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Archives for January 2026

Dissent
Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Mohammad Eslami

Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Ramzy Baroud

Netanyahu continues to gamble on the possibility that international and regional opinion may eventually become receptive to ethnic cleansing

Germany
Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Clean Energy Wire

Average CO2 emissions of new cars fell by almost 12 percent, to an average of 105.8 grammes per kilometre

Colonialism
Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole

They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War

nuclear weapons
An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Michael T. Klare

Russian and American leaders will face no barriers to the expansion of those thermonuclear arsenals

Climate Crisis
Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

The Conversation

the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth, further increasing the already substantial economic and personal risk

Featured
Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Juan Cole

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

Donald Trump
The Power Play President

The Power Play President

John Feffer

For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control

Iran
Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

The Conversation

The unrest poses the most serious challenge to Iran’s political establishment since 2022

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