Archive | July, 2026

Fifty-one years after victory over Washington’s war machine, Vietnam faces a subtler assault – sanctions, debt, and covert subversion – and answers with a commitment to peace and development.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 26 triumphantly announced the “signing of the Trilateral Framework between Lebanon, Israel and the United States.”

An amendment to the National Food Security Act (NFSA) under which the AAY operates is about to be enacted under which instead of 35 kilogrammes per household per month, 7 kilogrammes per person per month would henceforth be distributed, up to a maximum of 35 kilogrammes per household per month.

On the 250 th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50 th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate.

The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.

Internal Pentagon estimates put the real cost of the US war on Iran at $80-100 billion, far above the official $30 billion figure, as Washington’s original “weeks-long” timeline collapses into months with no clear exit.

Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the “enemy within” and has recently promoted the idea that “democratic socialism must be criminalized.”

The irreversible decline of the U.S. empire’s global hegemony is not merely an economic or technological issue.

Brazil’s government announced Thursday it will immediately initiate procedures under its reciprocity law in response to the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States on certain Brazilian products, while attributing the dispute to the family of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Israel’s Orange and Yellow Lines have become a new geography of control.

Over the last decade, digital sovereignty has emerged not only as a technical debate about network infrastructure but as the central pillar of political and economic autonomy in the 21st century.

The world consumes about 100 million barrels of oil per day [bpd]. Before the war on Iran some 20% of that used to pass from the Persian Gulf region through the Strait of Hormuz to the world markets.

The sanctions death toll, an estimated 40,000 in 2017-18 and more than 100,000 in 2019, according to CERP and UN expert Alfred de Zayas, respectively, never received attention from the media, but the victims of the quakes are portrayed as the government’s fault.

Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.

Washington reloads. So does the resistance—it is stronger, and angrier, and more united than it was on Feb. 28.

The backlash against a landmark national museum exhibition on the Nakba exposes an enduring effort to silence Palestinian voices.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, framed by former Trump administration staffers and secretly endorsed by Trump himself, proposes changes in Medicare benefits that could destroy Medicare as we know it.

At the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s worth returning to the 27th and final complaint the Declaration of Independence makes against King George III.

The thirtieth anniversary of the 1996 election is therefore not merely a historical commemoration.

Left unmentioned in the editorials is that Bezos’ empire—via his space company Blue Origin and Amazon’s cloud computing arm, AWS—holds billions of dollars worth of Pentagon contracts.