CIRCLE WITH A DOT

'I see some Iranians in the diaspora doing the “Y.M.C.A.” Trump dance while their country burns. I dread opening X or any social media, which I do every morning anyway, just to see fellow Iranians applaud Donald Trump’s war on their country, deny atrocities, or even blame the regime for the missiles landing on their compatriots’ heads. Yes, I, too, am a self-hating Persian in those moments.'

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/iran-united-states-war-2026-diaspora-hooman-majd/
#Iran #IranWar #warOnIran #USpol #imperialViolence #régimeChangeWars

Centre for #PalestineStudies Annual Lecture 2026: History, #Gaza, and the Question of #Genocide, Professor #UssamaMakdisi

"Why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and #humanRights, is Muslim and Christian Palestinian life consistently devalued?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtLHjdpDpbs
#Palestine #GazaGenocide #historyOfPalestine #colonialViolence

"As missiles strike across #Israel and #Iran, what are we really allowed to see?

"With strict #censorship and limited access, #journalists and the public are seeing only part of the story: Who decides what information gets out, and what does that mean for truth in a war affecting millions?"

guest: #DianaButtu, Palestinian jurist and resident of Haifa

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/the-hidden-battlefield-censorship-in-the-israel-iran-war
#warOnIran #Palestine #Gaza #media #mediaCriticism #48Palestinians #apartheid

"The Israeli evacuation orders signal a desire to make this whole world disappear: to displace a fifth of the country’s population, to unravel a dense urban fabric and to erase a history of struggle and dislocation."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/evacuation-orders
#Israel #Lebanon #warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #colonialViolence #massDisplacement

"Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide #Roundup. It also protected the U.S.’s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/climate/bayer-white-phosphate-glyphosate-roundup-trump-executive-order-munition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.AIjA.0PHmj-J88VPB&smid=url-share
#pesticides #glyphosate #whitePhophorus #Bayer #BayerMonsanto #Monsanto #lobbies #USpol #Trump #chemicalWeapons #armesChimiques #phosphoreBlanc #lobbys #écocide

"#Iran is currently in the crosshairs, but the message is directed at all Middle Eastern states: do not dare challenge #Israel’s bid for regional hegemony or ethnic cleansing of #Palestine. Achieving the first would give Israel the immunity it needs for the second: rectifying the mistake the historian Benny Morris lamented when he criticized Ben Gurion for not expelling all the #Palestinians in 1948." - #IlanPappé

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/on-the-warpath
#warOnIran #Gaza #warOnGaza #MiddleEast #régimeChangeWars