The New Cold War that has been going on since the turn of the century does not counterpoise antagonistic socioeconomic and political…
Gilbert Achcar
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. Russia has launched a massive series of missile…
Faced with the invasion of Ukraine by the regime of Vladimir Putin, the antiwar movement has seen the development of very contrasting…
An exchange on the question of military aid to Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the second defining moment of the New Cold War
What is currently happening in the heart of the European continent is the most dangerous moment in contemporary history and the closest to a Third World war since the Soviet missile crisis in Cuba
The logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a recipe for empty cynicism
Ten years ago, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has been known since 2011 as the ‘Arab Spring’
The Arab region’s long-term revolution
Gutter journalism is unfortunately not the preserve of openly right-wing tabloids. There has existed since the advent of Stalinism a “left-wing” strand of public mudslinging