Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity shallowness on full show,…
ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every…
The political and economic campaigns such as ‘America First’ by President Donald Trump, ‘India First’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and ‘Britain First’—a far-right political group founded in 2011 by…
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial, written by by Abdul Bari Atwan, chief editor of the Arabic Al Rai Al Youm website, on Saturday, 12 April relates to the first talks of the…
Former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter usually provides excellent analysis of geopolitical events and places them in a morally centered framework. However, in a recent X post, Ritter defends a…
During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centred around a totally different issue, they…
Why do the American ruling elites, both in the Republican and Democratic parties, oppose China so strongly? Since taking office, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of up to 145% on…
Highly disruptive and arbitrary policy decisions have been taken in recent times in countries from which much more maturity is expected and where democratic systems of checks and balances are…
Trump's attempt to pull USA out of the US laid post WWII economic order and instead take a path of isolationisn and economic protection, is perhaps the most systematic assault…
BRUSSELS – As part of his confrontational stance toward Europe, US President Donald Trump could end up weaponizing critical technologies. The European Union must appreciate the true nature of this…
Tariffs are dominating news, but of course there are several other important aspects of trade-related aggression. As has been increasingly seen in recent decades, particularly in the course of moving…
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once…
The American Federation of Labor (AFL), and later the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) have carried out their own foreign policy since the 1890s. These operations, done in the name…
In a gathering if the most powerful person says the most absurd thing but says it in the loudest and most threatening way, then this voice may just succeed in…
A week after US President Trump launched his economic war against the world under the banner of so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” China will have a tariff of 104 percent imposed on…
Humanitarian crisis is at its peak as an aftermath of the wars in Middle East and between Russian & Ukraine. Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas there is no…
After Trump came to power, the world tariff war has started. This tariff war has shaken the stock markets of the world including India. America itself is not untouched by…
From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this…
As the political West struggles to maintain cohesion in what often resembles a dysfunctional marriage – one seemingly heading toward an inevitable divorce – events unfolding on the other side of the…
Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced…
What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting target list?…
Because I live in Japan and post articles which are critical of America, I am often accused of being anti-American. The truth is both counter-intuitive and disturbing. I haven’t changed…
More than 1,200 demonstrations sponsored by over 400 activists’ groups took place on March 5 in all 50 states to protest Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s dismantling of the…
It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that the US-based entity can be…
We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree more that the corrupt U.S. government…
On March 26th, Congressman Jim Banks sent a letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi requesting that CODEPINK be investigated for our alleged funding from the Chinese Communist Party. According to…
As the Sudan Civil War completes two years this month (in April 2025), it has already claimed nearly 150,000 human lives and displaced nearly 12 million people. Unfortunately with big…
Experts say the Middle East region is poised on an impending war with the top protagonists being the USA, Israel and Iran. They stand on a military pedestal of violent…
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would…
[This essay is adapted from It’s Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics] Universities in the United States are facing one of the most serious attempts to impose political control on…
Amid growing international chaos, it should come as no surprise that nuclear dangers are increasing. The latest indication is a rising interest among U.S. allies in enhancing their nuclear weapons…
The presidential announcements and outrage come at us so viciously fast that it is difficult to keep up with the latest assault on governance, our intellect, decency, or humanity. Much…
The imposition of the new US tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world. It has been driven forward…
On Sunday 23 March, Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, for the first time since his hospitalization and before leaving the facility where he had been…
Politicians Speak from Hell We, the People of human conscience, appear incapable or unprepared not to imagine peace and global order as the cornerstone of logic and perceived wisdom to…
Paranoia manifests in various ways. It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and balance. It can be enlisted in the making of policy. The latter can…
The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
A lot has happened in the first three months of 2025. For many leading countries this short period would be recorded in history as a time of big changes. Although…
WASHINGTON, DC/BARCELONA – Imagine that some strange man wants a picture of your child. If it were the year 1750, he might commission an artist, who would then knock on…
He’s not as affable, well-meaning and certainly not at all a truth-seeker of the same kind. In terms of his potential historical impact though US President Donald Trump is destined…
Mike Huckabee—a Baptist minister, former Arkansas governor (1996–2007), and two-time Republican presidential candidate—has long courted controversy for his polarizing rhetoric on Israel and Palestine. President Trump’s nomination of Huckabee as…
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US…
In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven members of Veterans For Peace (VFP) visited Nicaragua in mid-to-late March as an official VFP delegation. Veterans from five U.S. states flew…
United States vice president JD Vance traveled to Kalaallit Nunaat (colonial designation: Greenland) to join his wife. He issued a statement that speaks much to the imperialist mindset of the…
Former Seattle City Councillor was presented with the annual Hands Against Racism award by Spice Radio at a well-attended event in Surrey on Sunday, March 30. Born and raised in…
As Democrats decry the Trump Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign. Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years,…
Recently, social media has been awash with “Ghibli-fied” versions of netizens selfies, family pictures and travel memories using OpenAI’s latest image generation capabilities for their LLMs. Some have taken a…
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 that struck in Myanmar yesterday has killed more than 700 people in that country and neighbouring Thailand. The death toll, however, could…
The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 80th anniversary of the Yalta conference: Thank you for inviting me to speak here…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly bloody fashion and resumed bombing of…
Trump Administration allies, along with their bipartisan co-conspirators in Congress, are actively undermining and rendering useless the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This week alone, they have repeatedly defamed…
“Do your job!” and “Families Over Billionaires” were the operative messages loudly chanted to Congress outside the Capitol at a morning rally calling attention to the Trump Musk/DOGE evisceration of…
During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump’s most controversial rally occurred at New York’s Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico — and…
Yesterday, in the US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the US government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a…
In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this money owed to foreign creditors is equivalent to…
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better. The Iron Dome shield…
This July the US Postal Service (USPS) will celebrate its 250th anniversary making it older than the country. Once again it is facing a call for privatization, this time from…
Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror.…
One of my friends sent me an article that suggested that Bernie Sanders’s recent rallies that goad Donald Trump had paid attendees. In response, I think that such a plan…
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