By Vijay Prashad* – Tricontinental A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year. Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if…
By Norman Solomon* – Common Dreams During this century, in the Middle East, the U.S.-Israel duo has vastly outdone all other entities combined in the categories of killing, maiming, and terrorizing. For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the…
By Lawrence S. Wittner* – Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF)* And will it take another world war to swing the world back to internationalism?
Harris* and John Perry* – Counterpunch With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.” And now with the neocon…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com A New Scramble, A New Sovereignty A quiet yet profound transformation is underway in Africa. While U.S. headlines remain preoccupied with Ukraine, Taiwan, and election cycles, a geopolitical reordering is playing out on a continent long…
Program on the Fraternal Economy of Integral and Sustainable Development. We have arrived at a pivot of history.
By Stephen Prager* – Pearls and Irritations “There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one,” wrote Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz this past weekend. The Israeli Knesset hosted a conference on Tuesday in which far-right politicians and…
Dosson* – Modern Diplomacy Fukuyama’s triumphalist “end of history” now reads as a cautionary tale, as we reach the limits of the democratic-neoliberal order and confront the return of geopolitics in an increasingly unstable, multipolar world. In his 1992 book The End of…
By Natricia Duncan* – The Guardian PM of St Vincent and the Grenadines says ruling will strengthen the Caribbean’s negotiating power when it comes to climate change reparations. Leaders in the Caribbean have hailed the outcome of the international court of justice…
By Jamie Dettmer* – Politico After gutting two key anti-corruption agencies, Kyiv’s democratic backsliding has finally caught the world’s attention. As a democratic state, Ukraine is under assault from two sources. Its first and most obvious adversary is Moscow, which has…
