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Trump’s executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement and expand police impunity
In April, Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” that hands sweeping new powers to police, guts hard-won reforms and punishes cities that refuse to fall in line.
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One side routinely uses human shields in Gaza—but not the side that’s usually blamed
Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields.
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India and Pakistan lock horns: Who won and why?
In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.
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Vietnam celebrates 50 years of the end of its colonial period
Reflections on Vietnam’s revolutionary reunification, post-war recovery, and socialist transformation–highlighting the enduring legacy of resistance and the challenges of building a sovereign economy.
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The real Trump revealed
On Friday, the United States granted approval for Germany to transfer 125 long-range artillery rockets and 100 Patriot air-defense missiles to Ukraine, a congressional official confirmed to The New York Times.
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Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing
The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.
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Commemorating the 168th anniversary of 1857 War of Independence
LET NOT THE HINDUTVA RULERS UNDO THE GREAT HERITAGE OF JOINT SACRIFICES.
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Activists warn of the growing militarisation of the Indonesian government under General Prawobo
Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.
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Why does the U.S. support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Michael Hudson
A former U.S. secretary of state boasted, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”. Journalist Ben Norton and economist Michael Hudson discuss why the United States so strongly supports Israel.
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‘Our position on Palestine is not fringe’
Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK’s Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Neo-colonialism in West Africa
Francophone Africa was never fully decolonised.
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Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal on his 71st birthday
“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and steel, I felt our love, sometimes like a wave, sometimes like a whisper, but always there, ever present.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio.
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The Supreme Court decision: When law becomes the means of oppression
DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism.
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Yemen – U.S. concedes Maritime defeat
Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.
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The rising star of Cpt. Ibrahim Traore – Burkina Faso’s spirit of Sankara
The new, bold and vibrant leader of Burkina Faso, has left his continental colleagues in the dust, when representing Pan-African leadership…
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Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts
Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.
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The long history of illegality in U.S. policy toward Latin America
It seems as if the entire disgraceful history of U.S. illegality in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has sparked outrage in the United States among human rights defenders and opponents of the Trump administration.
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What explains India’s response to Trump?
To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.
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Israel’s backers keep whining that they’re losing control of the narrative
Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.
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World military spending explodes
Every dollar added to the world’s military budgets takes us closer to a potentially apocalyptic scenario of world war.