By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox (*) – TomDispatch Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto, during the desperate Jewish uprising on 19 April 1943, and the images we see today of the Gaza Strip. The fate…
By Newsroom – Modern Diplomacy Following reports of continued fighting between government troops and local militias in Ethiopia, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide is sounding the alarm about the heightened risk of genocide and related atrocity…
The Conversation, Interview: Simon Mabon* The surprise attack by Hamas launched on Israel on October 7 has already led to thousands of deaths in both Israel and Gaza, and sparked concerns that the conflict could escalate across the Middle East. An expert in the politics…
Reich* – AlterNet I’m feeling much better (thank you for your well wishes). But my COVID would have been far worse if I’d had no vaccinations and hence no immunity.
Editorial – The Guardian Victory and a third term for the radical right Law and Justice party would give it the chance to complete an illiberal takeover of the state As the most consequential Polish election campaign since the fall of communism got into its stride this summer…
By Chris Hedges* / Original to ScheerPost The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape America. The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt…
Editorial Board – Haaretz, Israel The danger looming over Israel in recent years has been fully realized. A prime minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot look after state affairs, as national interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him from a possible…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Since 1964, most of the countries in the Sahel region (a word of Arabic origin, meaning margin, which refers to the northern strip of sub-Saharan Africa) have experienced one or more coups d’état (17 in Sudan alone). Those that have occurred more…
By Scott Ritter* – Special to Consortium News The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As the scope and…
