By Amer Ababakr* – Modern Diplomacy The Middle East and the Gulf regions are experiencing a political and diplomatic movement that they have not witnessed in the last three or four decades. Behind this movement are the influential states such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran…
by Bethan McKernan – The Guardian Israeli prime minister looks out of touch in his handling of response to the country’s latest political crisis The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, kept the country waiting all day, but in the end, when he finally announced a…
By Caitlin Johnstone* – Consortium News The facts are in and the case is closed: U.S. unipolar hegemony is unsustainable. The problem is that the U.S. empire itself does not know this.
By Nathan Akehurst* – Progressive International A special EU summit in Brussels last month committed to increasing funds for border surveillance and the deportation of refugees. It’s the latest in Europe’s ongoing project of hardening its borders in flagrant disregard for human…
By Haviv Rettig Gur* – The Times of Israel The firing of Defense Minister Gallant brings to a climax an astonishingly fast and wholly self-inflicted collapse of the Israeli right The Israeli right is gripped in a deep malaise. It has its argument about the over-powerful High…
By David Scott Mathieson* – Asia Times Armed Forces Day celebrates a neo-medieval army that commits war crimes against its own people as standard operating procedure The Myanmar military staged its annual Armed Forces Day event today (March 27), celebrating its 78th year of…
By Craig Murray* – Consortium News To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger.
By Eve Ottenberg* -The CounterPunch website Years pass and Julian Assange languishes in a dungeon. His crime? Well, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, but he had the intolerable courage to embarrass the U.S. military and national security state, by reporting on how…
Runde* – Newsweek If we are approaching a second Cold War, this time with China and other strategic competitors, most of the action will take place in the realms of diplomacy, development, and economics. China certainly thinks so.
By David Grossman* If Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition have their way, my country could deteriorate into a dictatorship. Israel now finds itself in one of the gravest crises it has ever known. Even after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the dangers the…
