Informed Comment

The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

What Iranian commanders have constructed in and around the Strait of Hormuz is not a conventional defense.

In early February, the barbarians reached my gate. There could be no more comfort or denial here on this island where I live.

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

Despite the damage it has sustained in recent conflicts with the US and Israel, Iran maintains formidable capabilities

The Los Angeles Public Library invited authors Janan Matari and Nora Lester Murad to an event on their books as part of Read Palestine Week

Settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, governed by a persistent logic of elimination aimed at securing land

The most conspicuous example is the ongoing mass-carnage in, and of, Gaza, carried out by Israel, yet fully enabled by the US and Europe

What they found instead of their loved ones were customized ace of spades playing cards that read “ICE Denver Field Office”

former Israeli PM Ehud Barak is being held to account, only because the ruling Likud Party perceives him as an enemy of their agenda