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On 1 September, a group of US senators wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressing the lack of democratic guarantees for the coming (...)

Trespassing. James Louis Durand, 63, of Laguna Beach was arrested on suspicion of trespassing and refusing to leave the property. He was held on a $500 bail. 

An Iraqi native who now works as a professional peace builder reflects on life under Saddam Hussein and the devastating economic sanctions on the 1990s.

Sanctions aim to hit a space where the enemy-state is weakened but the people of the nation remain unscathed. No such space exists.

"No, no, your voice is not shameful, your voice is a revolution!” Thousands of Iraqi women shouted these words in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square in October 2019. The unprecedented scale of women’s participation helped turn what could have been just another wave of popular protests, which had grown more common over the past decade, into an uprising. Thawra Tishreen (the October Revolution) saw ordinary people demonstrating against the political class and the system that had been put in place ...

The Biden Administration has agreed to release $3.5 billion in frozen funds, but will they reach a desperate population?

By Kay Lawler SOUNDS and scents of summer: sizzling burgers and sausages on the barbecue, the happy laughter of children, the buzz of friendly conversations and…

Pain and hope fill hearts of Israeli coexistence activists Pain and hope fill hearts of Israeli coexistence activists Against the backdrop of conflict between Israel’s Jewish and Arab population, leaders of coexistence groups explain why they are not going to give up. May 16, 2021, 11:00 am Arabs and Jews protest the escalating violence and riots between the Arab and Jewish population, in Jaffa, on May 14, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Save this story for later. On January 31st, generals in Myanmar seized power, after their political allies lost an election in a landslide to the National League for Democracy, the party of Aung San Suu Kyi. She was detained, along with other party leaders, and remains under house arrest. Since then, Suu Kyi’s supporters have poured into the streets to demand the restoration of democracy, and civil servants and workers across the country have walked off their jobs. “If we stop going t...

Peter Beinart: The United States doesn’t just bomb its enemies. It chokes them. Our ‘secondary sanctions’ look to starve other nations into submission (Chris Gash | The New York Times) America’s Other Forever War By Peter Beinart | For The New York Times   | Feb. 16, 2021, 3:00 p.m. “It is past time,” Joe Biden pledged last year, “to end the forever wars.” He’s right. But his definition of war is too narrow. For decades, the United States ha...