In 2025, the world marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War - a moment that should compel us to reflect on the brutal nature of war and to remember the hard-earned lessons of history. Yet at this solemn juncture, recent remarks made by the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a memorial service commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II (WWII) have sparked intense controversy.
The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship. It’s perfected the art of silent control. It’s not that one is explicitly told what can’t be written — it’s that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous to say.
President Donald Trump appears set to repeat one of the worst mistakes of his first administration: fighting an unwinnable war in Yemen. This time, it could be far worse as Trump has sent two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Red Sea, meaning Americans will be doing the fighting, not the Saudis.
Trying to stop the war in Ukraine, spreading fear among conservative politicians and carrying out diplomacy with North Korea, as the U.S. president did in his first term, all earn points.
It doesn’t really pay for a liberal to see through propaganda because you either alienate yourself from all your liberal friends who are wallowing in it, or you sit in crushing silence out of fear of being ostracized.
U.S. President Donald Trump may, or may not, have been joking when he promised to be dictator for a day or when he called himself “the king” or when he asserted that he is above the law or even when he has teased about seeking a third term.
The government’s respect for speech is often at its lowest ebb in wartime, when it is also most important and timely.
Had the war plans been discussed on a secure government channel a record would have been kept, but Signal offered a way to make it disappear unless someone from outside took screenshots.
If Hamas struck a hospital treating Netanyahu it would not be justifiable. But the laws of war are forgotten when Israel violates them.
On March 16, The New York Times reported that “Ukrainian forces have pulled almost entirely out of the Kursk region of Russia.” After seven months, one Ukrainian soldier told the BBC, “Everything is finished in the Kursk region.”
The high-tech oligarchs surrounding Trump are set on using artificial intelligence and new technologies for the sake of uniting us around perpetual war.
According to a report of the Japanese media outlet NHK on Monday, Japan and the EU will jointly hold a seminar next week for coast guard officials from five Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines, on how to deal with "gray-zone situations," or situations that fall short of armed attacks.
There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.
As Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza accelerates, its lies fall away and the West’s so-called humanitarian values are revealed as meaningless.
Zionist extremists and Christian fascists, who are united and now hold senior positions throughout the Trump administration, embody a global movement to the extreme right.
The U.S. government, in its zealous enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, has become lawless.
Israel’s U.S.-supported massacres of Palestinians, Trump’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil and the C.I.A. spying on Julian Assange all tie together.
As if two world wars born in Europe were not enough, an increasingly divided Europe is seeking unity through militarization and hyperbolic fear of Russia.
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