Stephen Prager: 100+ International Law Experts Say US Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter, Could Be War Crimes
The US started a war despite “no imminent threat” from Iran and has since carried out widespread attacks against schools, hospitals, civilian homes, and energy facilities.
Patricia A. Nugent: Missing Who I Was
This sign hit me hard today. I, too, miss who I was before…when I could watch the news, sleep at night, find time for creative expression. Feel unabashed joy.
Majid Naficy: The Persian New Year
When the Thirteenth Day comes
You’ll go with the flowing water
And speak to the sky and the earth
Of the beautiful moments of love.
David Kirby: Penelope’s Suitors
Honestly. Not the brightest guys in the world, are they?
Her husband sails off to Troy, and beautiful Penelope’s there
just ripe for the picking, only she keeps putting them off
George Yancy: The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe
The earliest roots (or pillars) of fascism — authoritarian rule, genocide and ethnic cleansing, militarism, racial capitalism, dual application of the law — can be traced to the colonization of Africa and chattel slavery across the Americas.
Pascale Petit: Black Jaguar with Quai Saint-Bernard
If I hold my breath, half-close my eyes
and listen hard — there at the tongue’s root,
in the voicebox of night, I might hear
the almost-vanished. He’s summoning his prey…
David Bromwich: The Most Dangerous Country
Machiavelli advised that it is good to be feared, but take care that you are not more hated than feared. We may already have crossed that line.
Monica Duffy Toft: Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine were ignored
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds…
Video: Israeli And Palestinian Mothers Walk Barefoot For Peace In Rome Streets
The activists demanded an end to violence, emphasizing that mothers everywhere want their children to live in dignity and safety.
Philip Levine: Blue
the men wakening one
at a time and reaching for
both the sky and the earth
James Crews: The Pond at Sunset
I forget I’ve already arrived
in the life I want, and that I am
still arriving at the same time.
Rebecca Gordon: American Gulag
We know we can dismantle the American gulag, because some of us are already doing it. It’s time for the rest of us to get to work.
Alison Hurwitz: Submerged
the story run across his skin, his mind a moving wheel
that cannot stop its circling, bearing down the road
with grackle wings, a story leafing past each turning
Andrew Reginald Hairston: On Building
I lost my second election on March 3, 2026…. I’m just getting started.
