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Archives for February 2026

Iran
“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

Juan Cole

Like cascading waters, or a desert squall another day of my life has fled.

Israel/ Palestine
UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

Middle East Monitor

Keir Starmer’s government suffered a resounding blow from the UK Supreme Court, which struck down the ban on the activist group Pal Action

Climate Crisis
Serious Court Challenges May Reverse the Trump EPA’s Revocation of 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding

Serious Court Challenges May Reverse the Trump EPA’s Revocation of 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding

The Conversation

The court found that various greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, were “pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act.

Donald Trump
Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

Mitchell Zimmerman

White people are not being “replaced” by invading non-whites, who have been here all along–because the U.S. incorporated them as we expanded

Israel/ Palestine
The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

Ramzy Baroud

With the genocide in Gaza, Israeli rhetoric fully reflects a state of exception where the law is not just ignored, but structurally suspended.

Donald Trump
MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

John Feffer

Donald Trump considers international law nothing more than a trifling impediment by which the weak try to drag down the strong.

Featured
The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

Fariba Amini

People were gunned down in a systematic way during these protests on a scale unseen since the 1980s

Israel/ Palestine
The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

Middle East Monitor

Expanding settlements, making plans to cut the Palestinians into separated areas, such as separating the north of the West Bank from the south

Climate Crisis
How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

Yale Climate Connections

China exported over $200 billion in clean energy technologies to other countries in 2025, increasing their adoption around the world

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