By Ben Norton* – Geopolitical Economy Ecuador’s Trump-backed right-wing oligarch President Daniel Noboa tried to rewrite the constitution to allow US military bases in the country’s territory. 61% of Ecuadorians voted against it. The Donald Trump administration is trying to…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate…
By Brett Wilkins*- Common Dreams CodePink said the plan “will leave Palestine in the hands of a puppet administration, assigning the United States, which shares complicity in the genocide, as the new manager of the open-air prison.” Palestine defenders decried Monday’s approval…
By Jan Zieloka* – International Politics and Society (IPS Journal)* European crises require unity, yet leaders continue to prioritise sovereignty, making citizens the casualties of political posturing. What is the nastiest bug destroying Europe at present — populism, nativism or…
By Masum Mahbub* – Global Voices Making Gaza livable again will require a global effort on an unprecedented scale. A ceasefire was finally signed. Humanitarian organizations are scaling up operations to reach families facing famine after nearly two years of relentless…
By Eric Alter* – Asia Times UN stuck in ‘one world’ past as more nimble blocs and regional bodies forge the new multipolar world order. Last September, in the shadow of escalating global crises—from the grinding stalemate in Ukraine to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza—the…
By Antony Loewenstein* – Middle East Eye After more than two years of war, Jewish support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza requires accountability, moral clarity and an urgent reckoning across Israel and the Diaspora. There’s a desperate need for a moral reckoning among the global…
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams Palestine remains the endless victim of US and Israeli maneuvers. The results are not just devastating for Palestine, which has suffered an outright genocide, but for the Arab world and beyond.
Simardone* – The Cradle As the US recalibrates from global hegemony to hemispheric dominance, Venezuela becomes the battleground for an empire in decline – but also for the Global South’s defiance. War with Venezuela seems all but imminent.
By Jawad Khalid* – CounterPunch As deadly storms rip through the Caribbean, a new United Nations report delivers a sobering warning: the world is failing to prepare for the climate it has already created. UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2025, aptly titled Running on Empty, finds…
