My latest piece for @uk.theconversation.com alongside @usempire.bsky.social Middle East conflict: this ceasefire may have made Iran stronger. theconversation.com/middle-east-...

theconversation.com/middle-east-... -The US and Israel may have demonstrated military superiority. But Iran has demonstrated something different: the ability to endure, adapt and convert pressure into leverage.

"Even Trump is vulnerable to prosecution, but after the supreme court’s deplorable ruling, not in the United States," writes @kennethroth.bsky.social.

Fascinating new research from a fair sized & representative Pews poll of US citizens. Negative views of Israel have grown dramatically amongst GOP & Dem young adults. Israel is losing its future electoral importance as older voters decline. The US is the most pro-Israeli govt.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3... 110 years since #EasterRising sent shockwaves across the world that empires days were numbered! Great song - and article links Irish freedom solidarity everywhere today against oppression m.thewire.in/article/hist... ✊🏽🤛🤝👊✊🏽

thewire.in/world/trumps... - Chaotic zigzags and a personalist temperament mark the global rise of erratic leadership.

The US Department of War Crimes.

So Israel has now killed very nearly as many Lebanese as Israelis were killed on October 7, including 100 children and there’s hardly a word of condemnation other than from Carney and Macron. Why no international outcry at the ethnic cleansing that’s taking place.

www.independentink.in/post/to-hono... Southasia war dead in war graves in Gaza violated by IDF - to the sound of silence from indian and other governments while Australia expresses outrage and condemnation

How Israel is waging war on bearing witness in Lebanon - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-israel-waging-war-bearing-witness-lebanon

sapannews.com/2026/03/27/d... - IDF violated and desecrated war graves of men fallen in world wars incl Indians of British Indian Armies - even the long dead not allowed to rest in peace by Israeli war machine; Indian government silent, as usual

It’s official: There are now 3,000 protests planned for No Kings Day. That means there will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

My latest for the @uk.theconversation.com alongside @usempire.bsky.social 'Donald Trump’s ‘new’ 15‑point plan is the biggest sign yet that Washington fears it is losing this war' theconversation.com/donald-trump...

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

Why would Iran ever think that? www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

This would be a war crime. Obviously. Collective punishment.

thewire.in/world/rival-... Critical multiplexity illuminates rupture: hierarchies are not inevitable; they are challenged by sustained construction of people-centred alternatives that place dignity and justice at the forefront. Which vision prevails on overlapping screens define emerging order.

So far the war on Iran has cost $25 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

The same logic of ethnic cleansing used in Palestine is now being applied in Lebanon: Israel is deliberately targeting medical facilities in the south, say health workers. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🗽 We had such a blast celebrating Reporting America with @jonsopel1.bsky.social, @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social, @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & @katietarrant.bsky.social, joined by @glendacooper.bsky.social & @usempire.bsky.social to talk conspiracies, disinformation & trolling in Trump's America!

The grift continues...

My latest for @theamargi.bsky.social alongside Prof @usempire.bsky.social dropped yesterday: Why Israel Became Washington’s Closest Ally Debates about the US–Israel relationship often focus on lobbying power in Washington. But this misses the deeper reality.

theamargi.com/posts/why-is... Israel status in US strategy did not arise from lobbying alone but from structural conditions of US hegemony and failure of regional states – including shah of Iran– to provide necessary combination of military capability, ideological alignment, and internal stability.

theconversation.com/middle-east-... - The recent strikes are more than tactical decisions for Trump admin. They reveal how deeply embedded primacy politics remains in regardless of who is doing it. The rhetoric has shifted. The structural impulse to defend US dominance through force has not.

My latest alongside @usempire.bsky.social Marching Against the Machine: US Anti-War Protests Unmask Trumpism's Imperial Core and the Erosion of American Primacy

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones. We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in. Everything is for sale.

An exclusive poll for The i Paper shows almost half of responders are against air strikes trib.al/4dGtKWH

theamargi.com/posts/israel... Claims that Israel drives US policy divorce its role from imperial logic. Washington instrumentalises the alliance; Israel advances objectives as a dependent proxy, but the senior partner calls the shots, retaining ultimate control even as allies nudge trajectories.

Excuse me?

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Congressional briefings undercut White House claim about Iran threat Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff that Iran was not planning to strike US forces unless Israel attacked Iran first, undercutting the administration’s claim of an imminent threat as a reason to launch strikes.

The UK has for decades tried to subvert Iran’s government. GCHQ’s top secret JTRIG project targeted the “general population” of Iran during 2009-11, and involved “discrediting the Iranian leadership and its nuclear programme”. www.declassifieduk.org/britains-lon...

Let’s just see how the BBC is framing this war of aggression, shall we?

Latest piece in @thewire.in alongside the great @usempire.bsky.social : US-Israeli strikes on Iran didn’t just escalate a conflict - they exposed the bipartisan machinery of American primacy and the ease with which diplomacy is sidelined in favour of military spectacle.

THIS.

thewire.in/world/todays... - America First exposed as con for war and empire programme - Trumps days are numbered amid domestic pogroms mass resistance and eroding Maga base

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

Prior to 2015, if any candidate for elected office had begun a public statement or tweet with this sentence, he or she would have been laughed out of public life. Now, Americans re-elect them as commander-in-chief. I will never allow myself to become numb to his insanity.

thewire.in/world/malcol... Imperium integrating enough voices to sustain legitimacy, crushing those expose racial-imperial core. Malcolm, King, Panthers, progressive Kennedys threatened that balance. Their elimination, followed by COINTELPRO, entrenched a more militarised, unequal order.

It's the best time of the month: Feb updates are out now! 🎉 Inc : 📚 The latest in IR: Winter book roundup 🌟 Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture 📝 The latest research from Review of International Studies Find our full updates here! 👉 https://ow.ly/PK1250YhXw8 @julietdryden.bsky.social

thewire.in/rights/rainb... - ackson's legacy is not one of triumph or failure, but of persistent contradiction – a reminder that courage without structural rupture risks absorption into the very hegemony it seeks to overthrow.