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Books and articles on Palestine, Zionism and the genocide in Gaza, and on the wars and the empire that pay for it. Read them, and pass them on.
Zionism: the history
How the state was built and what it was built on. Start with the first book if you read only one.
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2020
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Rashid Khalidi · Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt / Macmillan)
A history of Palestine from the Balfour Declaration to 2017, organized around six turning points that Khalidi treats as successive declarations of war on the Palestinians by Zionism and its great-power backers. It draws on the archives and personal recollections of the author's own family alongside the wider historical record.
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1979
The Question of Palestine
Edward W. Said · Times Books (1979); Vintage Books (1992 edition)
Said sets out the Palestinian experience for a Western readership, arguing that Zionism succeeded in Western eyes partly by rendering the Palestinians invisible, and examining how they came to be dispossessed. The 1992 Vintage edition adds a new introduction and epilogue on the first intifada, the Gulf War and the Madrid talks.
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2006
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé · Oneworld Publications
Pappé argues from Israeli archival sources that the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1947–49 was a planned campaign of ethnic cleansing rather than a by-product of war, focusing on the Zionist leadership's decision-making and Plan Dalet. He also examines how the Nakba has been erased from Israeli public memory.
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2014
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
Ilan Pappé · Verso Books
A study of how Zionist ideology is produced and contested outside the state's formal institutions, in Israeli historiography, schools, the press and cinema. Pappé traces the classic Zionist narrative, the 'post-Zionist' challenge of the 1990s, and what he calls the neo-Zionist reaction that followed.
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1992
Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948
Nur Masalha · Institute for Palestine Studies
Using Zionist archives and the private papers of the movement's leaders, Masalha traces the idea of removing Palestine's Arab population to neighboring countries from early Zionist thought through the Jewish Agency's transfer committees of the 1930s and 1940s. He argues that 'transfer' was a recurring strand in mainstream Zionist planning, not an improvisation of 1948.
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1997
A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer and the Palestinians, 1949–96
Nur Masalha · Faber and Faber
A sequel to Masalha's study of pre-1948 'transfer' thinking, this book follows the idea into the policies and politics of the Israeli state after 1948. It covers land confiscation, efforts to reduce the Arab population, and transfer proposals put forward by Israeli officials and parties up to the mid-1990s.
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1989
Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914
Gershon Shafir · Cambridge University Press (1989); University of California Press (updated edition, 1996)
A historical sociology of early Zionist settlement in Ottoman Palestine. Shafir argues that Labor Zionism's strategy of excluding Arab workers and building a separate Jewish economy came from settlers' struggle for land and jobs on the ground, and he places the project within comparative studies of settler colonialism.
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2008
The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
Gabriel Piterberg · Verso Books
An intellectual and literary history of Zionism that reads figures from Herzl and Ben-Gurion to Gershom Scholem and the Israeli historian Anita Shapira against comparative settler-colonial history. Piterberg argues that Zionism's founding myths of 'return' to the land and to history wrote the Palestinians out of the story.
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2017
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
Ilan Pappé · Oneworld Publications
Pappé traces the rule Israel built over the West Bank and Gaza after 1967, from the plans drawn up in the first weeks of occupation, and describes it as a mega-prison with an open-air model and a maximum-security model. Its last chapters show Gaza after 2005 treated as an enemy base rather than a place where people live.
The Gaza genocide
The assault since October 2023, the decades of siege before it, and the governments and institutions that let it continue.
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2018
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Norman G. Finkelstein · University of California Press
A close reading of the human-rights record on Israel's assaults on Gaza from Cast Lead in 2008–09 to Protective Edge in 2014, and of how the investigating bodies softened or abandoned their own findings under pressure. The background to everything since October 2023.
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2025
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
Anne Irfan · Simon & Schuster UK (UK); W. W. Norton & Company (US)
A history of Gaza since 1948 told through six pivotal episodes, from the Nakba refugee influx that created the Strip through Egyptian administration, Israeli occupation, the intifadas, the Oslo period and the rise of Hamas. Irfan, a historian of Palestinian refugees, weaves ordinary Gazans' voices into the political narrative.
