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Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner
Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner
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.
30.10.2025
Dealing Arms or Healing Minds?
Dealing Arms or Healing Minds?
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.
27.10.2025
Trump’s Military Occupation of America
Trump’s Military Occupation of America
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.”
20.10.2025
US Supreme Court May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority
US Supreme Court May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority
Marjorie Cohn previews some of the cases the U.S. high court will use to establish the limits of executive power.
17.10.2025
Trump’s War on America
Trump’s War on America
The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” is to be a preemptive war against those individuals and institutions which threaten Trump’s absolute grip on power.
04.10.2025
Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East
Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East
The West is finally starting to catch on, as evidenced by Israeli officials' increasing isolation at the UN last week
30.09.2025
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
We Are All Antifa Now
We Are All Antifa Now
The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
25.09.2025
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
A Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth
A Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth
The proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.
19.09.2025
The Department of War Is Back!
The Department of War Is Back!
But Victoryless Culture Remains
19.09.2025
The Right to Be Left Alone
The Right to Be Left Alone
What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message and all the fiber-optic data generated by every person and entity in the United States 24/7?
14.08.2025
From Carthage To Berlin, A Modest Proposal
From Carthage To Berlin, A Modest Proposal
The First Punic War began in 264 BC, lasted 25 years, and was fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians, a civilization in what is today modern Tunisia.
18.07.2025
American Authoritarianism
American Authoritarianism
Torture, rotating judges and prosecutors and incarceration for a generation without charges or trial are all hallmarks of an authoritarian government, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
18.07.2025
From Media Darling to Persona Non Grata: Greta Thunberg’s Journey
From Media Darling to Persona Non Grata: Greta Thunberg’s Journey
Alan MacLeod looks at how the Swedish climate activist widened her focus to the capitalist system and Israeli genocide in Gaza and lost the attention of the corporate press.
14.07.2025
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
A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety.
27.06.2025
AI & the End of Thinking?
AI & the End of Thinking?
Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution.
05.06.2025
Inside Labour’s Plot to Take Down Corbyn
Inside Labour’s Plot to Take Down Corbyn
Richard Sanders on Get In, a book on Morgan McSweeney, the Labour strategist who focused on bringing down Corbyn and propelling Keir Starmer to power.
29.04.2025
Liberation or Obliteration?
Liberation or Obliteration?
President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to Bush-era neoconservatism.
08.04.2025
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Multipolarity and Its Potentials for Peace
Multipolarity and Its Potentials for Peace
Warning “famine is setting in,” International Court of Justice orders “unhindered provision” of humanitarian aid to Gaza
Warning “famine is setting in,” International Court of Justice orders “unhindered provision” of humanitarian aid to Gaza
Heavy US and British Bombing Reported in Yemen’s Hodeidah Province
Heavy US and British Bombing Reported in Yemen’s Hodeidah Province
Consensus to avoid humanitarian disaster in Gaza direly needs to be implemented
Consensus to avoid humanitarian disaster in Gaza direly needs to be implemented
Australia announces another $110 million for US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
Australia announces another $110 million for US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
UK to Give Ukraine Depleted Uranium Shells Despite Russian Warnings
UK to Give Ukraine Depleted Uranium Shells Despite Russian Warnings
Pope Blesses Racism and Civilisational Clash in Europe
Pope Blesses Racism and Civilisational Clash in Europe
An Onslaught On Iran
An Onslaught On Iran
US doesn’t See Ukraine as NATO Ally, but as de Facto Cannon Fodder
US doesn’t See Ukraine as NATO Ally, but as de Facto Cannon Fodder
Seize the hour
Seize the hour
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