By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website One particularly bad habit the news is afflicted by is a tendency to fall into discussions about itself.  Its members, some of them at least, used to call it the “Fourth Estate,” an unelected chamber of scribblers supposedly meant to keep an eye on the...

By Emily Tamkin*- The New Republic The central European country isn’t exactly the right-wing paradise many Republicans portray it as “Keep on fighting, Mr. President!” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told former U.S. President Donald Trump in a tweet in April. “Come back, Mr. President!” he said a month later,...

By Vijay Prashad – Zoe Alexandra (*) – Globettroter / Independent Media Institute  In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Colonel Assimi Goïta, the head of the transitional...

Editorial – The Guardian New research exposes the growing influence of the radical right on more mainstream forces. A counteroffensive is overdue The taxation of property in the eastern German state of Thuringia would normally be a subject of strictly local concern. But last week a vote to cut stamp...

By Michael von der Schulenburg* – MEER German peace proposal for Ukraine that could save us all from an all-out war At the end of August this year, four highly respected German personalities1 presented a peace proposal for ending the war in Ukraine through a ceasefire and subsequent peace negotiations: It is arguably...