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2024
Genocide in Gaza: Israel's Long War on Palestine
Avi Shlaim · Irish Pages Press
A collection of essays and articles, mostly from 2021 to 2024, in which the Oxford historian Avi Shlaim sets Israel's war on Gaza after October 2023 within its long record of occupation, blockade and recurring assaults on the Strip. Shlaim concludes that Israel's conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide.
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2025
Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Didier Fassin; translated by Gregory Elliott · Verso Books (Verso Palestine Pamphlets)
The anthropologist Didier Fassin records the first six months of Israel's war on Gaza and examines how most Western governments accepted, and in many cases aided, the destruction. He argues that their consent amounts to a moral abdication that betrays the values those governments claim to uphold.
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2025
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm · Verso Books (Verso Palestine Pamphlets)
Malm links the colonization of Palestine to the history of fossil-fueled empire, starting with Britain's steam-powered bombardment of Acre in 1840. He argues that Western support for Israel's assault on Gaza is bound up with the same order that drives climate breakdown.
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2025
After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Hamid Dabashi · Haymarket Books
Dabashi, a Columbia University scholar of comparative literature, argues that the genocide in Gaza exposes the moral emptiness of 'Western civilization' and the philosophical tradition that has justified colonial erasure. He calls for intellectual alternatives grounded in the Global South.
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2025
Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide
Yousef M. Aljamal, Norma Hashim, Zoe Jannuzi and Noor Nabulsi, eds.; foreword by Ahmed Alnaouq · Haymarket Books
Firsthand testimonies from 27 Palestinians in Gaza who were forcibly displaced after October 2023, recorded in 2024. The contributors include students, parents, teachers and survivors of the 1948 Nakba. The collection grew out of a partnership between the American Friends Service Committee and the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya.
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2025
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, eds. · Verso Books
An anthology of about twenty pieces by Palestinians, among them poets, doctors, academics, artists and organizers, combining testimony, reportage, poetry and art about the genocide in Gaza. Contributors include Mosab Abu Toha, Susan Abulhawa and Omar Barghouti; royalties go to UNRWA.
Settler colonialism in the Americas
The same project, on this continent: Native nations killed, enslaved and driven from their land, under treaties the United States still does not honor.
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2016
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873
Benjamin Madley · Yale University Press
A history of the killing of California's Native peoples in the decades after the United States took the territory, documenting state-funded militias, vigilante massacres and federal complicity. Madley concludes that it meets the UN definition of genocide.
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2019
Surviving Genocide
Jeffrey Ostler · Yale University Press
A history of US policy toward Native nations east of the Mississippi from the Revolution to the 1850s: the wars, the forced removals and the deaths they caused. Ostler argues that the United States pursued genocide, and tells how Native nations survived it.
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2016
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Argues that the enslavement and forced labor of Native people across North America, from the Spanish conquest onward, was a major cause of the population collapse usually put down to disease alone.
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2014
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Beacon Press
The history of the United States told from Indigenous perspectives, presenting its founding and westward expansion as a settler-colonial project built on dispossession.
Articles: Palestine
Recent reporting and analysis, newest first.
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October 29, 2026
City of Cambridge, MA, Votes to Divest from Businesses Tied to Israel's Military
Democracy Now! (headline)
Cambridge city councillors voted 5–4 on October 28 to divest from businesses profiting from Israel's occupation and its assault on Gaza. Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi, who co-sponsored the measure: if the federal and state governments won't act, "we will". A short news item; a precedent for asking Boulder to do the same.
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October 25, 2026
From Israel Partisan to Advocate for Equal Rights for All People
Rich Forer, interviewed by Giuliano Chianelli · Substack
An interview in which Forer, author of Breakthrough and Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity, describes moving from tribal loyalty to Israel to recognizing the persecution of Palestinians and arguing for equal rights for everyone.
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October 23, 2026
Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power
Ian Lustick · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (YouTube)
A 26-minute video, not an essay. Lustick, co-author of the book of the same name, traces how AIPAC and the wider Israel lobby came to shape US foreign policy, how that strengthened Israel's political right, and how accusations of antisemitism are used to silence critics and threaten free speech and academic freedom.
