"Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon."
After Israel carried out assassinations in Lebanon and Iran, the prospect of war looms over the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu's eye-rolling video, in which he accused the Americans of holding up an arms shipment and yet again evoked Winston Churchill, is him playing politics – it's the only thing he knows how to do.
More censorship, more surveillance, more media resistance
Israel’s insistence on “destroying Hamas” by causing mass civilian casualties and dispossession in Gaza is rooted in this longer-held desire to make “the Palestinian question” disappear.
X marks the despot, hackivists fight the power, and more hot flashes from media land
The worldwide fight for abortion rights, Die Linke party congress, and a power shift in... Grenada!
Good news, bad news as elections reconfigure world politics
A time for serious analysis, examination and history making
A biography of protean intellectual Edward Said situates the advocate for Palestinian statehood as a deep political thinker and skeptic of identity politics would both excoriate the crimes of Israel and the US and denounce Arab despotism.
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