Subjects Archives: Strategy

As the U.S. prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the U.S. list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen suicide bombers to wreak havoc across Syria.

President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections.

The generals can change deployments, move ships and planes, and order another round of bombing. None of that solves Washington’s basic problem: the Iranian people have not surrendered.

CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.

While Trump’s gangster imperialism exacerbates the trade war with Canada, workers must not simply rally to the side of their own national capitalists, argues John Clarke.

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

Huge scandal in Latin America: far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to assassinate his ex-girlfriend. He oversaw disinformation campaigns for region’s conservative pro-U.S. presidents and has links to Trump admin.

The sanctions mean all property and interests in property of the groups or individuals that are in the U.S. “or in the possession or control of U.S. persons” are blocked.

JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world.

Missile units on southern islands, troops moving on civilian ferries, command bunkers dug underground: a grassroots movement across Japan is trying to halt the drift back towards imperial confrontation. Remembering the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A new study warns that Ukraine’s expanding system of memory laws has turned historical narratives into a tool of state enforcement, deepening restrictions on public discourse and intensifying efforts to shape national identity amid the conflict with Russia.

“Delinking means not submitting to the logic of the global capitalist system, and rejecting the inevitability of passively adapting to the requirements of integration into the world system”  (Samir Amin, Beyond US Hegemony? Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World, Zed Books, 2006, p. 27).

Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Yosef denied Palestinian peoplehood and rights while calling for Gaza’s destruction and renewed Jewish settlement in the enclave.

Colombia’s recently inaugurated right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella is moving rapidly to transform Colombia into a neo-colonial outpost after taking office in early August, giving the U.S. permission to enter Colombian territory under the pretext of “fighting drug cartels.”

Thousands of children who lost their families in Israeli strikes navigate grief, trauma and adulthood with little support.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on molecular structures not found on Earth.

More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population.

IN June 2026, The Nature Index, one of the most well-regarded barometers of high-quality research, issued the annual Research Leaders rankings.

Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.