By José Carlos Llerena Robles and Vijay Prashad (*) – Globetrotter.Independent Media Institute The campaign to overturn Peru’s presidential election results is one of “unconventional warfare.” Half an hour’s taxi ride from the House of Pizarro, the presidential palace in Lima…
By Justin Spike – !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday became the first leader from Central or Western Europe to make the list of “press freedom predators” compiled by France-based free press organization Reporters…
By Ben Cohen* – The Toronto Star Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, 53, was assassinated at his private home Wednesday in a “highly co-ordinated attack by a highly trained and heavily armed group,” according to interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph. The assailants remain…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch Three-Quarters of a Century of Nuclear Follies — And That’s Just Where to Begin Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else could you think, if you read H.G.
By Thomas Neuburger* – God`Spies This is the state we defend when we defend the state. It looks like the U.S. government’s case against Julian Assange is falling apart. One of its most important witnesses has now confessed to lying. Via the late Robert Parry’s site, Consortium…
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Andrew Bacevich, president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
By John Washington* – The Nation A decade after the first shots were fired, cities are in ruins, over half a million Syrians have died, and more than ten million have been displaced “Bombing, bombing, bombing”—that’s how Ahmad Yassin Leila recently described the whirlwind…
By Michela Wrong – The London Review of Books Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad The theme? of the latest Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (it was meant to take place in June but has been postponed because…
By John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the reasons why the institution of war continues to threaten human civilization and the biosphere, and the steps that might be taken to rid the world of war…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2021 (IPS) – When the UN’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict was released last week, it was expected to “name and shame” some of the world’s worst human rights violators – particularly the abusers of children. But these violators…
