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The executive order “directs implementation of a next-generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missile, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”

These closures are a cruel, anti-democratic attack on all workers that demand a strong response from unions across Canada.

Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”?

Writers and activists Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris reflect on the piece in the NYT which openly calls for a military intervention to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Writer and journalist Karan Madhok’s book ‘Ananda’ is a deep-dive into the cannabis plant–what it is, what it does, and how Indian society looks at and reacts to it.

The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we’re also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say “Well actually China is actually quite bad actually” in response.

We need to build our own resilience against the increasingly unpredictable acts of our belligerent neighbours to the south.

2025 Doomsday Clock Statement

Trump’s “border czar” has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda is one of the Administration’s top priorities.

China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world.

The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.

Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’—the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God.

Ocean temperatures were rising at a rate of 0.06 °C per decade, whereas now they are increasing by 0.27 °C every ten years.

A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.

It’s not a secret that Elon Musk embraces fascist and reactionary political movements.

China’s technological progress is far more vulnerable to a more “friendly” US. rather than a more “hostile” one.

If anyone still doubts that the United States is the center of an empire, the show put on by the New York tycoon dispels all doubts.

Human societies are setting themselves on a collision course with climate-induced catastrophes. Lithium-ion batteries will soon be facing competition. How to deal with x and the conflicts it creates?