By Haviv Rettig Gur* – The Times of Israel The firing of Defense Minister Gallant brings to a climax an astonishingly fast and wholly self-inflicted collapse of the Israeli right The Israeli right is gripped in a deep malaise. It has its argument about the over-powerful High Court. It believes...

By David Scott Mathieson* – Asia Times Armed Forces Day celebrates a neo-medieval army that commits war crimes against its own people as standard operating procedure The Myanmar military staged its annual Armed Forces Day event today (March 27), celebrating its 78th year of destroying a country they have sworn to...

By Craig Murray* – Consortium News To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger. I am completely at a loss as to why the U.K. should seek to...

By Eve Ottenberg* -The CounterPunch website  Years pass and Julian Assange languishes in a dungeon. His crime? Well, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, but he had the intolerable courage to embarrass the U.S. military and national security state, by reporting on how American soldiers murdered Iraqis for sport....

By Daniel F. Runde* – Newsweek If we are approaching a second Cold War, this time with China and other strategic competitors, most of the action will take place in the realms of diplomacy, development, and economics. China certainly thinks so. Earlier this month, China announced a 12 percent increase...