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October 20, 2026
Despite Zionist attacks, pro-Palestine momentum grows
Yves Engler · yvesengler.com
A Canadian writer tallies recent wins for the Palestine movement in Canada, which he calls the largest sustained internationally focused movement in the country's history: a pro-Israel mayor defeated in Vancouver, Manitoba recognizing anti-Palestinian racism across its government, and Ottawa joining a ban on trade with Israel's illegal settlements.
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October 16, 2026
The Narcissistic Blindness of Israel’s Partisans
Rich Forer · Rich's Substack
A reply to a reader who called his criticism of Israel antisemitic, arguing that Israel's defenders use the charge to avoid the historical record, and that projection and attachment to an idealised self-image keep them from seeing what is done to Palestinians.
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October 12, 2026
Rich Forer on Gaza and Israel's partisans
Rich Forer, interviewed by Brandon Weichert · Mario Nawfal's show, posted on Rich's Substack
A 35-minute video interview, not an essay: the page is a short note carrying the video. Forer, a former AIPAC member who writes on the psychology of Zionist self-justification, is questioned on Gaza and on the people who defend Israeli policy. The post's headline refers to AI surveillance of Gazan classrooms, which the page itself does not explain; the Associated Press reported that story separately and its report is on this page too.
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October 8, 2026
This Saturday the world stands with Palestine
Katherine Hajiyianni · Counterfire
A news report previewing the first globally coordinated day of demonstrations for Palestine, marking three years of the Gaza genocide and organized out of an international antiwar conference held in London in June.
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October 8, 2026
The Zionism Trap
Rich Forer · Substack
An essay arguing that framing Israeli policy as 'Zionism' obscures the role of religious claims drawn from Jewish scripture, and that political ideology and religious belief should be distinguished when analyzing the Israeli government.
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October 8, 2026
A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech
Associated Press, in the Durango Herald
The Gaza Children Village, a US charity running schools it calls Academies of Hope, plans to record classroom conversations and run them through AI to flag speech it considers antisemitic, inciting or hateful, with warnings going to its founder. He describes the curriculum as de-radicalization and says monitoring is the only way to deliver it. The New York nonprofit he named as building the system says it had no part in it, a member of the charity's own board says he was never told, and a Palestinian official says recording classrooms crosses a line. Reported by the Associated Press.
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October 7, 2026
The world since 7 October
Editors · Red Flag
An editorial from the Australian socialist paper arguing that Gaza has become the defining dividing line of Western politics, sharpening generational divides while exposing the limits of liberal politics.
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October 7, 2026
Yes, Zionism is racism
Yara Hawari · Al Jazeera (opinion)
Written after Britain's Green Party voted to call Zionism racism. Hawari argues the vote states a historical fact, not a radical position: Zionism is a settler-colonial project that required dispossessing Palestinians, as its founders said themselves. She cites Jabotinsky, and the 1975 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism, whose 1991 repeal she puts down to geopolitics rather than any change in what Zionism is.
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October 6, 2026
Beyond UN Rhetoric on Gaza
Ramzy Baroud · Consortium News
A commentary contrasting the delegate walkout and protests that greeted Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly with the continued killing of Palestinians, including health workers, in Gaza.
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September 23, 2026
‘Calculated effort to destroy Palestinian life’: Israel blocks 900 wheelchairs for amputee children in Gaza
Nadda O. · The New Arab
More than 900 all-terrain wheelchairs built by Australian charities for wounded and amputee children in Gaza have sat in storage in Jordan since 2025, held back by COGAT, the Israeli defence-ministry body that controls aid into the Strip.
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September 19, 2026
The Monstrosity of Our Century – The War on Palestine and the Last Western Man
Iqbal Jassat · The Palestine Chronicle
A commentary on Amir Nour's book of the same name, which indicts the Western institutions that have stayed silent over Israel's destruction of Gaza, among them US universities that have not denounced the destruction of every university in the Strip.
