by Nermeen Shaikh | Apr 23, 2026 | Economy, food systems, global economy, Interview, Iran, Strait of Hormuz, War, world hunger
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have raised fuel costs and caused shortages of key fertilizers around the world, wreaking havoc on the agricultural industry. Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London, says the effects could be felt for a long time, particularly in the Global South. “About a third of the world’s…
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by Sharon Zhang | Apr 22, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, News, Sanctions, Scott Bessent
The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it is expanding its sanctions regime, known as “Economic Fury,” against Iran on Tuesday, escalating the administration’s economic warfare against the country just hours before President Donald Trump announced an extension of the ceasefire in Iran. The administration said it is sanctioning 14 individuals and entities that it claims are involved in…
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by Sharon Zhang | Apr 22, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, News, Nuclear Weapons, World War II
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (Kansas) said in an interview on Wednesday that President Donald Trump faces issues on par with those of World War II with regard to the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, seeming to suggest that Trump should nuke Iran in order to prevent the country from ever having nuclear weapons. Marshall was asked by a Newsmax anchor if he believes that the U.S.
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by George Yancy | Apr 21, 2026 | anti-Blackness, Christian nationalism, Christian Nationalists, Christianity, Donald Trump, Iran, iran war, JD Vance, Op-Ed, Pete Hegseth, Racial Justice, Religion, theology, Trump Administration, War, war in Iran, whiteness
As a philosopher, I am known for bringing a deeply uncomfortable truth to bear upon the hegemonic, hierarchical, and privileged embodied reality of whiteness. My aim has been to shape a critical discourse and produce a body of philosophical writing that reveals the ways in which whiteness functions as a mask, as a veil, to cover over the history of its violence. It does this through acts of denial…
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by Samantha Borek | Apr 20, 2026 | Dissent, Energy, Energy Crisis, Imperialism, Iran, iran war, Ireland, Militarization, News Analysis, Protests, Resistance, solidarity, War
As of April 16, the International Energy Agency reported that Europe has around six weeks left of jet fuel amid the ongoing war on Iran. This comes on the heels of a seven-day long blockade of major roadways by a decentralized coalition of farmers, truckers, agricultural contractors, and others in protest of skyrocketing fuel prices in Ireland. The country grinded to a halt as protesters also…
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by Jake Johnson | Apr 20, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, News, Pope Leo, Pope Leo XIV, Trump Administration, War
Parents of children killed in the US bombing of an elementary school in southern Iran released a letter on Sunday applauding Pope Leo XIV for speaking out against war and urging him to “continue to be the voice of the voiceless children.” “We write this letter to you with trembling hands and a heart full of pain, from amidst the ashes and ruins of the schools of the city of Minab…
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