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Finishing What the World Started at the UN Ocean Conference
NICE – As the sun sets on the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, there is much to celebrate, but also much unfinished business for the world to address at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil,…
No Kings, No Constitution: West Asian Conflicts and the Slow Fire of American Democracy
As West Asia erupts under the strain of imperialist interventions, the flames of external conflict are mirrored by a slow, internal combustion within American democracy itself. The nation finds itself caught in a grim tension, between the fire of external…
Israel’s Façade of Democracy: A Manufactured Image
For over seven decades, Israel has projected itself as a beacon of democracy and civilization, grounded in religious and historical narratives. But this self-image, amplified by powerful Western allies and media, is a carefully curated illusion. Beneath the surface lies…
Tibet’s “self-determination”, imperiled by imperialism, not by China
Zhou En-lai, Panchen Lama, Mao Zedong and the Dalai Lama in Beijing, China in 1955. From July 1954 to June 1955 , Dalai Lama visited China for peace talks and met with Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping.…
How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More
At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of…
Those who seek to destroy must know that acts of destruction have seeds of self-destruction in them
Those who seek to destroy others must realize that deliberate efforts to destroy others have the seeds of self-destruction in them. While this can be understood at several levels, the most obvious is that all human beings have varying levels…
Countercurrents Webinar “Israel: The Horror Show of White Settler Colonialism”
Countercurrents.org is organising a webinar in honour of K.P Sasi well-known filmmaker and social activist and an Associate Editor of Countercurrents.org on June 22, 2025. The topic is “Israel: The Horror Show of White Settler Colonialism” Date: June 22, 2025Time:…
Deadly Israeli Attack: 59 Starving Aid Seekers Killed While Waiting for Food in Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- 59 aid seekers have been killed and hundreds more injured, dozens critically, after an Israeli attack targeted a starving crowd waiting for food in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, amid a weeks-long Israeli blockade that has…
Temba Bavuma Wasn’t Meant to Win the WTC – Until He Did
Within cricket's revered and storied past, tears have long been the messengers of joy and sorrow. In November 2023, at Eden Gardens, as Temba Bavuma left the field in the wake of South Africa's crushing World Cup semi-final defeat, every…
The Folly of A War With Iran
The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into…
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