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Review: “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”
Historian Rashid Khalidi’s concise and at times personal take on a century of colonial conquest and resistance in Palestine is a highly accessible read that focuses on key events and themes.
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Seymour Hersh publishes leaked memo undermining U.S. narrative on 2013 Syria sarin attack
Read the leaked Pentagon/DIA assessment of the chemical warfare capability of Al Qaeda in Syria, known as al-Nusra, from June 20, 2013, made public by Seymour Hersh in September 2023.
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Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger sign military alliance
The military governments of three African states, which all deposed their Western-backed leaders in recent years, have agreed to assist each other, individually or collectively, in case of external aggression or internal threats to their sovereignty.
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Hear no NATO evil, see no NATO evil
To maintain public support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s proxy war with Russia, it’s important to erase its history of violence. The Canadian media’s refusal to mention NATO’s role in Libya’s instability partly reflects the requirements of Ukraine propaganda.
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‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning
The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase is beginning. Even diehard supporters of Ukraine in the western media and think tanks are admitting that a military victory over Russia is impossible and a vacation of the territory under Russian control is way beyond Kiev’s capability.
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New study identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’
Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects set to begin through 2050, according to Oil Change International.
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Biden has relaunched Reagan’s murderous war against Nicaraguan Democracy–how many is he willing to kill to win?
When CIA-trained terrorists tried to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s, the left erupted in protest. Now the left is cheering for the CIA.
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U.S. moves to curtail China’s economic investment in the Caribbean
On March 8, 2023, General Laura J. Richardson of the United States (U.S.) Southern Command gave testimony at a congressional hearing wherein she issued a warning to U.S. lawmakers about the expansion of Chinese influence in the Caribbean that were at odds with purported U.S. interests in the region.
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The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12.
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Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy
Never before has society had the ability it does today to bring together different communities and resources in order to produce new knowledge. It is social, universal labour, and its private appropriation as intellectual property under capitalism stands in the way of liberating the enormous power of the collective to generate new knowledge and benefit people.
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Capitalism must be stopped, not reformed
The time needed for understanding is delaying the radical decisions that are needed immediately. This premise is fundamental. If we wait for people to understand fully, we do not save ourselves. We do not save the planet.
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Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
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The silences of the Delhi declaration
THE G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute economic crisis of the world economy.
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Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.
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The pyramid scheme that is racial capitalism
On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself.
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How Bill Clinton looted Russia and started NATO expansion
Avoiding Nuclear War: As the list of those who take the looming threat of nuclear war seriously keeps growing, let’s try to analyze what brought us to this sad state of affairs.
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Announcing ‘Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire’ by Anya Parampil
After four years of frontline reporting and research, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil unveils her forthcoming book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire.
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G20 is in need of genuine reform
India being the host country, the triumphalist tom-toming that G20 summit on September 9-10 was a “success” is both understandable and probably justifiable.
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A wasted planet gone on sale
The planet has been laid to waste, and society pays for the waste in both money and lost years of life.
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55 Pan-African organizations oppose sanctions on Niger
Following the military coup in Niger, ECOWAS decided to impose humiliating and illegitimate sanctions on Niger at the end of the Heads of State conference in Abuja on July 30.