Ten people died in Israeli strikes on Nabatieh, including two paramedics on an active rescue mission. The November 2024 ceasefire has no enforcement mechanism — and no consequence for the party that keeps striking.
Since U.S. and Israeli strikes began February 28, Iran has executed at least 32 verified political prisoners. The war didn't build Tehran's repression — but it gave the regime exactly what it needed: the world's attention fixed on bombs while the executions proceed in the background.
A strike near the UAE's Barakah nuclear plant wasn't aimed at oil. It was aimed at the assumption that Gulf infrastructure exists outside the logic of the Iran conflict — and that assumption is now gone.
Cuba has exhausted its oil and diesel supply as the Trump administration escalates sanctions and raises the prospect of military action. The people living without power are not the Cuban government — and the policy causing this has never been evaluated on humanitarian grounds.
When a U.S. president returns from Beijing warning a democratic ally against asserting its own sovereignty, Taiwan's defiant response exposes a structural shift in how Washington signals — or fails to signal — its commitments to the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. president arrives in Beijing for high-stakes talks with Xi — but the Iran war has already reshaped the negotiating table, depleted American leverage, and handed China a diplomatic gift that no trade concession can offset.
Trump's first trade war gave Beijing seven years to study American pressure tactics and build countermeasures. The second term finds China with diversified trade partners, reduced dollar exposure, and a domestic chip program that sanctions accelerated rather than stopped.
Sen. Mark Kelly's challenge to the Iran war's logic is the most direct Democratic dissent in two months of hostilities — and it exposes a pattern of congressional abdication that has outlasted every American military conflict since 2001.
Settlers in the occupied West Bank forced a Palestinian family to exhume their recently buried father. The UN called it 'appalling and emblematic.' The structure that made it possible — and the impunity that will follow — is not incidental to U.S. policy. It is inseparable from it.
Trump's sustained public campaign to have Israeli President Herzog pardon Netanyahu isn't diplomatic commentary — it's an attempt to use American influence to terminate a criminal trial, and the pressure is getting more explicit as Israel's October election approaches.
Sovereignty, mandatory traceability, community-anchored development, binding accountability. The New Earth Framework proposes what voluntary guidelines never could. Part 6 — the conclusion.
Forty Senate Democrats voted this week to block arms sales to Israel — up from fifteen a year ago. The Pew data behind that jump tells a story about structural collapse, not a political moment.
Liberia funded civil war with blood diamonds — then rebuilt. The Palm Farm project invested $140K and transformed a region. If it works there, it can work in Sudan. Part 5 of a six-part investigation.
19 million children out of school. Child soldiers. Mercury poisoning. Sudan is producing the largest lost generation since Cambodia — and the world barely notices. Part 4 of a six-part investigation.
The tin in your phone's solder, the tantalum in its capacitors, the tungsten in its vibration motor, the gold on its connectors — all four can be traced to conflict zones where armed groups profit from extraction. Here is what conflict minerals are and why they matter.
Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a gap narrower than the English Channel. Iran has blocked it. The U.S. just declared a naval blockade. Here is everything you need to understand about the most important waterway on Earth.