By Isa Ferrero* – The Wire, India The US – as well as European powers like France and Germany – continue to sell arms and pour fuel on the humanitarian disaster in Yemen. Late last year, in the waning days… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad(*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post If you’re like me, you were probably flooded with jubilant messages and memes about the end of 2020. Our black swan year of crisis and calamity, plague and polarization, is over. And in… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* It will be quite different from the one with the Soviet Union While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical realignment has been taking shape in the world, and it will become… Continue Reading
By Simon Tisdall* – The Guardian The outgoing US president has his eyes on a Saudi Arabia-Israel accord – no matter who gets hurt Peace deals that entrench injustice, punish the weak and are propelled by greed, blackmail and weapons… Continue Reading
TomDispatch* Hmmm… let me see if I’ve gotten this straight. In his last days in office, Donald Trump is “ending” America’s forever wars (as he long promised he would do) by leaving 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan, a similar number… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter , Independent Media Institute Ten years ago, a hawker in Tunisia set himself on fire, which spurred on people along the entire Mediterranean Sea—from Morocco to Spain—to rise up in revolt. They took to their squares indignant at… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Guests : Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian diplomat and scholar. In a deal brokered by the Trump administration, Morocco and Israel have agreed to establish diplomatic relations. The United States has also agreed to recognize Morocco’s… Continue Reading
Al Jazeera Abiy rules out dialogue with TPLF during meeting with three AU envoys, a day after he announced ‘final phase’ of three-week conflict. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has again ruled out dialogue with the leaders of the defiant… Continue Reading
Editorial Hundreds have already died. The dangers are multiplying for the country and the region On Tuesday, two weeks after launching military action, the Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, announced a “final and conclusive” push against the Tigray People’s Liberation… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures In 2005, in a speech delivered in front of Russia’s Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in Russia’s history. What he… Continue Reading
By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International There are no signs of a halt There are no signs of a halt to the arms race… on the contrary, production of the most modern 5th and 6th generation technological weapons and the most… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in history. Though it may not be true of all of history, it is certainly true of modern… Continue Reading
Nadia Batok* The arms race is increasingly becoming a world-wide phenomenon, with spending by developing countries having increased over the last eight years from about seven billion dollars to about 45 billion dollars. For years the world has been diverting… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* – Other News The creation of a Palestinian State remains a pipe-dream After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, The League of Nations mandated that Britain administer Palestine. The London administration was… Continue Reading
By Raja Shehadeh – The Guardian Israel has twisted its laws and contorted its politics to protect the occupation. The UAE and Bahrain deals won’t create peace More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback and James Carden (*) Independent Media Institute Trump’s rise has led to unity in the ranks opposing his foreign policy The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have thrown… Continue Reading
Observer Editorial Last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the UAE does nothing to solve the Palestine impasse The principal authors of last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – Donald Trump,… Continue Reading
By Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised Who could be against an announcement of peace between two nations… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the… Continue Reading
