What’s in your basement? Mine is full of things I’ve mostly forgotten about — tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on…
It was a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee and the…
As a matter of historical fact, since human beings have been living in settled communities (villages, towns, cities), they have sought to protect themselves against different types of military threats…
The United States launched on Friday night what officials billed as a weeks- or months-long campaign in the Middle East targeting Iran. US President Joe Biden sent nuclear-capable B-1B bombers…
The U.S. launched airstrikes against militias in Syria and Iraq as retaliation for the drone attack that killed three U.S. soldiers, pulling the Biden administration even deeper into the conflict…
Any confrontation with the US, be it direct or indirect, can be won if the other side simply outlasts the political will of American politicians amid domestic pressure. This was…
“You used to be so amusedAt Napoleon in rags and the language that he usedGo to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuseWhen you ain’t got nothing, you got…
Parts of U.S. media are laying off hundreds of journalists. The Messenger, a U.S. online news site that promoted itself to deliver unbiased and trusted news, abruptly shut down Wednesday…
Former Apple Daily owner Jimmy Lai is on trial under National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong for foreign collusion and subversion. Lai, a key figure in the riots which…
So, Donald Trump won Iowa. A crazed billionaire who wants to “suspend the Constitution” and claims the right to a murder his political enemies. It doesn’t have to be this…
Seizing upon Sunday’s killing of three US troops in an airstrike by Iraqi militia in Jordan, the United States is planning a protracted military offensive throughout the Middle East. NBC…
The BBC’s characteristically mild-mannered note said it all: What is Tower 22? More to the point, what are US forces doing in Jordan? (To be more precise, a dusty scratching…
by Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and military interests, as…
The DPP is fighting a losing battle and lacks a strong mandate, as evidenced by the fact that 60 percent of the population on the island did not vote for…
Someone may be in confusion – what the country’s political system is – a kingdom or a republic? Whatever the political system’s nomenclature suggests, it’s bloody sure that the system…
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned in…
On January 28 and 29 the already volatile situation in the Middle-East escalated suddenly with three attacks whose source or other aspects were clouded in uncertainty and dispute. First, a…
To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and…
The military governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have announced their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), claiming the regional bloc has become a tool…
During the evening of January 25, Kenneth Eugene Smith, having failed to convince the US Supreme Court to delay his execution, became yet another victim of judicial, state-sanctioned murder. A…
A very important aspect of democracy is supposed to be that well-informed public opinion is able to influence government policy in important ways, functioning as an effective corrective. Hence policy…
US Central Command claimed Sunday that three US soldiers were killed and 25 injured in a drone strike against a US base in Jordan near the Syrian border. US officials…
For several weeks farmers in France were very angry, and in a normal French way they displayed their anger with full vigour. Last week they selected a day and on that…
What is Arab? Understanding Arab culture and the values based on it are the crucial points for the proper understanding of the modern region of MENA (composed of the Middle…
To protest rightist policies of far-right president, Argentinians have begun a general strike on Wednesday. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) called on Argentinians to mobilize nationwide to protest against…
A powerful symbol of the U.S.-led global security order is increasingly under threat by the Yemeni rebel group. The lack of a robust international response has laid bare vulnerabilities as…
In October 2023, 10 members of the German parliament (Bundestag) left Die Linke (the Left) and declared their intention to form their own party. With their departure, Die Linke’s parliamentary…
It has become sacrilegious to ever use Adolph Hitler in any comparison of a current political person or group. Sorry children, but we need to give careful scrutiny to our…
His type should never be seen again. Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies:…
More than 100,000 people marched in cities across Germany on Saturday to protest the rise of the country's leading far-right party. Anger toward the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party began brewing…
If one is asked to identify three biggest needs of our deeply troubled times these would be—peace, peace and peace. This is because while peace itself is such a compelling…
So much for that. Much had been promised by Florida Governor Ron De Santis to derail Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House. But the attempt to wrest…
