Hossam Shaker for Middle East Monitor People can be consciously aware of atrocities without experiencing the moral outrage those horrors warrant. This emotional detachment is particularly pronounced when atrocities target “those who are different,” occur in seemingly “remote” lands, or repeat so frequently that they dissolve into a familiar, predictable monotony. Psychological frameworks explain this […]
Jeffrey Wernick There is a phrase that does a great deal of work in American political argument, and almost none of it honest. The phrase is American culture, invoked as something immigrants endanger and citizens defend. It is worth asking what the phrase means, because the moment you press it, the entire architecture of the […]
Olivia Riggio FAIR Euronews (6/26/26) shows how easy it is to link extreme weather to climate change, and climate change to fossil fuels. Severe weather has gripped the globe this week, with record-shattering, deadly heat in Western Europe. In the US, heat, wind and drought conditions fueled wildfires in the Southwest, while heavy thunderstorms, wind and […]
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute or Social Research. Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought. Narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task. Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We […]
A recent UN commission report concluded Israeli forces deliberately target Palestinian children in Gaza as part of a strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinian people.
Ana Vračar , June 28, 2026
For further reading, the interview references the article “Stop ‘Greater Israel’ to Make Peace”: In which Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares argue that the ideology of “Greater Israel” has become the driving force behind decades of conflict across the Middle East, describing it as an expansionist doctrine that continues to fuel war rather than security. […]