Istanbul Mayor’s Arrest Sparks Türkiye’s Largest Protests in over a Decade

March 25, 2025
Volkan Isbasaran
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment) – Major protests over the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, have entered their sixth day. Demonstrations have erupted in at least 55 out of Türkiye’s 81 provinces, according to AFP, which marks one of the most widespread waves of anti-government protests in recent years.

Global Capitalism: The Old Cold War Fades, A New One Expands

Noam Chomsky on The Collapse of American Empire with Matt Kennard

The last chapter of the genocide

March 24, 2025
Chris Hedges
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return.

Popular Fury Grows in Turkey Against Tyrannical Erdoğan Emboldened by Trump

March 24, 2025
Jon Queally
The imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the far-right president's top political rival, has unleashed a new wave of protests against increasingly autocratic rule.

 

A protester wearing a gas mask and dressed as a Whirling Dervish is pepper sprayed by police during clashes with police in front of Istanbul's famous Aquaduct on March 23, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a primary election today, was jailed on corruption charges following his detention earlier this week. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Trump and Putin begin addressing cumulated geo-strategic debris… amidst Trump’s ultimatum to Iran

March 24, 2025
Alastair Crooke
Does Trump see Iran through some disturbed optic – that in destroying Iran, he is bringing about peace through strength?

LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

March 23, 2025

• Israel carried out more massacres in Gaza, killing at least 30 people, including women and children, in heavy strikes on Khan Yunis and Rafah.
• Meanwhile, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opened with sharp declines, reflecting the impact of the country’s deepening political and constitutional crisis.
• Since the resumption of violence in Gaza on Tuesday morning through Saturday, Israel has killed 650 Palestinians and injured 1,172 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it?

March 22, 2025
Emina Hodžić
Watching Western governments cover up Israeli crimes has been exhausting. But I refuse to surrender and accept injustice. 

 

 Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by charitable organisations at al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 21, 2025 [Hani Alshaer/Anadolu Agency]

Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism

March 22, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.

 

 A child wears a "Make America Healthy Again" hat during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on February 21, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images

Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’ organization PEN America?

March 22, 2025
Kori Davis
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.

 

 A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/ PEN America)

Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror

March 21, 2025
Henry Giroux
Introduction
The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is met not with debate but with brute force, and the machinery of state terror moves with ruthless precision. In his own words, Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, an activist for Palestinian freedom, and a permanent U.S. resident, was seized by ICE agents without warning—handcuffed, dragged from his apartment lobby, shoved into an unmarked black car, and disappeared. In minutes, his rights were violated and his body made vulnerable and disposable. Khalil instantly became another casualty in the Trump administration’s escalating war against those who refuse to kneel before its politics of white supremacy, settler-colonial violence, ominous threats, and unchecked lawlessness. His disappearance is both a precedent and a warning—a stark reminder that in regimes built on repression, silence is coerced, and resistance is a crime.

How a war with Iran (for Israel) could crash the US economy

March 21, 2025
Shivan Mahendrarajah
As Trump eyes war with Iran to bolster his legacy and appease his pro-Israel backers, Tehran’s likely retaliation could crash global markets, spike oil prices, and bring economic pain directly to the American public – turning support for apocalyptic politics into a crisis at the checkout line.

Scenes from a Ramadan massacre

March 20, 2025
Ahmed Ahmed
Palestinians in Gaza City describe collecting body parts from the street and fending off stray dogs as they awaited ambulances amid Israel's attacks.

 

 Oday Al-Zaigh looks out of his front door at the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes, Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

Teachers Say 'See You In Court' as Trump Tries to Abolish Department of Education

March 20, 2025
Brett Wilkins
"We won't be silent as anti-public education politicians try to steal opportunities from our students, our families, and our communities to pay for tax cuts for billionaires," said the head of the nation's largest labor union.

Demonstrators gather outside of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2025 to protest mass layoffs and budget cuts at the agency, initiated by the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency. (Photo: Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – from the West down to the East

March 19, 2025
Pepe Escobar
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers.

Israel’s Renewed Gaza Genocide on Black Tuesday: 420 Dead (175 Children) and 540 Wounded

March 19, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli airstrikes shattered the supposed ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday, dropping heaving munitions on inhabited apartment buildings and killing entire extended families who lived in them, with a death toll of at least 420, and over 500 wounded. Many bodies were still under the rubble and uncounted.

How U.S. plans to bleed Europe dry while waging war on China

March 19, 2025
Sharon Black
The theatrical events of the previous week between Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have been grist for all manner of bourgeois media lies designed to obfuscate events. 

Trump’s threats reignite talk of nuclear bombs in Iran

March 19, 2025
Maziar Motamedi
Trump is still met with defiance from the leadership in Tehran as he threatens military strikes against Iran.

Astronauts return to Earth after months stranded in orbit

March 19, 2025

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spent nine months in space instead of eight days, as was originally planned

سیاست‌های غرب در ایران

سیاست‌های کشور‌های غربی در ایران از قرن سیزدهم آغاز شد، این زمانی‌ بود‌ که ادوارد اول پادشاه انگلستان سفیری به نام جفری لنگلی به ایران، برای برقراری مناسبات سیاسی‌ فرستاد. در آن زمان ایلخانیان بر ایران حکومت می‌کردند و کشور ایران را با نام پارس می‌شناختند. البته در این دوران، یعنی‌ قرن سیزدهم، کشور‌های غربی قدرت و پیشرفت امروز را نداشتند، و دیدار این شخص از ایران بیشتر به منظور مشاهده و ثبت پیشرفت‌های ایران بود. دست درازی غرب به کشور‌های خاور‌میانه پس از کشف نفت آغاز شد. نفت در قرن بیستم به منبع انرژی ترجیحی در سطح جهانی تبدیل شد، و گرچه این ماده قبل از قرن بیستم کشف شده بود، ولی‌ ارزش جهانی‌ آن در این قرن مشخص شد.ا