Dissent

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

Dissent

Facing protests and new Threats from Trump, is the Iranian Regime on its last legs?

The Conversation

Protesters have flooded Tehran and many other major cities in recent days, calling for the downfall of the regime

Dissent

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Iranians took to the streets for a fourth day to voice their anger over the state of the reeling economy, with the currency in a free fall

Dissent

Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil Unrest – but Internet Access adds the crucial Spark

The Conversation

The poorest half of humanity, meanwhile, receive just 8% of income and own 2% of wealth

Artificial Intelligence

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

Jasim Al-Azzawi

( Middle East Monitor ) – In 1916, the Middle East was partitioned by its rulers with ink between Britain and France. A hundred years later, with borders drawn by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, territories continue to contend with claims to legitimacy, sovereignty, and foreign intervention. The Middle East holds a reset, but not in a […]

Authoritarianism

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Follow a line south and west from the Gaza strip, continue through Egypt, and you’ll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. It’s one we don’t hear much about in the United States, probably because it’s happening in an African nation, one of those places Donald Trump […]

censorship

Labeling dissent as Terrorism: Trump’s NSPM-7 raises Constitutional Alarms

The Conversation

By Melinda Haas, University of Pittsburgh (The Conversation) – A largely overlooked directive issued by the Trump administration marks a major shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy, one that threatens bedrock free speech rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-7, issued on Sept. 25, 2025, is a presidential directive that for the […]

Arab Spring

Great Powers and the People: The Divergent Paths of the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions

Mehmet Rakipoglu

Exeter, UK (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Arab revolutionary wave that began in 2011 presents two of its most significant, yet fundamentally divergent, case studies: Egypt and Syria. While both nations experienced the overthrow of long-standing authoritarian regimes, the mechanisms, actors, and ultimate outcomes of their revolutions differed significantly. A comparative analysis reveals […]

Arms Sales

A 40-year Fight against Cluster Bombs offers Lessons to stop the US-Israel Weapons Pipeline

Waging Nonviolence

The Honeywell Project in Minneapolis showed how to beat a weapons maker: obstruct operations, recruit workers as allies, build camaraderie and persist no matter what. Joseph Mogul ( Waging Nonviolence ) – After more than two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, popular outrage has mounted against the weapons manufacturers enabling the slaughter. The antiwar […]