Former U.S. vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
Ladakh’s geography makes it crucially important to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. To put it directly under his government’s control, Modi took away its statehood rights. Ladakhis are now fighting to get them back, reports Betwa Sharma.
M.K. Bhadrakumar considers the possible complications for the U.S. president now that he has assumed the war-monger avatar and is escalating the pressure on Russia.
As poorer nations spend about 6.5 percent of export revenues servicing external debt, while world military and police spending skyrockets, it’s unlikely most countries will have the political will to shift priorities from social destruction to social care.
The role last year of a U.S. Navy helicopter when Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians during a hostage rescue operation is questioned by Abdullah Farooq and Griffin Mahon.
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different
A Strategic Blunder Disguised as Strength
Norway’s largest peace organization, the Norwegian Peace Council, has announced that it would forego its traditional torchlight procession for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year after widespread dissatisfaction with the Nobel Committee’s selection of Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado as this year’s laureate.
According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting “Death to the IDF!” Now he’s bullying police to let Israeli football thugs into the U.K. to chant “Death to the Arabs!”
Recent remarks from Angela Merkel have set the stage for a continent-wide search for scapegoats amid a failing strategy and fading unity
Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
The mainstream western worldview is like a children’s cartoon, with the Bad Guys doing Bad Things simply because they are Bad, and the Good Guys striving heroically to stop them.
The fragile ceasefire in Gaza reflects accelerating recalibration in the Middle East, as U.S. military maneuvers are giving way – so the story goes - to economic development promoted by the Arab states, China and the Global South.
Michelle Ellner on the Trump administration’s use of Puerto Rico as a launchpad for war on Venezuela.
President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations – all 1,500 miles from the U.S. – has posed grave issues of due process.
Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House.
Marjorie Cohn previews some of the cases the U.S. high court will use to establish the limits of executive power.
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