Editorial – The Guardian With no roadmap for peace, Israel risks being compared to the old South Africa It was a deliberate provocation by B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights group, to describe the Palestinians in the Holy Land as living… Continue Reading
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 George Friedman * – Geopolitical Futures As of Jan. 1, Britain has completed the process of leaving the European Union. The EU has assured all that dire consequences will haunt the British. Certainly, there will be economic consequences for… 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
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
By Diego Lopes da Silva* STOCKHOLM, Nov 27 2020 (IPS) – Autocracies are once again the global majority. The 2020 Democracy Report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-DEM), ‘Autocratization surges, resistance grows’, raises the alarm that while the world… 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 Justin Podur* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute The Minneapolis City Council’s attempt to defund police may have fizzled out for the moment, but the problem of police violence across the United States is unresolved—and much of it stems from the institution’s… 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
The National Security Archive – George Washington University Edited by Peter Kornbluh —————————- Nixon’s “Make the Economy Scream” Order issued 50 years ago Genesis of Nixon’s Infamous Regime Change Directive on Chile Recorded in Declassified Documentation Washington, D.C., September 15, 2020… Continue Reading
By Paul Jay – theAnalysis.news After three postponed elections, a date is finally set after pressure from protests across the country. Why did Evo step down? How did the conditions for the coup develop? Carlos Orias and Tony Phillips join… Continue Reading
By Paul Jay * – TheAnalysis.news Paul Jay Hi, my name is Paul Jay, and welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. It’s not often I get a chance to talk to an American general, okay, I’ve never had a chance to talk… Continue Reading
By David H. Freedman – Newsweek Jamaal Bowman, a progressive, scored an upset victory over incumbent Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The primary took place on June 23rd, but the contest wasn’t officially decided until more than… Continue Reading
By Arun Gupta* – The Intercept Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty agrees with other elected officials in Oregon who say federal police dispatched to the city by President Donald Trump are an “occupying army,” represent “a blatant abuse of power,”… Continue Reading
Michelle Goldberg’s opinion – The New York Times The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the bestselling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of a small flood of titles meant… 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
