By Thomas Gift* – The Conversation Harvard University is suing the Trump administration over its unprecedented attempt to bar international students from its campus. The latest salvo is that the administration has said it is cancelling all federal funds…
By Lorenzo Tondo* in Jerusalem – The Guadian Leader from 2006 to 2009 says Palestinian victims are at ‘monstrous proportions’ and Netanyahu heads a ‘criminal gang’ The former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, and…
By Ashley Gate* and William D. Hartung* – TomDispatch Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S.
By Nico Acosta* – Asia Times Strategy includes tapping Paraguay power for US data centers and Triple Frontier cooperation in chasing phantom terrorists In May 2025, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly touted the idea of using Paraguay’s surplus electricity…
By Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian An air of complicity has prompted new rhetoric from UK and EU leaders. But it won’t redeem them – or change history’s course Why now?
Polychroniou* – Common Dreams The way out of neoliberal globalization is by developing a new globalization that is democratic and free from the destructive tendencies of capitalist accumulation. The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding…
By Greg Grandin* – TomDispatch Then (the New World) and Now (Israel) Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him…
By Kenneth Roth* – The Guardian Critics of Israel’s atrocious conduct in Gaza should be clear that their focus is the authors of that violence – not Israeli civilians Israel’s campaign of bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza is inexcusable. It reflects a massive…
By Kirsten Stade* and Alan Ware* – Inter Press Service (IPS) As the United States lurches toward isolationism and authoritarianism, its political problems are now bleeding into pocketbook anxieties that Trump’s policies will torpedo economic growth, both…
By Roger Southall* – The Conversation South Africans are wearily attuned to governments’ Orwellian misuse of language. After all, South Africa is a country where a one-time government passed a law (the Natives Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents Act of…
