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Sara Larijani During the 2026 US–Israeli war on Iran, something extraordinary happened on the digital front. Iranian youth—long targeted by imperial cognitive warfare—launched campaigns on X and Instagram that pierced Western audiences with pro-resistance messaging. The result was a success, opening
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Taha Zeinali The Question the Empire Cannot Answer As of late May 2026, the ceasefire holds only provisionally, and the gap between Washington and Tehran has proven too wide to bridge through the exchange of proposals. The US plan demands that Iran halt all uranium enrichment, dismantle its enrichm
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Dr. Zahir Kolia In the standard Western history curriculum, 1492 marks the beginning of modernity. It is the year Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the Americas and inadvertently inaugurated an era of global trade and exploration. But if we shift our gaze from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, 149
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This article was republished from Capital & Empire. We encourage you to subscribe to their substack. A secret CIA assessment found Washington’s Gulf allies are split over how far to back the U.S. militarily in the Strait of Hormuz. A classified CIA analysis circulating this week found that Washingto
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A report back from the International Anti-Imperialist Conference in Lahore, Pakistan Pawel Wargan Why do the people of Tehran take to the streets in their millions under bombardment to defy their attackers? Why do the people of Gaza City refuse to surrender in the face of genocide? Why do the people
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Sham Murad As a born and bred Baghdadi, the American occupation of Iraq is something that I think about every single day. The sheer magnitude of suffering that followed the war not only haunts me but catapulted me into radical politics. For Iraqis, the invasion is not an abstract geopolitical event
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Aymun Moosavi The Israeli Occupation has once again sharpened its focus on Lebanon to realise its vision of territorial expansion. In turning a colonial mirror toward Lebanon, it seeks to replicate the same parameters of control long imposed on Palestine. This time, however, the mirror is not just e
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Behind the Dominican Republic’s assault on Haitian water sovereignty stands an Israeli Occupation apparatus – arming border forces, training police, and designing a thirty-year plan to control the island’s water supply. Joshua Reaves Charmelus Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem For years, Haiti’s border wi
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Shabbir Rizvi World War I was a bloodbath for the working and oppressed people of the world. In an imperialist war, more than 60 million soldiers were sent into war at the behest of the capitalists of their nations, in a conquest to ultimately secure new markets and resources for each country’s ruli
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Samer Hassan The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s left the United States as the undisputed global hegemon, positioned to shape the world on its terms. With the “evil empire” gone, as Ronald Reagan labeled it, the US now needed a new justification for maintaining a vast military presence
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Shambhavi Siddhi In the days following the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, a familiar pattern reemerged on Indian segments of Twitter and Instagram. As the international community grappled with the escalating turmoil in West Asia, a specific group of Indian feminists, influencers, and sel
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Shabbir Rizvi “Quds Day is a universal day. It is not an exclusive day for Quds itself. It is a day for the oppressed to rise and stand up against the arrogant.” – Ayatollah Khomeini. The last Friday of Ramadan marks “Quds Day” — a day declared by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 to be a […]