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Not Only Gaza: When Britain Aided Genocide in Indonesia
Not Only Gaza: When Britain Aided Genocide in Indonesia
Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
15.10.2025
When Presidents Kill
When Presidents Kill
No law permits — and prevailing U.S. judicial jurisprudence absolutely prohibits — summary murders of people not engaged in violence, at sea or anywhere else
10.10.2025
Empire by Numbers: 392 U.S. Military Interventions Across Every Region of the World
Empire by Numbers: 392 U.S. Military Interventions Across Every Region of the World
Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi’s 2023 book Dying by the Sword is both a work of scholarship and an unflinching indictment.
09.10.2025
US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control.
07.10.2025
Free Speech and Its Discontents
Free Speech and Its Discontents
A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow
26.09.2025
Our Age of Unreason
Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
23.09.2025
Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?
Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?
As of now, we have only our questions about the who and the why of the murder of Charlie Kirk. But questions, the right ones, have a power all their own.
22.09.2025
The Department of War Is Back!
The Department of War Is Back!
But Victoryless Culture Remains
19.09.2025
When Tony Blair Agreed to Back ‘Terrorists’
When Tony Blair Agreed to Back ‘Terrorists’
Blair’s government aided forces against Yugoslavia whose leaders are now on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, writes Mark Curtis.
19.09.2025
The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently ruled out making any territorial concession as part of a peace accord to end his country’s war with Russia.
08.09.2025
Did the Atomic Bombs End World War II?
Did the Atomic Bombs End World War II?
This is a fundamental question, as its answer is closely tied to the legitimacy of using nuclear weapons. A global reckoning with this issue could lay the groundwork for an international legal ban.
05.09.2025
The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again
The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again
While the public’s attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants.
04.09.2025
What message does China’s V-Day military parade send to the world?
What message does China’s V-Day military parade send to the world?
On September 3, in the name of the nation, we hold a grand military parade marking the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, commemorating that arduous and monumental triumph.
03.09.2025
Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, greet members of the National Guard, at Union Station in Washington
21.08.2025
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
In February 2016, Donald Trump scandalized Republican Party elites at a CNN town hall event in Columbus, Ohio.
20.08.2025
Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed
Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed
Exactly 63 years ago, on a summer afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Kennedy White House adviser, Arthur Schlesinger, returned to Harvard where he had, until recently, been a professor of history.
20.08.2025
The Neocolonial Trap
The Neocolonial Trap
Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history – can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?
19.08.2025
Will Obama's Coup d'état Bring Consequences to the Deep State?
Will Obama's Coup d'état Bring Consequences to the Deep State?
Any street magician will tell you that the key to any trick is drawing attention to one hand, while you masquerade with the other.
07.08.2025
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time.
06.08.2025
The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
After the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, there then ensued a U.S. propaganda campaign to claim the slaughter of more than 200,000 people saved lives, writes John LaForge.
06.08.2025
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The BBC isn’t failing. Its job is to obscure the UK’s partnership in Israel’s genocide
The BBC isn’t failing. Its job is to obscure the UK’s partnership in Israel’s genocide
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
Close the US Military Bases in Asia
Close the US Military Bases in Asia
A Farewell to Truth
A Farewell to Truth
Homelessness rises in the UK as rents skyrocket
Homelessness rises in the UK as rents skyrocket
Thousands dead and 10,000 missing in Libyan floods
Thousands dead and 10,000 missing in Libyan floods
Amid debacle of Ukrainian offensive
Amid debacle of Ukrainian offensive
US Expected to Announce New $1.3 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine
US Expected to Announce New $1.3 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine
Turkey, Hungary Expected to Ratify Sweden’s NATO Bid This Fall
Turkey, Hungary Expected to Ratify Sweden’s NATO Bid This Fall
NATO powers intensify offensive against Russia after Munich Security Conference
NATO powers intensify offensive against Russia after Munich Security Conference
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