Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is true—but for…
Israel in particular, but also the United States, have been breathing new life into the concept of decapitation as a weapon of…
A shaky video shot in the streets of Solino in October 2024 captures the reality unfolding in Haiti. In the clip, a contingent of…
I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from…
A wave of public outrage swept through Sarajevo following the two-day “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” held on March 24–25,…
Microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters, can be found in land, air, and water, and have infiltrated our food chain, resulting…
I’ve been surprised the past week to hear some people, not many but some, telling me that they or people they know…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Yes, for us to diminish and then end escalating wars, for us to stop and then end onrushing Fascism, and for us…
Why do people spend so much time analyzing and documenting the seemingly never-ending horrors taking place throughout the world at the hands…
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its…
With the deadline for paying federal income taxes fast approaching, the thoughts of American taxpayers turn naturally toward the age-old question: Why…
The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire…
This past weekend, Trump threatened to escalate the War with Iran by destroying that country’s energy infrastructure starting, as he said, “with…
I 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…
The US has again illegally bombed the Islamic Republic of Iran during negotiations. While agreeing to give up entirely its nuclear enrichment,…
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…
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…
