Is Trump “the only hope we have”?
RT ran a headline: “Putin must be ‘adult in the room’ on Ukraine conflict.” This is according to left-leaning comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore. “Joe Biden and the neo-cons…
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Peru’s Choices Between a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars
Between November 15 and 16, 2024, the government of Peru hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This 21-country gathering that first started in 1989 brings together the major countries…
What I Haven’t Seen Since the Second Election of Donald Trump
Since the US Presidential Election of November 5th, 2024, I have seen a lot from Democrats and Harris supporters. I’ve seen a great deal of introspection. I’ve seen a great…
From Kennedy to Biden there has been a shocking decline in US policy’s regard for world peace and safety
62 years back a truly great President of the USA John Kennedy made a never-to-be-forgotten contribution to saving the world from nuclear war. Today an outgoing US President Joe Biden…
How to Survive Donald Trump’s America
by Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes “If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions…
Seven Decades of China-Brazil Friendship: Cultural Diplomacy, Agrarian Reform, and the Cold War
In the new eraDespite the punishmentsWe are grownWe are alertWe are more aliveTo rescue each other In the new eraDespite the dangersOf brute forceOf the frightening nightWe are in the…
Trump, Trumpism, and the Polycrisis
“Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from geopolitics and economics to climate and pandemic –…
Yemen Appears to Have the Upper Hand in Its Conflict With the United States
On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah and of the government of Yemen,…
Corporate Vision for the Future of Food: Manifesto for Control and Technocratic Tyranny
Sainsbury’s is one of the ‘big six’ supermarkets in the UK. In 2019, it released its Future of Food report. It is not merely a misguided attempt at forecasting future…
Panchvarshiya Loktantra: The Five-Yearly Democracy of the Third World
Democracy is not just voting; it's sustained citizen participation to ensure justice and accountability- Amartya Sen In many Third World countries, democracy has an odd five-year cycle. Election seasons provide…
US threatens to sanction International Criminal Court over war crimes charges against Netanyahu
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) formally charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Israeli genocide…
Trump, AUKUS and Australia’s Dim Servitors
There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended. There they were, happily funding, planning and preparing to…
United States’ Diplomacy- Gaza & Ukraine Crises!
President Joe Biden hardly appears inclined to consider any diplomatic solution to what may be viewed as perhaps the conflicts being in essence only being escalated further by role played…
The Rise of Musk and Trump: A New Era of Influence in American Politics
Whom did the US elect? The Republican ticket for the recent election featured Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Yet, November’s events painted a different picture, spotlighting another figure influencing the…
Life With and After Trump
How does one take seriously having a vaccine denier in charge of public health? How about having the world’s richest corporate owner in charge of cutting regulatory agencies? Or having the…
Canada Reinvents the Xenophobic Wheel
Bikram Singh is running out of time on his post-study work visa in Canada. Singh is one of about 70,000 migrants who were sold on the Canadian dream of eventually…
A Final Speech from the Great Disrupter (If Only in My Dreams)
My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral universe bends slow but…” My Facebook brims with exhortations…
Ukraine reportedly fires UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time
Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the UK were reported to have been used to target Russian territory for the first time on Wednesday. The strike took place just 24 hours…
Can Technology End Corruption?
KUALA LUMPUR – At the end of October, the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) held its annual meeting in Vienna. Representatives from 81 member states assessed progress on the organization’s mission…
Biden’s attempt to sabotage potential peace in Ukraine
Imagine that a presidential candidate and his team work very hard to win an election at least partially on the promise of ending a very dangerous war. They succeed, but…
A Peek into Putin’s Russia and the future of the war in Ukraine
A year before Yevgeny Prigozhin led his Wagner group of mercenaries in a mutiny against his patron President Putin in June 2023, a book came out in London revealing the …
The New York Times Attacks Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons, 70% of People in U.S. Want Talks to End the War in Ukraine
In an attack piece worthy of a sensational tabloid, the New York Times is training its fire on Tulsi Gabbard, president-elect Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence. Notably, the…
Authorizing strikes deep inside Russia, NATO powers seek to provoke escalation of war
The authorization by the Biden administration for Ukraine to use US long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russian territory marks a new and dangerous escalation in the US-NATO war against…
Allowing Deep Strikes into Russia at a Time of Improving Peace Prospects Shows a Shocking Disregard for Human Life
The US election results have been widely seen to have improved the prospects for ending the Ukraine war sooner rather than later. Whatever happens ultimately—and we should not exaggerate the…
Implications of a Second Trump Term for Working Class and Oppressed Peoples
There are numerous arguments being advanced as to the reasons behind the outcomes of the November 5 presidential and congressional elections which resulted in the declaration of former President Donald…
Trump vows military roundups of millions of immigrants
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he intends to declare a national emergency and use the US military to deport millions of migrants as soon as he takes office next January 20. Trump was quoting and…
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and…
In a major escalation, Biden authorizes long-range strikes inside Russia
With less than two months remaining in his term, US President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use US long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia, crossing a “red line”…
The US elections cast a shadow on global democracy
Many people, especially the democrats in the US, must have gone to be bed the day elections results were announced wondering just what hit them. For the last several months…
Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump
When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power…
Ruto’s Kenya
Since June’s anti-finance bill protests, dozens of people remain unaccounted for—a stark reminder of the Kenyan state’s long history of abductions and assassinations. Ruto’s government is abducting people every day.…
We Don’t Want Our Islands to Be Used to Kill People
Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the…
Jury awards $42 million to 3 Iraqis tortured in Abu Ghraib prison 20 years ago, holding US military contractor responsible
On November 12, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, returned a unanimous verdict for Abu Ghraib torture victims Salah Al-Ejaili, Suhail Al Shimari and Asa’ad Al-Zuba’e, awarding each $3 million…
Capitol Hill Remains Abuzz With Activism
It has become a familiar scene on Capitol Hill this short week in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election with activists swarming representatives’ offices seeking their support on numerous…
A Government for the World
Donald Trump’s latest rollout of his hyper nationalist “America First” policy underscores the world’s long-term slide toward catastrophe. Within nations, when conflicts inevitably erupt, there are laws, as well as police,…
The People’s Republic at 75: Thorny Transition, Unclear Destination
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The establishment of ‘New China’ was officially proclaimed in a mass ceremony held in…
Blinken Atrocious in a Dangerous World
It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of States the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a plasterwork that, from time…
Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era
I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about…
Glimpses of Everyday Imperialism at Work in the China-USA Trade Disputes
The U.S.-China Business Council report on "U.S. Exports to China 2023" reveals that $151.3 billion worth of American goods were exported to China, supporting over one million U.S. jobs. According…
The “historic comeback” of Donald Trump – Shock and Awe
Donald Trump is first and foremost his own mouthpiece, his own champion, his own chronicler. He owns his narrative from start to end. So, when he characterized his victory in…
The Choices That Australia Makes
If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Perth, Australia, you can overlook the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view. Across the bay, there is a phalanx…
They Were There First: Election Denialism, the Democratic Way
The scene is memorable enough. November 2016. The Twin Peaks Tavern, Castro District. Men gathered, beside themselves. “It’s shocking how those people voted him in,” splutters one over a Martini. …
The Trump Shock Is the Democrats’ Fault
BOSTON – The outcome of the US presidential election was more of a Democratic loss than a triumph for Donald Trump. The Democrats lost not because US President Joe Biden…
We need safe homes of course, but we also need a safe earth—linking local and global issues
Imagine a high-rise building with about 200 flats ( some big, some small) whose residents come to know that in nine flats so many bombs and explosives are stocked that…
The Remembrance Day Amnesia Racket
It was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive. It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. The First World War was a conflict that should never have…
Directly Challenging the US Empire, Capitalism, and the Global Climate Crisis: Thoughts on the Morning After the Night Before (a few days later)
Well, the Democrats failed to keep Donald Trump out of the presidency again. That’s going to hurt a lot of people. I assume most of us would prefer that he…
President Biden’s Gaza Policy Leaves the Middle East in Flames
President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was…
November 11 Is Armistice Day: Veterans Demand Ceasefire in Gaza
November 11, declared Armistice Day at the end of World War I, is celebrated in the U.S. as Veterans Day. Understanding why requires us to recall World War I and…
An independent platform is needed to articulate the best interests of Ukrainian people in difficult times
Ukraine’s people have experienced the most extreme distress in recent times, the kind of extreme distress that had not been since the Second World War. What is more, the future…
Cuba, buckle up! Trump elected US president
The people of the United States and most of the rest of the world woke up this week to the last news they wanted to hear. Not only had Donald…
Duma Boko Wins Botswana’s Presidency, Ending BDP’s 60-Year Rule
The historic political shift in Botswana following Duma Boko's election as president, ending nearly six decades of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) rule. Duma Boko was inaugurated as Botswana's new president…
Trump an Orgy in White Maleness
So much will be said about the Presidential elections of 2024. Democrats will reflect and inquire where they went wrong, and the various political pundits will claim that it was…
Everybody Knows: Do They?
“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied”– Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on Tuesday, November 5th, I was sound asleep, like a baby rocking…
A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?
As the dust settles over election day, it’s worth reflecting that it’s not only the election results that have been at stake, but the future of the presidency and its…
What Trump’s Return to Power Could Mean for India: A Closer Look
The prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency has sparked global discussions, and India is no exception. When it comes to Indian’ context, our nation carries unique implications.…
ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus: A Pathway or a Stumbling Block in Myanmar?
Several ASEAN member states have expressed considerable exasperation with Myanmar's military leadership, fervently calling for accountability and the reinstatement of democratic governance. The Member States of the Association of Southeast…
Trump has won what next
Trump has won the Presidential election of USA and will be the 47th President on 5th January 2025. The reason for his success are multiple: 1) Electorate doesn't like inflation,…
The Price of Eggs: Why Harris lost to Trump
It takes some skill to make Donald J. Trump look good. Two Democrats have succeeded in doing so: Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024. The conceit of…
Let Us Eat Cake!
They attribute the famous quote ' Let them eat cake' to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not…
Capitalism Won the US Election
by Ellen Isaacs and Karyn Pomerantz I must admit that we were surprised at the outcome of the election. We thought that Trump’s overt racism against so many groups and…
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