By Medea Benjamin*, Nicolas J.S. Davies* – Common Dreams The U.S., U.K., Canadian, and other governments remain deeply complicit in Israel’s atrocities and violations of international law.
Whitehead* and Nisha Whitehead* – CounterPunch Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming…
Polychroniou* – Common Dreams There is an emerging consensus among European policymakers and experts alike that Trump wants to do to the E.U. what he is doing to the U.S.—destroy its civil society. The European Union came into existence in 1992 with the signing of…
By Damien Gayle* – The Guardian Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflict A global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according to researchers who say the…
Reza Behnam* – CounterPunch As the world watches, one of history’s greatest crimes has taken form. Inaction, complicity and silence in the face of genocide have caused profound suffering to the Palestinian people. No final reckoning or redress would be equivalent to…
By Dafydd Townley* – The Conversation Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth The American Revolution was a result of the tyranny experienced by colonists under the British monarchy. Many Americans had fled from Europe where they…
By Kari Mugo* – Africa Is a Country A lack of reliable statistics and coherent strategy to address femicide in Kenya, has left a culture of everyday insecurity for women in the country. When I moved to South Africa in 2021, the country ranked among the deadliest places in the…
By Alon Ben-Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ For over a year, I refused to ascribe Israel’s war against Hamas and the reign of horror it is inflicting on the Palestinians in Gaza as genocide, but now I feel shaken to the core by what I am witnessing. If what I see is not…
By Andrea Umbrello* – Truethout A migrant detention deal between Italy and Albania is part of a global trend that tramples on the right to asylum. Each year, thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea in the hope of finding refuge in Europe.
By Shafraz Rasheed* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) The ocean holds the answer. The rise of nationalist leaders epitomized by Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, cuts to UN climate funding, and dismissal of multilateralism as “globalist” interference has…