In an online video interview, libertarian judge Andrew Napolitano asked University of Chicago political scientist and international relations professor John Mearsheimer to “translate” president Xi’s remarks in his New Year…
Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He’s managed to capitalize on his 2020 election loss, using his failed insurrection,…
Is it the end of the world if we blow it? For the first time in history humans have the power to communicate with just about everyone everywhere and look…
The big media, fed by the West, manufactures news about Taiwan. It always reports thus: “ Taiwan which China claims as part of its territory,” a cliche. It hides the…
UK defense minister Grant Shapps has predicted a global conflict between the West and Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, within five years. Shapps has called on Britain’s allies to increase…
On February 20, Julian Assange, the daredevil publisher of WikiLeaks, will be going into battle, yet again, with the British justice system – or what counts for it. The UK…
In the 1960s and 1970s, Big Tobacco and public health advocates were locked in a battle. The anti-smoking supporters were gaining ground as cities were innovating ways to reduce smoking and protect…
(This is Part-2 of a two-part article) Late last year, a colleague sent me a letter decrying some of my writings about China, notably the last newsletter of 2023. This newsletter is…
(This is Part-1 of a two-part article) In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a…
It is relatively easier to achieve wide agreement that those problems which threaten the basic life-nurturing conditions of earth—such as accumulation of weapons of mass destruction, climate change and other…
In the context of some of the most important events of historical importance in recent decades there have been persistent efforts to know the entire truth, accompanied by widespread…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a press conference in New York on Monday: The current instability in the Middle East may soon spiral completely out of control. Guterres once…
There is something distinctly revolting and authoritarian about the royal prerogative. It reeks of clandestine assumption, unwarranted self-confidence and, most of all, a blithe indifference to accountability before elected representatives. …
If, On Martin Luther King’s Birthday and U.S. National Holiday, President Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego of Columbia would quote from King’s mainstream media covered up 1967 New York sermon ‘Beyond…
Following the “National March on Washington For Gaza,” San Francisco saw its own massive protest on January 14 calling for an immediate ceasefire in ending the Israeli genocide that has…
All prison guards and administrative employees held hostage by inmates at correctional facilities across Ecuador have now been freed, the national prisons agency SNAI said Saturday night. The SNAI prison…
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill desperately tried to persuade United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare war on Germany and enter World War II. The U.S. president recognized Nazi…
If, On Martin Luther King’s Birthday and U.S. National Holiday, President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela would quote from King’s mainstream media’ long covered up 1967 New York sermon ‘Beyond Vietnam…
It is a paradox that the point of research which became most controversial in the context of the COVID origin debate had a curious situation of a high-risk project in…
The United Nations is a global organization that brings together its member states to confront common challenges, manage shared responsibilities and exercise collective action in an enduring “quest for a…
Sometimes it is even more clear than usual, the priorities of US capitalism: near 24,000 civilian lives lost is acceptable, a 20% drop in Red Sea traffic is not. Assuring…
If, during the three day Martin Luther King birthday holiday, a world attention getting source, for example, a high enough profiled Chinese government official, pointed out that the government of…
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli In late November 2023, an unsavory group of people – members of the Germany’s far right AfD and Neo-Nazis – entered the brightly lit…
You got a government that is run by a Two Party con job. You have one side that borders on outright fascism, if not a return to Germany circa 1932.…
What a show. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was promoting a message of calm restraint and firm control in limiting the toxic fallout of Israel’s horrific campaign in…
On Rev. Martin Luther King’s Birthday Holiday, a Palestinian spokesperson might well want to draw world public attention to King’s 1967 New York sermon ‘Beyond Vietnam - a Time to…
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, the highest level of acute food insecurity (Phase 3 and above—crisis and worse) as well as catastrophic hunger (the highest…
The U.S. and the UK have launched an attack on Yemen, striking the cities of Sanaa and Hodeidah, Houthi spokesman Abdulsalam Jahaf said early on Friday. Western newspapers including the…
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