By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com The unfinished struggle for equality. Purple banners rippled through the streets of Berlin, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Nairobi as thousands gathered to mark International Women’s Day on March 8.
By Joseph Bouchard* – Responsible Statecraft It is important not to see them as separate operations: Venezuela was very much a precursor to regime change in Tehran. When the news broke that a U.S. military operation had kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas…
By Michael von der Schulenburg* – Meer Why the U.S. and Israel risk repeating the catastrophic mistakes of Iraq. In the Western world today, there are an alarming number of politicians and media outlets that justify or even welcome military action by the United States and Israel…
By Branko Marcetic* – Jacobin American political leaders are openly stating that the United States is fighting Iran for Israel. For decades, journalists, analysts, and activists worked painstakingly to uncover and prove the way that Israel leverages its “special relationship”…
By Nick Turse* – The Intercept An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations. At the inaugural meeting of his self-styled Board of Peace earlier this month, Donald Trump declared peace in the Middle East…
By Aitor Hernández-Morales* – Politico The Socialist prime minister has slammed the conflict as unjustified and illegal, and now his criticism has sparked the threat of a trade war from the U.S. president. Only one EU leader has dared to directly challenge U.S.
By Chris Stokel-Walker* – The Guardian The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it. There are a lot of things that AI can do.
By Ameer Al-Auqaili* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) The killing of Ayatollah Khamenei will not necessarily lead to the transformation of Iran. President Donald Trump has repeatedly described Iran as a serious and immediate threat to U.S. interests, signaling a willingness to…
By Gideon Levy* – Pearls and Irritations* Israel has once again entered war to solve its “existential problems once and for all”. History suggests those promises of total victory rarely survive contact with reality.
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams Let us be clear about what the United States and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony.
