By David Scott Mathieson* – Asia Times Armed Forces Day celebrates a neo-medieval army that commits war crimes against its own people as standard operating procedure The Myanmar military staged its annual Armed Forces Day event today (March 27), celebrating its 78th year of…
By Craig Murray* – Consortium News To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger.
By Eve Ottenberg* -The CounterPunch website Years pass and Julian Assange languishes in a dungeon. His crime? Well, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, but he had the intolerable courage to embarrass the U.S. military and national security state, by reporting on how…
Runde* – Newsweek If we are approaching a second Cold War, this time with China and other strategic competitors, most of the action will take place in the realms of diplomacy, development, and economics. China certainly thinks so.
By David Grossman* If Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition have their way, my country could deteriorate into a dictatorship. Israel now finds itself in one of the gravest crises it has ever known. Even after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the dangers the…
By Jeremy Lissouba* – Modern Diplomacy More than one year since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the world remains caught in the middle. Against a backdrop of high energy and food prices, ravaging inflation, social unrest and fears of another global recession, Western and…
Editorial – The Guardian More than five years after hundreds of thousands fled Myanmar, conditions in Bangladesh are deteriorating The hungry and desperate are now much more so. Last month, the rations to Rohingya living in the world’s largest refugee camp – Cox’s Bazar…
Sachs* The banking crisis that hit Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week has spread. We recall with a shudder two recent financial contagions: the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, which led to a deep Asian recession, and the 2008 Great Recession, which led to a global downturn. The…
By George Monbiot* – The Guardian Gordon Brown, Condoleezza Rice and Alastair Campbell are as responsible for an illegal war as the Russian leader’s ‘henchmen’ they condemn It goes beyond hypocrisy. It’s an assault on memory.
By Ben Burgis* – Jacobin Today is the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. We should never forget and never forgive the architects of that evil war.
