By Robert Reich* Friends, Henry Kissinger has died, at the age of 100. When a former high government official as well known as Kissinger passes, the conventional response is to say nice things about what they accomplished. I’m sorry but I cannot.
By Cas Mudde *- The Guardian As mainstream politics has shifted to the right, once-fringe parties are gaining support – and moving closer to government The turning point in Geert Wilders’ path to Dutch electoral triumph (if not power) is now thought to have been the…
Michael Hager*- CounterPunch website Israel’s seven-week campaign of retribution for the October 7 massacre has killed untold thousands of Palestinian women and children in Gaza. It has also diverted world attention from Ukraine, where the 22-month trench war drags on into…
By Paul Fishstein* – The Globalist Are we dealing with yet another Afghan refugee crisis? Or an ongoing one?
by Nick Corbishley – Naked Capitalism If Pedro Sánchez were to actually deliver on his word (which is a pretty big “IF”), Spain would become only the second country to recognise Palestinian statehood while being an EU Member State During a tour of Israel and Palestine last week…
Jonathan Gornall* – Asia Times Right-wing politicians are peddling the false trope that migrants are taking ‘our’ jobs and housing In The Netherlands, a formerly fringe far-right party wins more seats in the Dutch general election than any other political group…
By Jasmin Gueta- Haaretz, Israel After Likud Minister Shlomo Karhi proposed financial penalties against Haaretz for what he termed ‘lying, defeatist propaganda,’ prominent journalists slam the Netanyahu government’s latest attack on the free press in Israel Israel’s…
By Newsroom – Modern Diplomacy More than 50 countries are supporting Ukraine. Yet Ukraine’s existential struggle in Europe’s largest war since 1945 currently hinges mainly on two countries.
By Paul Taylor* – The Guardian Enlargement may offer Europe greater security, but its price is change with daunting financial and political costs European Union leaders are coming around to the geopolitical necessity of embracing Ukraine, Moldova and western Balkan countries as…
By Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner (*) – Common Dreams With Palestinians, UN officials, humanitarian experts and internationally known genocide scholars naming Israel’s bombardment and blockade as genocide, the violence simply must stop. That is only possible…
