Notes from the Editors

September1, 2025

September 2025 (Volume 77, Number 4)

فراز و افول امپراتوری‌ها

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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.

Israel’s war on Gaza kills over 63,000 Palestinians, starves 322

August 29, 2025
Usaid Siddiqui, Tim Hume, Jillian Kestler-D'Amours and Nils Adler

Displaced Palestinians fleeing the northern Gaza Strip move with their belongings on a street in Gaza City, Thursday, August 28, 2025

Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel: Poll

August 28, 2025
Stephen Prager

"Democratic politicians who continue to support sending weapons to Israel are acting in direct defiance of their own constituents' wishes," said one progressive commentator.

Israeli Forces Kill 75 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours

August 26, 2025
Dave DeCamp

Gaza hospitals recorded another three starvation-related deaths due to the Israeli siege

* یهود و صهیونیزم

آنچه که نشریات در مورد اسرائیل و فلسطین تبلیغ می‌کنند ایجاد یک مغالطه بین این دو عنوان و گسترش این تصور است که یهودیّت و صهیونیزم در اصل یکی‌ می‌باشند، در حالیکه تفاوت بین آنها بسیار است. بخش بسیار کوتاهی‌ از تعریف ویکیپدیا از آنچه که آنرا یهودیت می‌نامد چنین است:ا

Australia Blames Iran for Synagogue Attack

August 26, 2025
Joe Lauria

Based on an Australian intelligence “assessment,” the Australian government on Tuesday expelled Iran’s ambassador and three other embassy officials for allegedly planning an attack on a Melbourne synagogue last December.

Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital

August 25, 2025

Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz among 19 killed after Israeli forces bomb Khan Younis hospital providing life-saving care to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

A man holds the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri who was killed along with other journalists at the Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on 25 August 2025

LIVE BLOG: Israel to Lay Siege on Gaza City as Scores Killed by Massacres, Famine – Day 688

August 24, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
62,622	157,673	9,000

In a crumbling world, 30 million dream of a state to call their own. Will their dream come true or end in a nightmare?

August 23, 2025
Murad Sadygzade

The Kurds, caught up in the violent restructuring of the Middle East, face an uncertain future

FILE PHOTO: Kurdish refugees near the Turkish-Syrian border in Sanliurfa province

Israel’s Assassination of Memory

August 22, 2025

Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies used to justify the Israeli state.

On the concept of military neutrality and its contradictions: relative neutrality

August 22, 2025
Lorenzo Maria Pacini

At a time when the world is in turmoil, oscillating between peace negotiations and threats of war, there is one issue that needs to be addressed with care: the concept of neutrality.

Iran reacts to nuclear deal threat

August 21, 2025
Tehran has been preparing "for years" to counter the possible reimposition of U.N. sanctions under the existing nuclear deal's "snapback" mechanism, Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday as tensions over stalled nuclear talks threaten to renew conflict between Iran and the West.

Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children

August 21, 2025
( Human Rights Watch ) – In July, major news organizations published the image of 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a Palestinian child so emaciated that his bones protruded through his back, while his mom cradled him in her arms. Instead of a diaper, he wore a black plastic bag.

We Have No Shelter and No Escape as Israel Prepares to Invade Gaza City

August 20, 2025
Dalia Abu Ramadan

We have no real options: stay in the north and suffer, or flee south and suffer all the same.

Where can we escape, when every corner is pervaded by death?

Displaced Palestinians check the damage following an Israeli strike that hit a school-turned shelter in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on July 25, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images