Iran’s black rain is latest grim example of weather in war zones
David Hambling
The Guardian / March 27, 2026
Strikes on oil facilities burned thousands of tons of stored fuel, producing a pall of toxic smoke.
Black rain...
Amid Iran war, Israeli army backs far-right annexation of Palestinian West Bank
Scott Prosterman
Informed Comment / March 27, 2026
Oakland, Ca. – In the West Bank of Israeli Occupied Palestine, far-far right settlers have formed paramilitary groups...
Ground troops in Iran: an idiotic idea for an idiotic war
Branko Marcetic
Jacobin / March 27, 2026
Donald Trump is weighing whether to make the Iran War even more of a disaster by sending in ground...
‘My heart is breaking’: Lebanese family grieve daughter killed by Israeli bomb
William Christou & Abbas Abdelkarim
The Guardian / March 27, 2026
Narjis, one of 121 children killed in Lebanon this month, wanted to be a doctor...
Iraq mourns its dead after worst strike against its army since the start of...
Natalia Sancha
El Pais / March 27, 2026
The crossfire between the US and Tehran against pro- and anti-Iranian militias on Iraqi soil threatens to escalate...
A bizarre diplomatic showdown tests the Lebanese government’s waning authority
Alex Rowell
New Lines Magazine / March 27, 2026
What happens if a government orders the expulsion of a foreign state’s ambassador, but the ambassador doesn’t...
[Lebanon] Digging up the dead
Selma Dabbagh
London Review of Books / March 27, 2026
More than a million people have been displaced by Israel’s invasion and bombardment of Lebanon, many...
Blink and miss: Trump’s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale...
Eduardo Porter
The Guardian / March 27, 2026
President’s move, dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to have soured as he loses hold on situation in...
Does the tail wag the dog ? – how both sides are missing the...
Jonathan Cook
jonathancook.substack.com / March 27, 2026
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures...
‘Nothing is normal’: diary of Iranian president’s son reflects hopes and fears of ordinary...
Patrick Wintour
The Guardian / March 27, 2026
Yousef Pezeshkian’s daily social media posts reveal no state secrets, but expose questions dominating Iranian society.
An Iranian keeping...
