A Deal Without Safeguards The Trump administration has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia under which the US will provide the material…
Gulf de-dollarization is the gradual diversification of oil-trade settlement and reserve holdings away from the US dollar. It’s not a wholesale switch…
Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump…
Over 70 delegates from 43 organizations across 17 countries gathered in Colombo from 16-18 July for the ‘Hands Off Asia’ conference, organized…
For some time, Germany – legally and politically – is well on the way to become a sustainable state. Among other things,…
This may seem like a slightly belated reaction to India’s President’s visit to Macedonia 20-23 July. Yet the event deserves a brief…
During the spring heat wave, Europe registered an estimated 800 so-called “surplus deaths”. Meanwhile in Germany, deaths by heat are not even…
Vi kumt di kats ibern vaser? [How does a cat cross over the water?] — Old Yiddish saying The First Question: What’s…
Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless…
The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
When a gunman opens fire in a crowded venue or a vehicle plows into pedestrians in Berlin, New York or London, the…
By now, it is almost impossible to honestly defend the humane facade of the US’s post-War foreign policy. The Truman Doctrine of…
“Donald Trump is running the biggest grift in American history. The unprecedented scale of the president’s corruption was exposed by the recent…
The previous commentaries have described how people in cities, states, and communities have been expanding fossil free energy production and reducing energy…
In 1947, newly independent India set out on one of the twentieth century’s most consequential development experiments. Jawaharlal Nehru’s government rejected both…
So much going on. Existential crises. Fundamental needs. Short and long term agendas. Sounds heard all around the world. Much to think…
It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque…
By turning voting machines, classified intelligence, and alleged foreign interference into political theater, the Trump administration is preparing voters to distrust an election that…
Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify…
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the “Arab” side of a…
As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to…
On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the secretary of defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to combat what he claimed…
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.…
The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades. From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted…
Climate-focused progressive author Phil Wilson (ZNet, July 24, 2026) writes that “out of our current predicament there are two (and only two)…
A widening war After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over…
On July 14, at a summit in Orlando, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director Terrance Cole declared that Mexican cartels and the Mexican government…
Most immigration debates focus on the border. But the real story starts much earlier — with trade deals, war, inequality, climate breakdown,…
The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party…
President Daniel Noboa governs Ecuador with increasingly authoritarian methods. Elected in 2023 and reelected in 2025, he has concentrated power in the…
How Big Oil Seduced American Farming and Left Taxpayers With the Bill Earlier last week in Washington, administration officials appeared before the…
This was certainly an occasion when the mouse roared. At least the threatened lion thought so, if the latest hysteria-streaked US State…
On 22 July, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed what Washington calls a ‘peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement.’ The agreement has been presented…
In 1950, during an informal meeting with colleagues at Los Alamos, the famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi asked the following question: Where…
The Israeli military’s Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the West…
The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th…
The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends…
“The biggest shift in consciousness? I’d say it began in 2026. Really took off by 2028. That’s when the working-class vote for…
Having recently presented Classical Marxist theory, then Leninist strategy, and last time Bolshevik practice, this essay moves on to critically assess Leninist…
Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had,…
Months in, Trump’s war on Iran has netted him none of the goals he proclaimed when he began dropping bombs. Iran still…
As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the science to eliminate viral hepatitis,…
The Constitution gives Congress the powers to declare war and authorize military force, but the American empire gives the president the first…
When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated by… pro-peace organizations like…
Robin Andersen’s The Complicit Lens is a tour de force: not only does she focus on US legacy/mainstream/capitalist media coverage of Israel’s…
Despite Israel’s alleged ceasefire, news emerging from the Gaza Strip is no different from what it was before the agreement. Not only…
The lawsuit filed after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) questioned Max Blumenthal and seized two of his cellphones has renewed debate…
Last Sunday, Spain lifted the World Cup trophy at MetLife Stadium, closing out six weeks that revealed two very different North Americas.…
Right now, in Santa Cruz, California, police officers are going without federally funded bulletproof vests. In Beaverton, Oregon, paramedics are losing the ambulances they were…
