Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Demonstrators call for freedom in Iran at a solidarity rally. Photo: alisdare1 / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Iran: Ongoing Unlawful Execution Campaign Against Protesters

At least 60 more protesters face imminent execution, Human Rights Watch says, after summary trials relying on torture-tainted confessions.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The Israeli settlement of Peduel in the occupied West Bank. Britain has announced a ban on goods produced in settlements like this one. Photo: Avner, via Wikimedia Commons

Britain Finally bans Goods from the Israeli-Occupied West Bank

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who once led Britain's Union of Jewish Students, made the announcement in the House of Commons.

How the Loser-in-chief sabotages the midterm – better a trumped up martyr than disaster-driven...

Haranguing, bonkers and beset,/ “Victim” Trump makes his riskiest bet.
A photojournalist wearing press identification and protective gear. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Israeli Strikes Wound Journalists in Lebanon and Gaza amid “Ceasefires”

The strikes come days after ceasefires were announced in both Gaza and Lebanon.
An 1865 world map using the Mercator projection, which shrinks Africa relative to its true size. Photo: Alvin Jewett Johnson, public domain

UN Wants to Right-Size Maps; Would it have Saved Trump from Iran Catastrophe?

Juan Cole argues that map projections which shrink Africa and the Middle East help explain why Washington keeps misjudging the size of the countries it goes to war with.
The US Capitol at dusk. Photo: Sven A Rajala / CC BY-SA 4.0

The second worst MAGA Trump calamity – more than equal to its Constitutional concussion

Robert S. Becker on the deeper, still-unfolding costs of Trumpism beyond its constitutional violations.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Israeli Security Chief Ben Gvir’s Murder Spree against Palestinian Civilians- “30 to 40 Every...

In a podcast interview with former hostage Ron Braslavski, Ben-Gvir said targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night.
The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Noclip (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
A South Korean armored vehicle crosses a bridge built by US and South Korean engineers during the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise. Photo: U.S. Army 2ID by Spc. Cheyenne Mayer (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Is Donald Trump Good for the Korean Peninsula?

North Korea ultimately prefers the predictability of Russia and China to the unreliability of the United States.