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 The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The British recently finished building two new aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales. Last week, Britain announced that one of the carriers would be based in the Pacific. Obviously, the… Continue Reading
By Sam Bahour* – The Guardian It won’t halt Israel’s annexation plans, but it would be a vital step in the right direction at a perilous moment Israel’s annexation of the West Bank will be yet another tragedy for Palestinians… Continue Reading
Editorial Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans will compound the suffering of Palestinians. International condemnation should be accompanied by consequences Annexation looks like the executioner of the two-state solution. Israel has changed the facts on the ground, with the rapid growth of settlements… Continue Reading
The Economist The border affray is a sign of worrying military escalation between Asia’s giants THE TWO armies each had guns, artillery and tanks to the rear. But they wielded only sticks and stones at the front, as night fell… Continue Reading
The Economist Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, envisages a more global alliance EVEN AS IT grapples with short-term troubles, among them another spat between America and Germany, NATO is starting to plan for the next ten years: how to adapt to… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* Forty years ago, Marshal Josip Broz Tito died in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to be buried in Belgrade in the largest state funeral in history with the attendance of representatives from 128 countries: 4 kings, 31 presidents, 6 princes,… Continue Reading
By Adam Taylor* – The Washington Post China’s ongoing border clash with India may seem remote, but it has global impact. Reports say thousands of troops moved into the disputed area 14,000 feet up in the Himalayas after skirmishes broke… Continue Reading
By Shaiel Ben-Ephraim* — Asia Times The Israeli prime minister plans to realize a US-backed blueprint before the end of Trump’s first term The negotiations were long and torturous but finally Knesset chairman Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Continue Reading
By Cecilia Capanna* – IlDigitale.it Covid-19 spreads all over the world, WHO declares it’s a pandemic. A global overview on how Countries are dealing with the emergency. March 2020, Covid-19 spreads all over the world: it’s a pandemic. People everywhere… Continue Reading
By Saber Azam* GENEVA, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) – The fourth and last presidential election in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019 was yet another setback to the democratic process. Not only did it take months for the Independent Election Commission… Continue Reading
By Sam Hill* – Newsweek On February 29 in Doha, Qatar, the U.S. signed a peace agreement with the Taliban. Each side gets what it wants most. The US gets to bring home the 12,000 US troops stationed in Afghanistan,… Continue Reading
Barry R. Posen* – Boston Review Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it The Prussian strategic theorist Carl von Clausewitz once observed that… Continue Reading
By M.K. Bhadrakumar* – Independent Media Institute The chasm between illusion and reality in politics remains perennial. Wars seldom ended according to the script of peace agreements. The fall of Saigon in April 1975 ending the Vietnam War, with defeated Americans hastily… Continue Reading
John Nichols*- The Nation Eight Republican senators join Democrats to declare that Trump has no authority to attack Iran without congressional approval. If senators took their oaths seriously, votes to assert Congress’s authority in matters of war and peace would… Continue Reading
By Cora Weiss* NEW YORK, Feb 12 2020 (IPS) – 75 years ago following the end of the Second World War and the first time any state has dropped an atomic bomb, not once, but twice, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,… Continue Reading
BY NETA C. CRAWFORD* – THE CONVERSATION The figure includes $838 billion in “emergency” and “overseas contingency operation” funding and $59 billion spent by the State Department and USAID on Iraq and Syria Even if the U.S. administration decided to leave — or was evicted… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6 2020 (IPS) – The world’s young activists, numbering over 3.8 billion, are on the war path. The rising new socialist movements—which originated with “Black Lives Matter” and “Occupy Wall Street” (one protester’s slogan… Continue Reading
By Prabir Purkayastha*- Independent Media Institute With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—more commonly known as the Iran accord—we all enter into a heightened zone of danger. Trump is threatening a war on Iran through… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post President Trump called his plan for Middle East “peace” an “unprecedented” development that swept past “even the most well-intentioned plans” of his predecessors. It is in keeping with the guiding animus of his… Continue Reading
