Is a new civil war in the U.S. possible?

September 12, 2025
Raphael Machado

There may be few other options for Trump than to concentrate more power and implement exceptional measures to guarantee law and order.

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

September11, 2025
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
(The Conversation) – The Israeli airstrike targeting senior Hamas political leaders in Qatar on Sept. 9, 2025, represents the crossing of a number of lines.

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

September 11, 2025
Juan Cole

Quatrain no. 12 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the imperative to live in the moment and take our pleasures where we can, disregarding visions of future power or the afterlife, which we may never achieve.
XII.

Islamic garden at the palace complex in Granada meant to evoke the Qur’an’s image of paradise. 2010. © Juan Cole.

‘We’ll get them next time’: Israel hints at more attacks on Hamas leaders in Qatar

September 10, 2025
US President Donald Trump said he assured Qatar that such an attack would not happen again, coinciding with reports that Washington knew about and even approved the strike

سیاست نو

بسیار جالب است که بدانیم که آنچه که هم اکنون در حیطهٔ سیاسی در آمریکا اتفاق می‌اُفتد از قبل پیش‌بینی‌ شده بود. کسانی‌ که به تئوری‌های اقتصادی و اقتصاد سیاسی علاقه‌مندند، با مطالعهٔ  آنچه که تاثیرگزارترین رئیس جمهور آمریکا در طی دوازده سال حکومتش، بین سالهای هزار و نهصد و سی‌ و سه، و هزار و نهصد و چهل و پنج، برای این کشور انجام داد، و مقایسهٔ آن با پیش‌بینی‌های اقتصاد سیاسی توسط دانشمندان در این رشته، می‌توانند به راحتی‌ این پدیده را درک کنند.ا

‘It’s terror’: Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza bombed

September 9, 2025
Julia Conley

“Our peaceful mission to break the siege on Gaza and stand in solidarity with its people continues with determination and resolve,” said members of the flotilla’s steering committee.

Tunisian protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans and wave Palestinian flags at the Port of Sidi Bou Said near Tunis on September 9, 2025, after the organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestinian activists said late on September 8 that one of their boats was hit by a suspected UAV but Tunisian authorities said "no drones" had been detected. Photo by YASSINE MAHJOUB/AFP via Getty Images

Trump and Silicon Valley’s plan to rule the world with AI weapons

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Report from Gaza: Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers

September 8, 2025
“There’s no real safe zone in Gaza [City] and all of the Gaza Strip,” says Eyad Amawi, who joins us for an update from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces move deeper into Gaza City to forcibly evict 1 million residents. The local aid coordinator describes relentless bombardment, water shortages, infectious diseases and worsening famine. “All of these things must end now. As a human being, the most priority is the life of the civilians here.”

LIVE BLOG: Ansarallah’s Drones Hit Ramon Airport as Israel Expands Gaza City Operations – Day 702

September 7, 2025

DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad

September6, 2025
Yasemin Yam

We could see a worldwide normalization of AI technology for surveillance and propaganda purposes

West Asia is Lurching Toward War

September 5, 2025

Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.

Tehran in April 2018. (Ninara/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0)

The new Israeli map proposing to annex 80% of the West Bank, explained

September 4, 2025
Qassam Muaddi

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He's not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the "pragmatic" opposition.

sraeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees

September 4, 2025
Yuval Abraham

A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians, a joint investigation finds.

Notes from the Editors

September1, 2025

September 2025 (Volume 77, Number 4)

فراز و افول امپراتوری‌ها

طاق کسری 

US Navy 'First Among Equals': The case for a new realist internationalism

September 2, 2025
Daniel Larison

Emma Ashford's new book challenges America’s global overreach and offers an alternative for a new multipolar world

American Citizens on the Frontlines of Gaza’s War Crimes

September 1, 2025
Jamal Kanj
Serving in the military is the ultimate test of loyalty. When young Americans raise their right hand, they pledge to defend their nation, their Constitution, their people. Yet for many young Americans, that oath is NOT made to the United States military. Instead, they pack their bags, fly across the Atlantic, and enlist in a foreign army—the Israeli War Machine, aka, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

60% of US Gen Z Back Hamas Over Israel in Gaza War – New Poll

8/31/2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
63,459	160,256	9,000

A pro-Palestine protest in Seattle. (Photo: via @GuyOron W page)

A new Harris Poll shows 60% of US Gen Z support Hamas over Israel, highlighting a generational divide as Gaza’s death toll nears 63,400 amid the ongoing genocide.

FEMA Employees Speak Out After Attacks on Workers Warning of Looming Disaster

8/30/2025
Sasha Abramsky

“The danger posed to our collective communities … is very real,” said one employee who signed a public letter.

Where’s a Moral Panic When You Need One?

8/29/2025
Jeb Lund

Sold as The Answer to Everything, AI has become a factory of custom manias, faux-companionship and typo-free teenage suicide notes.