Take Cuba Off The List
Take Cuba off the list. That’s the call from nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries today as they sign a joint letter, coordinated and published by the Progressive International, condemning...
View ArticlePutin Has Allowed the West to Cross So Many Lines That He Is Now Under...
He’s also boxed himself in by his own language. The British establishment might best be described as America’s labradoodle. For while it has long been a cliché to describe it as America’s poodle, this...
View ArticleIs It Nicaragua That Is “Weaponizing” Immigration or Washington?
Claims that Nicaragua is “weaponizing” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the U.S. border have been appearing regularly in the media over the last twelve months. The claim was...
View ArticleWhy Is the US Government Trying to Censor African Media?
Days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced sanctions against Russian state broadcaster RT and other non-western-aligned media platforms, Meta banned the accounts of African Stream, a...
View ArticleUNGA Resolves to Sanction Israel: Pressure Your Government to Make This a...
On September 18th, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted for imposing sanctions on Israel for the first time in 42 years! The global majority affirmed that the historic ruling by the...
View ArticleIn Honduras, Libertarians and Legal Claims Threaten to Bankrupt a Nation
ROATÁN, Honduras—Years later, Luisa Connor and Vanessa Cárdenas would look back ruefully on the day foreigners visited their beachfront village with plans for a development next door. They had no idea...
View ArticleA Nuclear War in Ukraine Is a Distinct Possibility
The war in Ukraine has been going on for 2.5 years with no end on sight. Not only that, but we are now close to a nuclear war, according to the Norwegian scholar Glenn Diesen who predicted in November...
View ArticleUS Provoked the 1979 Russian Invasion of Afghanistan: Parallel to the Ukraine...
The December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan was a watershed event, one that definitively ended “détente” between the global superpowers, the United States and the USSR, and inaugurated a new and more...
View ArticleHow the Climate Crisis Is Shaping Geopolitics
Bangladesh was still reeling from political turmoil, which felled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5, when a flood disaster struck out of the blue, upending the lives of 6 million...
View ArticleThe Pro-Palestine Student Movement Should Unite With the Boeing Workers’ Strike
On September 18, students walked out of a job fair at Cornell University, one of the elite universities that organized an unprecedented student movement in solidarity with Palestine and that also...
View ArticleWar Forever, Everywhere
Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields. This has been true of America’s post-9/11 forever wars that,...
View ArticleFears of ‘Imminent Catastrophe’ Mount as Hezbollah Hits Back Amid Israeli...
Fears of an all-out Middle East war mounted Sunday as Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into Israel, whose military continued bombing targets in southern Lebanon while moving troops, tanks, and...
View ArticleWithout Debt Relief, Africa is Fighting Climate Change With Its Hands Tied
Earlier this month, environment ministers from across Africa gathered in Côte d’Ivoire to discuss the continent’s environmental governance and find unified positions to bring into international climate...
View ArticleIsrael Bombs Lebanon After Blowing Up Pagers in “Act of Mass Mutilation.” Is...
Israel attacked more than 300 sites in Lebanon Monday, killing at least 182 people and injuring more than 700 others as fears grow of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. The Israeli military...
View ArticleUS Sending Troops to Middle East as Biden Insists He’s Working on De-Escalation
The Pentagon has announced that it is sending additional U.S. troops to the Middle East “out of an abundance of caution” after Israel launched a series of attacks on Lebanon that have killed hundreds...
View ArticleThe World Says That Israel’s Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Must End
On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution that demanded that Israel immediately withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) of East Jerusalem,...
View ArticleIsrael’s Bloodbath in Lebanon
On Monday, Israel engaged in its most deadly attacks in Lebanon since its 2006 invasion of the country, striking heavily populated areas throughout southern Lebanon—including hitting medical centers...
View ArticleNetanyahu Plays Chicken
Netanyahu is desperate to keep war simmering along and to draw the USA closer and closer to him. At the same time he cannot send ground forces into South Lebanon where they will take massive...
View ArticleMilitarism Abuse Disorder
My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I’m introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people who have substance abuse...
View ArticleNorman Solomon on U.S. Foreign Policy
Norman Solomon talked about U.S. foreign policy. His book includes a new section on Gaza.
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