Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
After the Iron Curtain bisected Germany in 1949 and Americans directed the nation’s Cold War reconstruction it was a kind of mutilation — on maps, but also in psyches.
AU ELECTION: While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts and components for weapons and equipment that are being used in the genocide in Gaza, writes Kellie Tranter.
This is bigger than what happened in Milwaukee, says Andrew P. Napolitano. The White House is assaulting the separation of powers and the concept of federalism.
AU ELECTION: Israel has no right of self-defence against resistance in lands that are illegally occupied, says John Menadue.
AU ELECTION: Running against Anthony Albanese in the Australian prime minister’s Sydney district on Saturday is the unlikely figure of a two-time, Oscar-nominated film director who’s mad as hell and can’t take it anymore.
In the latest tensions between India and Pakistan the reverberations of the British Empire can be seen extending their evil over generations.
Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure.
AU ELECTION: With the federal government covering for them, a Canberra-based company has supplied lethal weapons to a country accused of war crimes and genocide, Michelle Fahy reports.
For the second year in a row, military outlays rose in all five of the world’s geographical regions amid world-wide tensions, finds the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon who has provided medical care in Gaza twice since Israel’s genocide began, describes the human suffering and total destruction of the medical system he witnessed there.
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.
The mass-scale psychological manipulation is so pervasive that only a small minority are reacting to history’s first live-streamed genocide with an appropriate level of horror.
Israel may not be visible at the nuclear negotiating table, as U.S.-Iran talks resume on Saturday, but its influence over the outcome is palpable, writes M. Reza Behnam.
The university’s reprisal against Yalies4Palestine followed campus protests against the visit to New Haven by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s extremist police minister, Sharon Zhang reports.
U.N. chief António Guterres called on the countries to resolve matters peacefully after the nuclear-armed neighbors began reacting to the attack in a popular tourism area.
During the ongoing wars of Israeli expansionism in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon, the absence of large, sustainable protests in numerous Arab capitals is notable.
The Silicon Valley giant’s deal with the U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity company deepens its links with former members of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals intelligence group, Alan MacLeod reports.
Ullekh NP reports on fears in Moldova that the Zelensky government in Ukraine, in its search for hydro power on the lower Dniester River, is starting to claim a chunk of its neighboring ally.
The Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now.