I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the…
If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged by geopolitical puppeteers—would you…
The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and…
“That went well! Let’s do it again soon.” My friend and I congratulated ourselves and hung up the phone. Greg and I…
1. The Iraqi Left Between Participation and Boycott in the 2025 Elections This article comes at a critical political and organizational moment…
On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the…
On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well,…
The Palestinian struggle, which spans over a century, is fundamentally about the dispossession of land, resistance to displacement, self-determination and human rights. …
Descartes’ famous phrase “I think, therefore I am” (cogito, ergo sum) has been the subject of immense discussion in modern and contemporary…
Sitting in a lively room in the University of Amsterdam, I ask a question about the respect accorded by students to their…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s description of the company’s quarterly earnings in August 2025 as “once in a generation” wasn’t far-fetched. It surpassed $1…
The letters started coming in October 2025. In the first wave, according to the Florida Policy Institute (FPI), “at least 22 school districts…
It is October 2025, and one room in southern Germany was in a rage. The discontent of workers over the loss of…
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On December 14,1995 leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,…
Bosnia and Herzegovina is usually introduced to foreign readers as a “post-war success story” held together by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement…
José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election is bound to have a profound influence on Chile. A solid, neo-fascist, extreme…
For the last month or so there have been two small flags flying prominently outside the front door of my and my…
Given my long-term interest in international affairs, I went to see the recently released movie, “Nuremberg,” to revisit the issue of how…
“Kill them all!” You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your…
Modern Western strategic thinking still likes to present itself as the child of the Enlightenment: Rationality, progress, order, and law. However, the…
Throughout history, women have played crucial roles on both global and local levels. They have fought for rights, participated in governments, led…
Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short…
I arrived at the Taj Hotel in Baghdad’s Jadriyah neighborhood at 6 a.m., worn thin by the long flight from Los Angeles.…
US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that…
The year 2025 witnessed escalated threats from the United States on the Global South. In the span of months, Washington declared Venezuelan airspace “closed…
On Thursday, December 4, the White House released a new National Security Strategy, a document that lays out the Trump’s regime’s “America…
German trade unions, like any form of unionism, can be viewed from three political perspectives. From a unitarist viewpoint, trade unions are…
The first U.S. missiles that struck the boats in the Caribbean in early September 2025 were described by Washington as a “counter-narcotics…
It is hard not to notice the word “socialism” appearing steadily more often in steadily more places. Some appearances of the word…
The name Homo sapiens—Latin for “wise man”—has always carried an air of self-congratulation. Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, coined the…
In U.S. political talk, Iraq is often treated as a “finished chapter.” The invasion is history, the occupation is history, and even…
Ten years after Donald Trump first ran for president, he stands at the helm of Titanic America. How did this happen? No…
Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional,…
The long historical journey of the Kurdish freedom movement is a multi-layered series of breaks that have transformed not only the political…
Somewhere between a renaming and a re-founding – deceptively labelled “Generation Germany” (GG) – Germany’s far-right, or neo-Nazi, AfD has given itself…
“What is in a name?” The great Shakespeare had Juliet pose this question, suggesting that names might be delicate shells we can…
Land and environmental defenders—Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive exploitation of natural resources. Global Witness defines…
The election of Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, as Mayor of New York was not a fluke. Progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists…
First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the…
“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing from other war…
Fifty years have passed since the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain following the death of fascist Francisco Franco. However, the…
In a Maghreb growing increasingly thirsty, water is no longer just a resource: it has become a diagnostic tool for our shared…
Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network forSustainability. He is the author of more than fifteen…
Ceasefire? Peace in the Middle East? Ask a Gazan about it (well, not one of the 360 or more that the IDF has killed…
Please also consider joining a webinar (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RkidkfT6R662744002iSGQ#/registration) at 4pm PT / 7pm ET on December 7th, hosted by “The JFK Peace Speech Committee,” which…
Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not…
Each day, we learn of Israel’s theft of yet another slice of Palestine. Piece by piece, acre by acre, the Palestinian nation…
Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally…
Comedy isn’t merely entertainment—it is a civic instrument, a mirror held up to the collective self, reflecting truths that polite society refuses…
With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every…
