Suppose a state drunk on the sadistic pleasure of mass expulsion, torture and genocidal annihilation, in the name of 'total victory,' finds itself in a mental health crisis – if there is no psychiatric healer to treat it, can it at least be diagnosed?
Photo: A Palestinian man records a burning truck after an Israeli settler attack in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank in November.Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP
“The Arabs have 52 states? Let them go there.” (…)

Eleni Varika, daughter of the historic leader of the Trotskist movement Vasos Varika, was born in Athens in 1949 and studied at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the University of Paris 7.
She participated in the Trotskist Communist Revolutionary Front in the Metropolitan and since 1977 in the OKDE after the unification of the two organizations. Shee was a key member of the newspaper Roadblock and was active in the (…)

As Iran's new wave of nationwide protests enters its 12^th day—and as reports of a widespread internet blackout since last night circulate—an old debate has returned to the center of political discussion with new speed: are “calls to action” from political figures driving the streets, or are they mainly an attempt to ride a movement that is already happening?
BBC Persian tackled this question on its program Goftogoo-ye Vizheh, hosted by Farnaz Ghazi-Zadeh, in a conversation with Leila (…)