Saudi Arabia's pipeline shut, but the poor pay the price
When the price of diesel hits six dollars a gallon at the pump, the people in the boardrooms in Riyadh and Washington call it "market volatility." But for the driver hauling…
By Alma Cordero ·
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Iran's drone strikes on Saudi Arabia tax the global working class
The cost of this geopolitical chess match isn't measured in diplomatic cables or satellite imagery; it’s measured at the pump.
By Maya Ellison ·
Saudi Arabia shuts key oil pipeline after drone attack launched from Iraq
The fiction that a kingdom built on petrodollars can indefinitely insulate itself from the fires it helped stoke has finally gone up in black smoke over Medina.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Ali al-Zaidi's councils cannot protect the East-West pipeline
The language of diplomacy is often just a polite way of documenting a grievance before you settle it.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Houthis choke the Bab al-Mandeb and the poor pay the ransom
When I was a charge nurse in the ER, we had a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
Trump uses 9/11 grief to fuel a new appetite for war
The image of 2,977 lights rising over New York Harbor—one for every soul lost on that Tuesday morning a quarter-century ago—was a rare moment of grace.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Iran launches missiles targeting Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain
The pattern unfolding across the Arabian Peninsula is not one of measured deterrence; it is a textbook demonstration of systemic instability masquerading as geopolitical pushback.
By Klaus Berger ·
Iraqi armed groups condemn ‘dangerous escalation’ after US-Saudi strikes
The moment the US and Saudi forces launched their strikes inside Iraq, the pretense dissolved into something far more familiar than ‘self-defence.’ It was a textbook exercise in…
By Aoife Gallagher ·