Editorial Board – Haaretz, Israel The danger looming over Israel in recent years has been fully realized. A prime minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot look after state affairs, as national interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him from a possible…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Since 1964, most of the countries in the Sahel region (a word of Arabic origin, meaning margin, which refers to the northern strip of sub-Saharan Africa) have experienced one or more coups d’état (17 in Sudan alone). Those that have occurred more…
By Scott Ritter* – Special to Consortium News The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As the scope and…
By Jason C Mueller* – Asia Times Despite one of US military’s greatest fiascoes, American troops are still in Somalia fighting an endless and unjustifiable war on ‘terrorism’ Thirty years after the infamous Battle of Mogadishu, the US military is still conducting operations in…
By Caitlin Johnstone* — Consortium News It’s not just a man who is imprisoned for the crime of good journalism, but also the idea that anyone should be permitted to expose the criminality of the world’s most powerful and tyrannical people As the 17th anniversary of the creation…
By Newsroom – Modern Diplomacy Continuing violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations, a UN-appointed independent expert said on Tuesday.“Women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and…
By Fanni Toth, Gerhard Schnyder and Marlene Radl (*) – The Conversation Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning elections. In the last few years, Europe has seen the rise of a…
By Dae-Han Song* – Globetrotter Recently, in Taiwan, the government unveiled its first home-built submarine. In Japan, the government will upgrade civilian airports and seaports to dual military use in preparation for conflict in Taiwan. The U.S. and…
By Ellen Brown* – Global Research The derivatives bubble is often estimated to exceed one quadrillion dollars (a quadrillion is 1,000 trillion). The entire GDP of the world is estimated at $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; and the collective…
Yeo* – Modern Diplomacy Over the last decades, the coup d’états have been a recurrent feature in the political landscape of sub-Saharan African countries. Often due to a rise of corruption and poverty, the coup d’états in Africa are even more complicated with the Cold War…
