The month's archives. - 2026/02 / perspective

Since the early 20th century, the US has commandeered coups around the world, helping opposition figures and their mutinous militaries topple leaders whose policies they abhor. Why? These heads of state launched programmes to redistribute land, strengthen labour unions, health and education systems and nationalise industries. Washington insists they're ‘communist' or ‘socialist' and will threaten American dominance and corporate interests. - Outside in / Comment, thenation

‘Damar tam' is an Arabic expression for total destruction. It's the term most often used by Gazan survivors when describing the state of the Palestinian enclave. With more than 71,000 people dead, 170,000 wounded, 80% of buildings destroyed, Gaza is a field of ruins and shattered lives. The scale of the catastrophe is such that comparisons with the Nakba of 1948 are apt: of what existed before 7 October 2023, almost nothing remains. This collection of articles bears witness to what has (…) - Ebooks / Dossier, ebook

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfer Database, 2025 - Arms trade / Map, [2026/02 war weapons](https://mondediplo.com/tag/2026/02 war weapons)

Sources: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, 2025, www.sipri.org; World Bank database, databank.worldbank.org - Arms trade / Map, [2026/02 four powers](https://mondediplo.com/tag/2026/02 four powers)

The senator from South Carolina has spent three decades advocating aggressive intervention as the solution to international problems. No wonder Trump's rhetoric is music to his ears. - 2026/02 / article

Seizing Palestinian land, planting vines and mislabelling their wines as ‘Product of Israel' has become common among Israeli settler winemakers. International buyers continue to turn a blind eye. - 2026/02 / article

For decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder. - 2026/02 / article

Asserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey's penal code. Denial prevents the state's founding myth from unravelling. - 2026/02 / article

World leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem. But this is not an exception: shelving suffering, and erasing ‘awkward' peoples, has become a defining logic of our time. - 2026/02 / article