By Joshua Scheer* – ScheerPost Pope Leo XIV is warning that artificial intelligence, if left in the hands of profit-hungry corporations and unaccountable tech oligarchs, could unleash a “social calamity” by replacing human work. And now even the markets are beginning to price in…
By Nicolas J S Davies* – CounterPunch On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the two sides are still very far apart, on nuclear enrichment, on control of the Strait of Hormuz, on…
By Stasa Salacanin* – The Cradle Built for rapid victories, Tel Aviv now wagers its future on endless mobilization, wider buffer zones, and the impossible promise of absolute safety. Israel’s evolving doctrine of “permanent security” rests on a profound strategic paradox.
By John Perry* and Roger D. Harris* – Common Dreams If no-holds-barred measures were deployed in the Honduran elections, they might be anticipated on a much bigger scale, again with little restraint, when the prizes could be Latin America’s biggest economies.  …
By Thant Myint-U* – Foreign Affairs War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations. The long peace of the past eight decades has rested on two revolutionary convictions: that wars of aggression are intolerable and that empires must end.
By Thomas Fazi* – UnHerd Trump has once again sent Europeans scrambling. This time, he has announced the withdrawal of around 5,000 soldiers from Germany as part of a Pentagon decision triggered by the president’s public dispute with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the…
By Rameen Siddiqui* – Modern Diplomacy As one analyst put it, Trump went to Beijing as a tradesman to sell airplanes. Putin went as a strategic partner to reaffirm an alliance.
By Joshua Scheer* – ScheerPost “Don’t Be Bothered by Their Screams”: Ben-Gvir Proudly Posts Video of Police Dragging Members of the Flotilla Team. Ben-Gvir himself reportedly captioned the footage, “That’s how we welcome terror supporters.
By Nicholas Greven*- Jacobin Washington has spent decades protecting Cuban exile terrorists while criminalizing Cuba’s response to them. The indictment of Raúl Castro is the latest chapter in that story — and a pretext for something much worse.
By Jawad Khalid* – Common Dreams Reinvesting just 15% of global military spending, roughly $387 billion, would be more than enough to cover the annual costs of climate adaptation in developing countries. The money exists.
