‘FDR’s 1943 proclamation that America would defend Saudi Arabia would be reaffirmed by every American president, most prominently in the 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine and the 1980 Carter Doctrine. In 1944, the United States sent its first military mission to Saudi Arabia, and in 1945 the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a military cooperation agreement… Read More 9/11: The Saudi Connection – BBC World Service Documentaries
Katrin Bennhold Good morning, world. Israel’s role as a safe haven for Jewish people after the Holocaust is central to its identity and values as a modern, democratic state. And so it was striking to read, in a recent story by my colleague Azam Ahmed, multiple prominent Israelis, including former military and intelligence officials, using World War… Read More The retired generals sounding the alarm over the West Bank
Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without thismigration” during a conference… Read More Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’
NB: The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,382 Palestinians killed and 174,236 injured since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources. … They added that the total number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025 has reached 1,255, while the number of injuries has… Read More Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes
Date: August 3, 2026 Author: aplutsoc “Write my name on my leg, Mama” On Friday, July 24, settlers carried out a violent raid on Palestinian homes in Tal, near Nablus. Four Palestinians were killed, and two Israeli settlers also died in retaliatory clashes. A week earlier, settlers had set fire to a house in Tal with residents inside.… Read More Israel: Protest against settler terror. By Ira Berkovic
We have just learned of the passing on August 9th of Mariéme Helie-Lucas, an Algerian sociologist and feminist activist committed to secularism for decades. Mariéme was certainly better known in the English-speaking world than in the French-speaking world. As a tribute, we are reproducing the post written by her friend Harsh Kapoor. My former partner,… Read More Marième / Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas (1939-2026)
The journalistic value is clear: The boy revealed Feiglin’s true face. And more importantly, he revealed the despicable lie of “voluntary emigration.” No one is leaving voluntarily. It’s just putting them on trucks and shipping them out Gideon Levy There hasn’t been an interview like this in years, perhaps never, on Israeli television. A ray… Read More How a Teen, Not a Journalist, Debunked Israel’s Gaza ‘Voluntary Emigration’ Plan
Edward Luce “Tweets don’t overturn signed agreements,” said a Saudi official last week. Amid America’s broiling ocean of surrealism, being instructed by a dynastic autocracy on the sanctity of the contract stands out. Donald Trump had claimed to amend a US-Saudi nuclear deal on his Truth Social site the day after it was signed. That… Read More Trump’s waning sway over the world
As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire Simon Tisdall Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is pummelling the… Read More Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction
NB: An excellent commentary; except for one misnomer: when it comes to Western imperial establishments and their hangers-on, it’s not their moral stupidity, but their moral depravity that we are confronted with. The truth is as clear as crystal: they are irredeemably racist, as racist as the Nazi jurists who concocted the phrase ‘life not… Read More Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity
After the truth-shower 