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September 18, 2026
A Predatory State: Excavating the Architecture of Zionist Depravity
Diana Block · MR Online
A review of a Palestinian Feminist Collective report documenting sexualized and gendered violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians from 1948 to the present.
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September 16, 2026
NAZA: How a film became an ‘eighth front’ shaking ‘Israel’ from within
Al Mayadeen Israeli Affairs Department · MR Online (originally Al Mayadeen)
An account of the political backlash in Israel against NAZA, a documentary in which anonymous Israeli military figures describe how strike decisions and expected civilian casualties are weighed.
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September 13, 2026
Norman Finkelstein’s latest book indicts those ‘in high places’ for genocide in Gaza
James North · Mondoweiss
A review of Norman Finkelstein's book Gaza's Gravediggers, which focuses on officials and institutions worldwide that enabled the genocide rather than on its direct perpetrators.
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September 3, 2026
Where Hatred Lies
Omer Bartov · The New York Review of Books
A review of Mark Mazower's On Antisemitism: A Word in History, arguing that the charge of antisemitism has been turned into a tool for shielding Israel from criticism and that this misuse has opened space for the far right.
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September 3, 2026
Israel’s Blueprint for the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud · Consortium News
An analysis describing escalating killings, detentions, displacement and land seizures in the occupied West Bank since October 2023 as a continuation of the 1948 Nakba.
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September 1, 2026
Radical Jewish Tradition
Paul Buhle · Monthly Review
A review of Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone's book The Radical Jewish Tradition, which traces Jewish participation in radical and revolutionary movements and its tension with Zionism.
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August 30, 2026
Zionism and its Ramifications Explained
Rich Forer · Substack
A short post introducing a video clip and a longer video interview in which the author explains Zionism and discusses early Zionist leaders, the UN Partition Plan and Palestinian dispossession.
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August 21, 2026
Guilt, grief and strength: Gaza’s ‘sole survivor’ children face life alone
Huda Skaik · Middle East Eye
A report from Gaza City on children who are the only survivors of families killed in Israeli strikes, and the trauma and lack of support they face.
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August 20, 2026
History has proven Leibowitz right
Yakov M. Rabkin · MR Online (originally Pressenza)
An essay on the Israeli scholar Yeshayahu Leibowitz's early warnings about the dangers of the occupation and the sacralization of the state, arguing that events in Gaza have borne them out.
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August 17, 2026
August update and analysis on the West Bank
Jeff Halper · Substack
A monthly update and analysis by the founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions on Israeli military and settler actions in the West Bank and the wider situation in Palestine/Israel.
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August 8, 2026
Open letter from global Jewish organizations in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Mondoweiss
An open letter from Jewish groups in several countries condemning the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and endorsing the BDS movement.
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July 31, 2026
Moral courage vs. Cowardice
Mazin Qumsiyeh · Popular Resistance (blog)
A Palestinian scientist's essay contrasting moral courage and moral cowardice among Palestinians, Israelis and international observers, using Palestine as a test of conscience.
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February 8, 2025
Army was ordered to kill Israelis on 7 October, defense minister confirms
Asa Winstanley · The Electronic Intifada (via the author's Substack)
Former defence minister Yoav Gallant told Israel's Channel 12 that the Hannibal Directive, the order to stop captures even at the cost of the captives' lives, was issued "tactically" on 7 October. The piece sets his admission beside earlier Israeli reporting that the order went out across the whole area.
Articles: war and empire
US wars, the weapons trade, and the empire that funds the genocide. Newest first.
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October 22, 2026
The long march at ninety: Sovereignty and dual power
Tings Chak and Grace Cao · MR Online (from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)
Ninety years after the Long March ended, the authors look at the state Chinese communists built from below in Ruijin, with its own laws, currency, schools and elections, and argue that for Global South countries still bound by colonial structures and debt, sovereignty is necessary but not enough without changing class relations.
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October 22, 2026
The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits
Dylan Spaulding and Curtis T. Asplund · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A Union of Concerned Scientists physicist and a San José State professor argue the push to build new warhead cores is unnecessary and dangerous: a 2025 JASON study found stockpile plutonium ages slowly, while the program brings cost overruns, looser safety standards and glovebox fires at Los Alamos. Rocky Flats, outside Boulder, made pits until the FBI raided it in 1989.
