Ryan James

A man in a blue jacket and red hat sicks a magnetic sign on a bonnet of a vehicle

What is Unarmed Civilian Accompaniment?

“Are you the guy?” he said.“I’m the guy,” I answered. “Do you have the names?”“I have the names.” It was like a scene from a bad

Three boats at sea

The promise of the sea

Just over a week ago, the Israeli Occupation Forces intercepted and detained the crews of over twenty boats sailing to break the siege of Gaza.

Search signs pasted to electric posts

Stories held by the Aegean Islands

In the first hours of 2026, Haidar and Hussein were lost. They set off from Turkey on New Year’s Eve to reach Europe and a

People on a demonstration

The day before the ceasefire

The day before the ceasefire, the US was promising to wipe Iran off the map. “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump wrote, “never to

a woman speaks at a protest where people hold signs

The only choices left

Here’s what we’ve seen this week: Israeli parliamentarians celebrated as they passed a death-penalty law targeting Palestinians. They popped the champagne, and wore lapel pins

Tehran - The Fourth Day of War

Making sense of the contradictions

As the war with Iran continues and the death toll rises, many of us are trying to make sense of the contradictions it has exposed,

bombed tehran

Bombs don’t bring liberation

On Saturday morning, Israel and the United States began a large-scale bombing campaign against Iran. Within days the region has been pulled into a widening

Lesvos overview

The right kind of guests

Over my years living on a Greek island there were a few moments in which I felt penned in. In closed communities, consensus can form

The war for Iran

The USA is gearing up for war with Iran. I’ve anticipated this war all my life, but I didn’t expect to feel quite so disoriented

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