by Chris Hedges* – ScheerPost “This is a sermon I gave on Sunday Aug. 20 in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture).
By Michael von der Schulenburg* – MEER This article is a contribution to the German peace movement’s pamphlet on the occasion of this year’s Anti-War Day on September 1st. On this day, 84 years ago, the German Reich marched into Poland and ignited the Second World War, bringing…
By Nadia Batok* – MEER Civilization can’t be built on millions of dead Wars bring out the worst in people and destroy the very foundation of humanity. Wars are barbaric and bring only death and destruction. Battles unleash the beasts in people.
Flassbeck economics* At the end of December 2021, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the biggest fiscal debacle in recent history, I wrote an article about Argentina with a colleague in which we resignedly stated that there was no light on the horizon of this country. We…
by Hans Kundnani*- The Guardian The EU likes to celebrate itself as a place where borders are soft and ‘regionalism’ creates diversity and openness. But just as much as any powerful nation, Europe defines itself against the rest of the world Many “pro-Europeans” – that is…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.” Ukraine’s fall 2022 counteroffensive…
By Robin Jaspert* – Jacobin AN INTERVIEW WITH PAVAL, VATROSLAV AND YANIRA In June, Italy’s government impounded the Sea-Eye 4 rescue ship for 20 days as part of a crackdown on NGOs that save migrants’ lives at sea. Crew members told Jacobin why they won’t be intimidated by…
By Sahar Fetrat* – Newsweek It’s hard to believe that two years have already gone by since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. Time is not linear; for women and girls in Afghanistan, it has been two long years of constant loss, and two full years of fighting back using the few…
By Chandra Muzaffar-CounterPunch website The situation in Niger is still in flux. On 26 July 2023 a military coup took place in that West African state that led to the ouster of its elected President, Mohamed Bazoum, by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani.
By Ralph Nader* – Common Dreams The Biden administration has no diplomatic strategies, no demand for an immediate unconditional ceasefire followed by top-level peace negotiations Russia’s criminal war in Ukraine intensifies as it grinds on, World War I style with heavy…