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October 20, 2026
The ‘total strike’ has come for France
Frédéric Lordon · MR Online (from Tribune)
A French economist reads the revolt spreading from high-school blockades to refinery, transit and sanitation workers as the collision of two claims to sovereignty: the financial markets', which justified cuts to pensions, housing aid and public services after tax breaks for the rich, and the people's.
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October 17, 2026
Exploring the Mirror World of the Chinese Internet
Yi-Ling Liu, interviewed by Merle Groneweg · Jacobin
An interview with the author of a book on how people use the Chinese internet around its censors. The argument worth the time is the comparative one: the complacent contrast between a free American internet and a regimented Chinese one is collapsing, because both are converging on state and oligarchic control of what can be said online. Chinese policy swings between opening and tightening, and the swings track a fight inside the party rather than a settled doctrine.
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October 17, 2026
The dangerous advance of the far right in Latin America: U.S. hegemony, Israeli expansion, and Evangelical Zionism in the face of resistance
Pedro Monzón Barata · MR Online (from Al Mayadeen English)
An essay arguing that the wave of far-right governments across Latin America, from Milei in Argentina to Bukele in El Salvador and Kast in Chile, serves Washington's effort to restore its dominance of the hemisphere and gives Israel a strategic opening there. The author traces Israeli security and intelligence agreements with several of these governments, embassy moves to Jerusalem, and the sale of surveillance technology, and presents evangelical Christian Zionism as the electoral base that holds the alignment together. He ends with the weaknesses of the Latin American left and a call to organize against the bloc.
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October 15, 2026
How unequal exchange shapes our world
Jason Hickel · MR Online (from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
An economic anthropologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona argues that capitalism needs cheap labor and resources from outside its core, which makes imperialism a structural requirement rather than an accident. He traces the line from colonial destruction of Southern industry, through the IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs that undid post-independence gains, to today's trade data, which show a hidden net transfer of labor, land, materials and energy from the Global South to the North. His remedy is industrial policy and less dependence on imports from the core: a second stage of decolonization.
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October 5, 2026
Australian Island Base’s Hidden US Military Role
Peter Cronau · Consortium News (from Declassified Australia)
Runway and port works on Australia's remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands are being presented as local upgrades, while they prepare a platform for possible US operations against China.
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September 25, 2026
Remaining Silent
Jean Bricmont · Consortium News
A Belgian physicist and essayist argues that Western 'humanitarian' interventionism is hypocritical, citing a long record of US and European actions in the Middle East, and calls for a world order based on international law and non-interference.
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September 24, 2026
Jeffrey Sachs: Stop Mad King Donald’s Iran War
Jeffrey D. Sachs · Consortium News
An open letter to members of Congress urging them to use their war powers to end the war on Iran, arguing that the president's threat to destroy Iran violated the UN Charter.
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September 23, 2026
The real danger of AI is that it is run by evil warmongers
Caitlin Johnstone · MR Online
A commentary arguing that the main threat from artificial intelligence is its use by militaries and governments for weapons, surveillance and an arms race, rather than machines escaping human control.
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September 22, 2026
At the UN Trump Threatens to Use “Unmatched Military Power” in Latin America
Resumen Latinoamericano English
A report on President Trump's UN General Assembly speech, in which he cited Venezuela as a precedent and pledged to use US military might to secure Washington's interests in Latin America.
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September 20, 2026
Trump readies 40,000 bombs for Israel, wider war after Nov. 3
Gary Wilson · Struggle-La Lucha
A report on a planned transfer of tens of thousands of heavy bombs to Israel and the prospect of renewed US combat against Iran after the midterms, including how US military aid financing flows to American arms makers.
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September 17, 2026
Letters from the American Empire: September 17, 2026
Nick Estes · Nick Estes (Substack)
An essay marking 25 years since 9/11 that describes US global military dominance as 'hyper-imperialism' and argues that resistance in Iran and Yemen has exposed its fragility, while Western media recycle frontier-era language to justify war.
