enduring Colonial Project in Palestine
After the truth-shower 