The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The US Empire is Retrenching, Bringing Imperialism Home Karen Kwiatkowski The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding may be signed already. If it is, 60 days of retrenchment, rejuvenation and rest may be on tap. Donald Trump certainly needs it , and so does the world. The latest US war – for Israel, as admitted by Trump, Rubio and Hegseth – has truly changed the Middle East, but not in the way Israel intended, nor the United States. The national security states in both the US and Israel no doubt had different expectations. For Israel, accelerating its ongoing genocide in Gaza, further fracturing the West Bank, and expand the northern “border” to the Litani River, seizing a fifth of Lebanon’s territory and permanently displacing a quarter of the Lebanese population, were among them. For the United States, perhaps the fundamental objective was nothing more than please let this be the last time we have to fight a war for Israel. On the surface, this latest episode of Bomb Iran! serve...

  The cry the algorithm cannot hear: “It matters to me”, the sentiment that will prevail over the annihilation of the future "You don’t obey, you kill": the prophetic relevance of Barbiana in the face of algorithmic drones. Ismaele Today I am providing my English translation of an article by Patrizia Pisino, originally in Italian and published on ComeDonChisciotte.org on Tuesday 6th May 2026. (All emphasis original, footnotes mine). Every armed conflict is, in its most tragic and true essence, an act of senseless barbarity. War does not resolve any dispute: it merely transforms human suffering into rubble, leaving behind only a silence of a grave where life once flourished. Its most heinous crime is not the destruction of buildings, but the violent tearing apart of the very fabric of humanity. Let us consider what is destroyed first and foremost: the future. In a just and harmonious world, an expectant mother should be able to caress her belly with the tender confidence of ...