18+ hour, 55+ min ago   (1614+ words) Human Rights Watch 09/14/2026 Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities are unlawfully executing protesters and political dissidents on a weekly basis, a relentless attack on the right to life, Human Rights Watch and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1047+ words) By Steven Paton, Smithsonian Institution El Niño is here, and forecasters warn that it’s likely to be bigger and stronger in 2026-27 than any El Niño event recorded in at least 150 years. Those effects are already showing up in Central and…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (335+ words) Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (860+ words) By Bamo Nouri, City St George’s, University of London and Inderjeet Parmar, City St George’s, University of London Tehran has also announced it is preparing to sign an agreement with Oman which would establish a new corridor through the Strait…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (334+ words) ( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Amman | – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the recent escalation in Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon, which have injured at least four journalists, including three on Sunday, underscoring the fragility of the ceasefires…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (411+ words) Ironically, the Mercator maps probably misled Trump, who is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, into thinking that Greenland is significant enough to go to war with Europe over. As a historian of the Global South, I have long…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (298+ words) The US Central Command released video of the strikes: CENTCOM Destroys 3 IRGC Oil Tankers After Iran Targets 2 U.S. Navy Warships The US sinking of an unarmed Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman appears to be a war crime. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (816+ words) ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove, California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (930+ words) By Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University (The Conversation) – President Donald Trump has entangled the United States in a war of choice with Iran that he cannot easily win or quit. The war was…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (320+ words) Still, none of that was broadcast publicly to the entire world. It simply came out later. Donald Trump, however, represents a first when it comes to so many things and that includes a recent violent form of presidential cursing in…...