Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again. The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat for historians of Australian history each new…
Putin told the media after the talks, “Regardless of the war, our supplies were regular and we paid, and still pay… money for transit.” Actually, Ukraine gets $1 billion annually…
Follow the logic. It is straightforward and reality based. 1 ) If you are reading this knowing it’s about promoting peace, you are a decent, kind, admirable person. 2) I…
Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance, they will wander, leaving their principles aside like unwanted impediments. …
Geneva, 3 January 2025: A record number of media workers were killed last year, deplored the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), citing that at least…
While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can surprise. The evolving body of law stripping back the immunity…
While world discourse on various issues has increased as never before with the rapid spread of media, social media, research institutions and think-tanks, it is disturbing to realize that at…
Thomas Friedman probably thought he was being clever when he titled his most recent article How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations. It’s a headline meant to…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a…
At a time when a year is ending or has just ended, it is common to wish for a better world in the new coming year. In recent times the…
Damascus (Quds News Network)- Ten people were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a facility in Adra, near Damascus. Syrian media reported that the target was a weapons depot…
History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen…
While the global south expects China to play a leading role in preventing and resisting the increasing domination of the world food system by giant western agribusiness companies, in recent…
Warning that the pace of development of artificial intelligence is "much faster" than he anticipated and is taking place in the absence of far-reaching regulations, the computer scientist often called…
Perhaps the most disturbing trend in the UK in recent times has been the increase in poverty and related distress. According to the UK Poverty 2024 Report, more than one…
Bryce Martinez (18) from Pennsylvania is mounting a legal challenge against major food companies, alleging that their ultra-processed foods (UPFs) led to his development of Type 2 diabetes and fatty…
Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the American and the world stage such as we…
Mike Pompeo’s role in the first Trump administration as both director of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Secretary of State will be forever associated with the venom and desperation…
Strong, visionary, decisive leadership has been missing for so long in America, we don’t even know what it looks like anymore. Arrogance and charisma are not the same as leadership.…
At a time when environmentalists are rightly very concerned about the protection of the highly sensitive ecology of Greenland, the headlines are instead filled with talk regarding the ‘sale’ of…
Rarely has the crystal ball used to divine the near future seemed so clouded by uncertainties. The year 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine…
For nearly five centuries western imperialism has been without doubt the most destructive force at the world level. It has caused more death and destruction than anything else in the…
A year back when we entered the New Year 2024, we all hoped that the year would bring end to the conflicts around the world and reduce the threat of…
There is so much conflict around the world accompanied by brutal killings and destruction. Often these conflicts are simplistically dismissed as religious rivalries, competing ethnic claims, caste-based oppression and racism, Some…
In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that “8.5 percent of the…
After 13 years of war and uprisings, the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has finally collapsed, sweeping the country into a vortex of high hopes and disarming joy as well…
The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian…
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price. For over two decades, I and a…
Geneva - Achieving civil peace and ensuring sustainable security in Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime requires adopting a transitional justice approach, strengthening the rule of law, and…
by Nuvpreet Kalra and Tim Biondo Earlier this month, the company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with California-based weapons company, Anduril, to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system, which was…
There are nearly 14 million children in the USA who suffer from food insecurity and hunger, or about one in five. During the peak of the COVID crisis this had…
Geneva - The year 2024 has been catastrophic for the Sudanese people, marked by a sharp escalation in crimes and violations against civilians in areas affected by armed conflict. The ongoing…
The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn from that busiest of cyber outfits in the…
Ten years ago, the U.S. and Cuba announced the start of normalization between our two countries. Americans and Cubans alike could see a bit of light through a crack in…
As the war between Sudan’s security forces continues into its 21st month, casualties mount in North Darfur’s besieged capital El Fasher, which has been cut off from food aid amid…
In a bold move, 18-year-old Bryce Martinez from Pennsylvania has taken a stand against some of the world's largest food corporations. Martinez has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against 11 major…
Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on the precipice of a potentially unprecedented and chaotic disregard for…
[Prefatory Note: My friend and solidarity colleague, Biljana Vankovska, has been dismissed as director of the Center of the Global Changes Center where she is a full Professor at Ss.…
The recent cyclone in Mayotte and the earlier violence in New Caledonia have drawn attention to the problems of people in ‘Overseas France’. France has 13 such ‘territories’ in various…
How do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? How can human beings shooting, bombing, slaughtering, destroying other human beings solve a problem?! War is loathsome. War is repugnant, and why shouldn’t it be when…
The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a temporary buffer zone from which tactical advantage can be gained against potential…
Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela: President-elect Donald Trump will face no shortage of foreign-policy challenges when he assumes office in January. None, however, comes close…
All eyes are on Syria, simply because the only thing known about how the new Syria will look like is frankly, the unknown. What is prevailing in the new predictions…
Victorious cheers and celebrations erupted across the capital, Damascus, as the nearly half-century-old Assad regime fell in Syria, the Middle East's central conflict zone. However, the stability and sovereignty of…
If a country suffers a very serious terrorist attack, how should it respond? Clearly it should investigate the attack very, very carefully and thereby finding out the culprits and any…
Since making what was likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and his campaign intimates, are now focusing…
The ongoing wars in different parts of the world is a cause of serious concern. The recent Russia Ukraine war which began on 24th February 2022 is not coming to an…
by Onyonge Mengo and Moses Awuor “Africa is Rising!”—or so the narrative goes. But the sun of economic growth does not shine on everyone. African youth face record-high unemployment, political underrepresentation,…
The national organization Veterans For Peace, with chapters in over 100 US cities, is calling on US Senators to vote NO on Pete Hegseth for US Defense Secretary, should President-elect nominate…
Orwa Nyrabia is a film activist, was a prisoner of the Assad regime in Syria before international pressure got him released. He later became artistic director of the International Film…
After December 2010 when a desperate and angry Tunisian young man of the name of Mohammad Bouazizi, dramatically immolated himself, an unprecedented wave of mass protests against incumbent totalitarian regimes…
Israel has made hundreds of air attacks on Syria in the days after the ouster of Assad, apart from its troops advancing on the ground. While these attacks have been…
Damascus (Quds News Network)- In its first official stance, the new Syrian Interim Government has condemned Israel’s invasion of Syrian territories. Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Qusai Al-Dhahhak, sent two…
After tenaciously holding on to power for more than a decade of war, the government of Bashar al-Assad crumbled in two weeks of limited fighting. Overwhelmed by a surprise blitzkrieg…
Zionist apologists commonly present support for Israel as a necessary extension of opposition to radical Islam and the threat of Jihadi terrorism. “Support us fighting them here, so you don’t…
Towards the Future of a New Syria Syria becomes a new nation free of bloody authoritarian dictatorship lasting over 54 years. The Arab-Muslim world lacks capacity to imagine this unthinkable…
Notwithstanding its many downsides, the era of neoliberal globalization had one significant claim to success: the growing wealth of once-poor countries, based largely on their ability to export into the…
After the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Israel has been encroaching on its neighbour’s territory. Israel has attacked Syria more than 400 times and, despite UN protests, launched a military incursion into…
Arab history witnessed the rise and fall of states. This was most notably the Umayyad state, taking Damascus as its capital and from there on reaching Andalusia. It finally collapsed…
Trump is a pestilence, an abomination. Really. He is. No more debate. It is as evident as a cloud of locusts. It is as undeniable as his pronouncements, appointments, and…
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