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September 15, 2026
Chris Hedges: Osama Bin Trump
Chris Hedges · Consortium News
An essay arguing that the US response to 9/11 launched a cycle of forever wars that has hollowed out American power, culminating in the war on Iran.
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September 11, 2026
Pentagon’s secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war
Joe Cirincione · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
An analysis warning that a closed Pentagon nuclear posture review may revive battlefield nuclear weapons and early-use doctrines, making nuclear war more likely.
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September 11, 2026
As Gulf Attacks Continue, Iranians Debate How and Whether to End the War
National Iranian American Council
A news roundup on renewed attacks on Gulf shipping, regional diplomacy via Oman and Pakistan, and the debate among Iranian political figures over whether and how to end the war.
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September 11, 2026
The Long Shadow of Osama bin Laden
Walden Bello · CounterPunch
A 25th-anniversary essay assessing the long-term strategic consequences of the 9/11 attacks for US imperial power.
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September 5, 2026
Exchange Ratio
Ervand Abrahamian (interview) · New Left Review – Sidecar
An interview with historian Ervand Abrahamian on Iran's domestic situation after six months of war, arguing that the US-Israeli war has strengthened rather than weakened the Iranian government.
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September 4, 2026
War in the Twilight
Andrew P. Napolitano · Consortium News
A former judge argues that the war on Iran was unauthorized by Congress, unconstitutional and strategically incoherent, and warns that failure abroad could fuel executive overreach at home.
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August 31, 2026
Road to International Chaos
Lawrence Davidson · Consortium News
A historian argues that US attacks on the International Criminal Court threaten the postwar system of international law and risk a return to lawless great-power conflict.
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August 30, 2026
New US strikes on Iran may revive war Trump wants to freeze
Trita Parsi · Responsible Statecraft
An analysis of US strikes following the Larak Island bombing, arguing that the administration appears to want a low-level conflict held in place until the midterm elections.
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August 23, 2026
Is Strangling Iran Going to Succeed?
John J. Mearsheimer · John Mearsheimer (Substack)
A political scientist argues that the US blockade and economic isolation of Iran will fail to force its submission, given Iran's resolve, its trading partners and the time pressure on Washington.
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August 12, 2026
Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies · Medea Benjamin (Substack)
An essay arguing that the enormously expensive US military has a poor record of winning wars since 1945, at great cost to Americans' health care, education and other public needs.
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August 10, 2026
HIROSHIMA 81: The Looming Risk of Nuclear Disaster
Peter Kuznick · Defend Democracy Press
The text of a historian's keynote in Nagasaki revisiting the decision to use the atomic bomb and warning about nuclear war-fighting doctrines today.
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August 7, 2026
The Normalcy of US Wars
Andrew P. Napolitano · Consortium News
A former judge traces how presidents have taken over the war-making power the Constitution gives to Congress, and argues this has drawn the US into many unnecessary wars.
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August 6, 2026
Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one
Renata Hessmann Dalaqua and Rebecca Davis Gibbons · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
An article arguing that the testimony of atomic-bomb survivors and nuclear-test victims should inform today's nuclear weapons policy debates.
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August 6, 2026
Trump Suspends Planned Escalatory Strikes on Iran Offering Tehran "One Last Chance" to Make a Deal
David T. Pyne · The Real War (David T. Pyne, Substack)
A commentary arguing the US cannot win the war on Iran, that striking Iran's power plants could trigger a regional and even global escalation, and that US munitions stocks are running low.
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July 13, 2026
Willful ignorance of the global impact of nuclear war
Alan Robock, Lili Xia and Zia Mian · Physics Today
Climate scientists from Rutgers and a Princeton nuclear-policy researcher argue that the global effects of nuclear war, above all nuclear winter, are being ignored just as arsenals grow and arms control erodes. Smoke from burning cities would cool and darken the planet for years, and current models suggest that even a regional war would badly disrupt harvests and food trade, while a US–Russia war could leave most of humanity facing famine. They criticize Pentagon models for counting only the immediate damage, and call on Congress to fund and require fuller study.