Democracy in the Arab World

The Arab ruler concedes everything to Washington and nothing to his people — a pyromaniac firefighter.

غزة – فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي

Gaza - Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

From the 1982 Beirut siege to Gaza today, the AI-powered brutality of the occupation is revealed against the backdrop of popular resistance, Arab regime complicity, and an unprecedented surge of global solidarity.

أوكرانيا على مذبح المعسكريَن أوقفوا هذه الحرب!

Ukraine on the Altar of the Two Camps: Stop This War!

Bidayat

The Cold War ended by dissolving one alliance and enlarging the other, but Russian aggression remains aggression — and Ukrainians are paying the price. Stop this war.

هبّة فلسطين المستقبل ومستقبل الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي

The Palestine Uprising: The Future and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Bidayat

The recent Palestinian uprising and Israel's 'peace of hegemony' compel Arab and Palestinian forces to reconnect the liberation struggle with national sovereignty and move beyond military reductionism in the face of new regional alliances.

القتل من السماء تاريخ موجز للطيران الحربي ضد المدنيّين

Killing from the Sky: A Brief History of Military Aviation Against Civilians

Bidayat

Churchill proposed mustard gas on Iraqis as "more humane" — killing from the sky began against the colonized before Guernica. Daraa's people answered barrel bombs by drilling for water.

Incurable Hope

Extracts from the siege diary: an Israeli officer says "Palestinians are an epidemic"—asked about the resemblance to Hitler, he answers: "Yes." And "boutiques equal the number of martyrs."

اليمن في عين العاصفة

Yemen in the Eye of the Storm

Bidayat

The richest Arab states bomb the poorest — the Gulf Initiative destroyed Yemen by pardoning the dictator. Camp David summit: an arms fair, not a diplomatic forum.

الحرب الكونية ضد الارهاب – اعلى مراحل الاستعمار

The Global War on Terror - The Highest Stage of Colonialism

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Lenin inverted: "The War on Terror — the highest stage of colonialism." Instead of drying terrorism's sources, the sources are destroyed and their people displaced.

تحقيق عن تحقيق – في مجزرة موصوفة 

An Investigation into an Investigation - On a Documented Massacre

Bidayat

In Ghouta, the weapon was criminalized and its user excused: an international justice that seizes the tool and lets the crime walk.

اللعب على «تغيير قواعد اللعبة»

Playing at "Changing the Rules of the Game"

As-Safir

Israel bombs Damascus as "self-defense" while occupying the Golan—the Syrian people bury their dead while great powers decide their fate in their name.

مقابلة شاملة مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة والحرب في سورية

A Comprehensive Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on Revolution and War in Syria

Bidayat

The Syrian revolution, an expression of a deep crisis, was pushed into civil war by regime violence, yet it remains a revolution with class and sectarian dimensions requiring a clear vision from the Left and opposition.

الإستغاثة بالكيماوي

Calling on Chemical Weapons

As-Safir

The chemical weapons threat is not intimidation but a cry of bankruptcy — a regime blackmailing the world while every other method of killing passes as "legitimate."

غزة – مشهد ما بعد المعركة

Gaza - The Post-Battle Scene

As-Safir

The aggression on Gaza required a criminal provocation to draw Hamas into battle, but it places Arab policies towards the conflict at the heart of the present and necessitates connecting the national cause with the masses' movement for freedom and justice.

خطاب الاسد: الحرب مستمرة

Assad's Speech: The War Goes On

As-Safir

No orders to fire for eleven months across 400 sites — he warns of a "monopolist class" exploiting "current" events. No comment.

سوريا العيد بلا هدنة

Syria: A Holiday Without a Truce

As-Safir

Lavrov anointed Assad "protector of minorities" — the worst orientalist frameworks recycled from Moscow. What is Putin's price before "selling" the Levant's minorities?

لا جديد في سوريا

Nothing New in Syria

As-Safir

Nothing new in Syria but the regime's continued sabotage of peace initiatives and its escalating campaign of killing and destruction, waged in revenge against its own people, all under the watch of a paralyzed and hypocritical world.

سوريا في المبادرات الاقليمية والدولية: أوقفوا القتل!

Syria in Regional and International Initiatives: Stop the Killing!

As-Safir

After all this, what matters analysis? Stop the killing! — a cry addressed to no one on earth or in heaven.

العنف في الحروب الاهلية: القنّاص والمنتقم

Violence in Civil Wars: The Sniper and the Avenger

Bidayat

In civil wars, the language of war singularizes the enemy to justify collective punishment, turning the sniper and avenger into instruments of absurd violence that fragments society and makes the enemy latent within each individual.

عن حلب واخواتها والدهشة

On Aleppo, Its Sisters, and Astonishment

As-Safir

Robbing us of astonishment is the real crime — before Aleppo, resistance means refusing to get used to the killing.

الممانعة في أزمة «الممانعة»

Mumana'a in the Crisis of "Mumana'a"

As-Safir

Syria's "resistance" policy, which originated as a regional deterrence strategy, transformed into a tool for internal domination and is now in a structural crisis that weakens Syria's own resilience.

حوار هادئ: فواز طرابلسي يرد على خطاب نصرالله في الموضوع السوري

A Calm Dialogue: Fawwaz Traboulsi Responds to Nasrallah's Speech on the Syrian Issue

As-Safir

Bahrain's king's absolute powers are no greater than Assad's under his "reform" constitution — Nasrallah mourns four security chiefs but not their hundreds of thousands of victims.

العنف في الحروب الأهلية: القبيلة والمقدّس والمعجزة

Violence in Civil Wars: The Tribe, the Sacred, and the Miraculous

Bidayat

In civil wars, sects transform into monsters that draw justifications for violence from tribalism and the sacred, redefining the "stranger," beatifying leaders, and manufacturing miracles to purify the "sanctuary."

الدم اليمني في ذكرى الوحدة والانفصال

Yemeni Blood on the Anniversary of Unity and Secession

As-Safir

Yemen commemorates its unity anniversary with blood and separation, after a short-lived unity experiment marred by discrimination, necessitating today a popular referendum on the form of governance, especially in the South.

ماذا بعد الانتخابات السورية؟

What After the Syrian Elections?

As-Safir

No problems except the usual — thirty dead on election day. What's left? More violence. Then what?