Gaza: a meditation on spirit and survival
Reza Behnam
CounterPunch / June 5, 2026
The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing...
World nears oil operational floor, $200/b without Hormuz deal
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / June 5, 2026
Ann Arbor – The International Energy Agency has made its May report free to download, and the news...
How a shortage of gas, engine oil and spare parts is grinding Gaza to...
Seham Tantesh
The Guardian / June 5, 2026
With food and medicine already scarce, emergency services, bakeries and water supplies are increasingly being pushed to the...
From exporting spyware to surveilling activists – how democracies became the new digital authoritarians
Ihsan Yilmaz & Nicholas Morieson
The Conversation / June 5, 2026
“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent.
China remains...
Israel strikes southern Lebanon after ordering evacuations of nine villages
William Christou & Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian / June 5, 2026
Thousands flee including from village hosting at least 2,500 displaced people, one day after Hezbollah...
On the fifty-ninth year of the Naksa of 1967
Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
CounterPunch / June 5, 2026
On June 5, 1967, over six days, some three hundred thousand Palestinians were driven from the West...
The Palestine industry: the rats of Gaza and the opportunists among us
Ramzy Baroud
CounterPunch / June 5, 2026
It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza.
Since internet lines rarely...
Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with this new legislation –...
Eli Clifton & Ian Lustick
The Guardian / June 5, 2026
Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to...
Trump and Netanyahu: the odd couple
Jamal Kanj
Middle East Monitor / June 5, 2026
“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Iran strikes US military in Kuwait, major media fail to provide key detail
Eric Draitser
CounterPunch / June 5, 2026
Major news outlets have reported on the US and Iran exchanging attacks overnight and early morning on June 3,...
