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Editorial PhilosophyI have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see…
US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase “fake news,” but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, relentlessly accusing…
Another Nonexistent Threat Regime change in Cuba may be the next stop for the Trump war machine. Here’s what he told CNN…
Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces…
China’s vast development and export of renewable energy gear and electric vehicles is helping to drive the green transition globally — the…
China, which was the largest holder of U.S. government debt as recently as 2019, has cut its holdings to the lowest level since 2008,…
I recently came across a thoughtful article by Eric Blanc: Why Is There No Anti-War Movement in the US? As a combat veteran…
Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned…
President Trump has acted as an authoritarian ruler since resuming office just over a year ago. His personal corps of ICE thugs…
Donald Trump is plotting a “takeover” of Cuba. Washington’s lethal siege has already brought life on the island to a standstill. Millions…
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring…
The statistics surrounding global plastic consumption have become a background hum of modern existence—alarming, yet so consistent they risk becoming white noise.…
When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs,…
Just days after the United States and Israel launched their first strikes on Iran, Iran’s women’s football team walked onto the pitch…
The US’s strategic goal in the Middle East for decades has always been dominance for US economic interests. In line with this…
How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would…
Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop…
As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its third week, the outlines of the economic consequences and fallout of the war have…
There are two scenes I cannot shake, and I need to be honest about why. The first unfolds in the Oval Office,…
I write to you with a heavy heart and a free mind. We cannot allow the Cuban people to die and the…
Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception.…
With the US feeling to many like it’s spiraling out of control—recklessly piloted by a White House in chaos—NO KINGS on March…
“Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online…
When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The…
I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which…
Indonesia has condemned Israel’s latest strikes on Lebanon, rightly calling them violations of international law and attacks on civilians. Hundreds have died.…
Despite the conclusion of Cop City’s $120-million construction on 170 acres of stolen Mvskogee land, the Stop Cop City movement and contributors…
On 7 March 2026, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Donald Trump inaugurated the “Shield of the Americas” summit,…
When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, they appeared convinced that the war would…
The US has again illegally bombed the Islamic Republic of Iran during negotiations. While agreeing to give up entirely its nuclear enrichment,…
Unpredictability is a core feature of the polycrisis. There is much speculation about what will come next in the world order, but…
Among the many things that remain of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, are two things: firstly,…
What is being experienced in Iran today is not a crisis of regime, but a cracking of a state ontology. This crack…
Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people’s revolution, remarking that a “principal and…
Doubtless, the war launched by US President Donald Trump is not popular among ordinary Americans. According to the latest public opinion poll,…
Donald Trump, in all his hubris and idiocy, and in response to Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, launched an illegal and unconstitutional war on…
One of the curious phenomena of Israel’s genocidal slaughter in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 is that it has moved…
Bryan Goode and his coworkers perform demanding, hazardous jobs producing oil in one of the most unforgiving places on earth. They work…
We win almost any social demand only when some elite figure(s) succumb and implement the sought change. We demand a higher wage,…
Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but,…
Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best…
A Note for the Reader: The Danish Party Landscape The Danish political scene is divided into two main blocs. The Blue Bloc…
I keep coming back to one basic question: Who is this war actually for? It does not feel like it is for…
Caregiving is often a silent act of devotion—unseen, unacknowledged, and isolating. Millions of informal caregivers in the United States spend their time and energy…
On Saturday, February 28, 2026, the U.S.-Israeli air force resumed bombing Iran. Among the first reported killed were over 165 people in…
Two days after the United States and Israel launched attacks that killed Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and hundreds of others—including more than 160…
We are not facing separate crises, but the simultaneous collapse of multiple historical orders unfolding in the present. Not only international relations…
“Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was…
Two days before his kidnapping, President Nicolás Maduro gave an interview to Spanish writer Ignacio Ramonet and explained that the war on…
A week into Trump’s illegal war against Iran, the White House released a 42-second video on X, featuring movie scenes spliced with real…



