Prabir Purkayastha* – Newsclick and Globetrotter. We celebrate World Press Freedom Day in May as a reminder that the role of news organizations is to speak truth to power.
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – Codepink In his 1987 book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the United States was facing after a century of international dominance was “relative and not absolute, and…
Editorial – The Guardian Sports stars and business people are embracing the kingdom again, but human rights abuses continue four years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder The journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October…
By Wolfgang Streeck*- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Italians, it is said, are given to a perspective on politics that they call dietrismo. Dietro means behind, and dietrismo means a habitualized conviction that what you see is designed to hide what you get, by…
Bhadrakumar* – Asia Times Modi government’s ‘de-ideologized’ foreign policy irks US while seeking larger strategic and security role in a new multipolar order Most relationships undergo a transition with the passage of time from appreciation of each other to a “state of having,”…
By Gilbert Achcar* – TRUTHOUT The U.S.’s rejection of China’s proposal for a negotiated settlement reveals that it is drawing benefits from the war. The way President Joe Biden’s administration reacted to China’s offer to facilitate a political settlement of the Ukraine…
By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website However described, the shabby treatment of Julian Assange never ceases to startle. While he continues to suffer in Belmarsh prison awaiting the torments of an interminable legal process, more material is coming out showing…
Authors: Kristian Gustafson*/ Dan Lomas*/ Neveen S Abdalla*/ Steven Wagner*/ – The Conversation After more than a week of intense fighting between Sudanese government troops and paramilitary forces in Khartoum, many western countries – including the US…
By Ali M Latifi * in Kabul – Middle East Eye UN officials are meeting in Doha to discuss Afghanistan’s challenges. A group of prominent Afghans say outreach to the Taliban should be discussed As the United Nations convenes…
BY ALFRED MCCOY* – TomDispatch Tectonic Eruptions in Eurasia Erode America’s Global Power From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like a Titan of Greek legend, unharmed and…
