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Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault
In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift.
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How Canada should respond to Israel’s escalating violence
We can protect Palestinians from Israeli aggression by applying our own Canadian law.
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Biden budget would send $1.3 billion more to Israeli military than to Global climate programs: Analysis
A group of anti-war veterans said President Joe Biden’s spending priorities indicate that he thinks “preserving apartheid is more important than fighting climate change.”
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This isn’t a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
We are not seeing a “civil war” inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized “citizens,” and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
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U.S. defeat in Afghanistan—A contrast with the Soviet experience
As`ad AbuKhalil says Western media never regarded the U.S. involvement for what it really was.
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Soviet Jews “stand with Israel forever”
This is what happens when a whole group of people gets converted to ethno-nationalism, which has become a kind of secular religion for them—a belief system predicated on messianic ethnic cleansing and blood-and-soil thinking. Most of my old Soviet immigrant friends aren’t religious, but Zionism fills in that gap for them.
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‘Everywhere is war’: paying tribute to Bob Marley
Forty years after his death, Robert Nesta Marley retains a unique position as possibly the only Third World musical superstar, widely known by millions of people around the globe.
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Palestinian community in Lydda calls for international protection from Israeli state-sanctioned pogroms
Following a night of racist attacks by far-right Israeli extremists, Palestinians living in Lydda (Lod) are calling for immediate international intervention to defend them before it is too late.
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How the modern NRA was born at the border
Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
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German Greens crusade for U.S./NATO wars
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news to the American Greens, but if they haven’t been following the evolution of Greens in Europe, especially Germany, they are in for an unpleasant surprise. The Greens are now practically the most warlike party in Europe.
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It’s aggression when ‘they’ do it, but defense when ‘we’ do worse
Aggression, in international politics, is commonly defined as the use of armed force against another sovereign state, not justified by self-defense or international authority.
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United States withdraws from Afghanistan? Not really
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds.
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Amidst pandemic and economic sufferings, 2020’s global military spending reached highest level in decades
In 2020, nations were struggling to support their economies through the times of hardships and lockdowns caused by the pandemic. Those efforts apparently did not prevent governments from spending more money on their militaries than ever before in more than three decades, the report said.
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Biden’s first act of war hits 3 Countries
Biden’s Feb. 26 strike in Syria was a crime, and risks major war with three countries.
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Almost everything Biden said about ending the Afghanistan War was a lie
While Americans hailed the announcement that the U.S. would withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly two decades of war, President Biden left out the most important details about the war and how it will in fact continue.
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175 Years of border invasions: The anniversary of the U.S. war on Mexico and the roots of northward migration
Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice versa.
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Pentagon adds Africa to Global battleground with China and Russia
General Stephen Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 22.
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Why the U.S. shouldn’t play games with cyberwarfare as its power declines
Two major cyberhacks—of ‘SolarWinds’ and ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’—have affected a whole range of computer systems worldwide. Both are supply chain hacks, meaning that they appeared to be routine software upgrades for particular components in these systems instead of inserted malicious codes.
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Why Xinjiang is emerging as the epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China
The U.S. government’s information warfare against China has produced the “fact” that there is genocide in Xinjiang. Once this has been established, it helps develop diplomatic and economic warfare.
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U.S. expects Russia to submit. Will it?
In his landmark foreign policy speech delivered from the U.S. state department on February 4, President Joe Biden had proclaimed that “America is back. Diplomacy is back at the centre of our foreign policy.” That maxim was put to test last week. And it failed to make the grade.