Conflicts

Is BRICS the Way Forward?
Is BRICS the Way Forward?
After witnessing Cuba’s ailing economy in a recent visit, Asoka Bandarage looks beyond BRICS for an alternative to both authoritarian socialism and neoliberal capitalism.
11.07.2025
Searching for Monsters
Searching for Monsters
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.”
11.07.2025
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
At their summit in Brazil, members of the expanding Global South group condemned recent Israeli-U.S. attacks on Iran and Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul Rahman reports.
11.07.2025
Making ‘Terrorism’ a Meaningless Word
Making ‘Terrorism’ a Meaningless Word
“Terrorism” is just a label that means whatever the Western empire needs it to mean at a given time and place.
10.07.2025
The Way Most Americans Feel About Foreign Wars
The Way Most Americans Feel About Foreign Wars
When I was in Congress, the least popular, least respected members were the biggest publicity seekers – the ones who were the first and quickest to run to the cameras.
10.07.2025
Trump’s California Protest Crackdown & the Law
Trump’s California Protest Crackdown & the Law
Portland in 2020, Los Angeles today — Karen J. Greenberg covers the maximalist view of executive power emerging from Trump’s response to protests against ICE raids.
09.07.2025
Patents of a Parasitical North
Patents of a Parasitical North
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
07.07.2025
Battling for Dominance: Board Games and Bottlenecks
Battling for Dominance: Board Games and Bottlenecks
Steve Bannon declared China to be Donald Trump’s “real threat,” invoking what he called the “Edwardian view of geopolitics as a “world island”
07.07.2025
Can Israel Survive Without the West?
Can Israel Survive Without the West?
The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power
04.07.2025
Independence From Empire Day 2025
Independence From Empire Day 2025
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
04.07.2025
The Genocide Profiteers
The Genocide Profiteers
In her latest report, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese demands that more than 1,000 corporate entities sever ties with Israel or be held accountable for complicity in war crimes.
03.07.2025
Gaza’s Hunger Games
Gaza’s Hunger Games
The final impediment to the annexation of Gaza are the Palestinians themselves. They are the primary target. Starvation is the weapon of choice.
02.07.2025
The US Empire’s 72-Year War on Iran
The US Empire’s 72-Year War on Iran
The likely temporary Israel-Iran ceasefire notwithstanding, if you need proof of how despicable Donald Trump is, consider this
02.07.2025
Hedge Fund Owns ‘RAF Planes’ Targeted by Palestine Action
Hedge Fund Owns ‘RAF Planes’ Targeted by Palestine Action
Untangling the ownership of the RAF’s Voyager refueling aircraft shows how public money lavished on U.K. “defence” winds up rewarding rich financiers.
01.07.2025
US Bombing of Iran Harms Non-Proliferation
US Bombing of Iran Harms Non-Proliferation
Iran didn’t violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States did.
30.06.2025
The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War
The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War
Amid all the military calculations and geopolitical theater, Ramzy Baroud says one truth stands out. When it mattered most, the Iranian people stood united.
30.06.2025
Netanyahu Calls Israeli Soldiers’ Admission of War Crimes a ‘Blood Libel’
Netanyahu Calls Israeli Soldiers’ Admission of War Crimes a ‘Blood Libel’
The soldiers told Haaretz newspaper they were ordered to kill unarmed Gazans who were seeking food.
30.06.2025
The Real Winners: The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War
The Real Winners: The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War
On June 24, US President Donald Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran following nearly two weeks of open warfare.
27.06.2025
The US-Israeli Compulsion for War
The US-Israeli Compulsion for War
Democracy has nothing to do with the chokehold that the warfare state has on the American body politic, writes Norman Solomon.
26.06.2025
Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers
Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers
At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird – Mauritius – for a dose of encouragement.
26.06.2025
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Hocus Pocus, There Goes Habeas Corpus
Hocus Pocus, There Goes Habeas Corpus
Houthis Shoot Down US MQ-9 Reaper Drone Off Yemen
Houthis Shoot Down US MQ-9 Reaper Drone Off Yemen
Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded by Israeli Airstrikes in Syria’s Deir Ezzor
Two Syrian Soldiers Wounded by Israeli Airstrikes in Syria’s Deir Ezzor
US arrogance
US arrogance
Russia Pulls Out of Black Sea Grain Deal
Russia Pulls Out of Black Sea Grain Deal
Lavrov Says Russia Must Keep in Mind That F-16s Can Carry Nuclear Weapons
Lavrov Says Russia Must Keep in Mind That F-16s Can Carry Nuclear Weapons
Russia Says Warship Attacked By Ukrainian Sea Drones Near Bosphorus Strait
Russia Says Warship Attacked By Ukrainian Sea Drones Near Bosphorus Strait
Europe leads record rise in global military spending to $2.2 trillion as governments prepare for world war
Europe leads record rise in global military spending to $2.2 trillion as governments prepare for world war
Why Ukraine may embrace China’s peace plan
Why Ukraine may embrace China’s peace plan
Much Ado about Nothing
Much Ado about Nothing
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