By Andre Damon 16 May 2024 In a major escalation of the US-NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown told the New York Times Thursday that the NATO military alliance will eventually” send significant numbers of active-duty NATO troops to Ukraine, which the newspaper said […]

Sputnik May 15. 2024 ANKARA (Sputnik) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held an emergency meeting with the heads of intelligence and the ministry of justice after his fellow party member, Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli, had warned of a possible coup d’état being prepared by law enforcement agencies, the Turkiye newspaper on […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Courtesy defend.democracy.press The attempted assassination of the leftist and a critic of Western policy in Ukraine Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico, is probably the most alarming of a plethora of indications we already have regarding both the rapid deterioration of the state of democracy in Europe and, also, of the intention […]

worldwide news World Bank Launches First-Ever Pandemic Bonds to Support $500 Million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility Washington, DC, June 28, 2017 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) today launched specialized bonds aimed at providing financial support to the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), a facility created by the World Bank to channel surge […]

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.   Liby Ousmane Lougué (Burkina Faso), Papa Roger, 2020. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 2 October 1958, Guinea declared its independence from France. Guinea’s President Ahmed Sékou Touré clashed against France’s President Charles De Gaulle, who tried to strong arm Touré into […]

RT.com Russia remains America’s second-largest supplier of crop nutrients, according to the news agency ©  Getty Images / Johner Images The US has ramped up fertilizer imports from Russia over the past year despite being at the forefront of the Western sanctions war against Moscow, RIA Novosti analysis of official data showed on Monday. According to […]

TomDispatch.com May 9, 2024 Once upon a time, in another era, maybe even another universe, the head of a university refused to call on the police, the National Guard, or even federal troops in the face of student and other protests. Instead, he opened the doors of his school to the demonstrators. I’m thinking of […]

By Pepe Escobar Information Clearing House. While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’ The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron […]

Mapping Militarism 2024: Expanded and Improved Online Tools Created Mapping Militarism – World BEYOND War They allow you to explore the world, now and back through the years. Which nations are spending how much money on militaries? Which are spending how much per capita? Which are exporting weapons? Which are importing weapons from the dominant […]

By Noam Chomsky Courtesy tomdispatch.com In Washington-Speak, Palestinian State” Means Fried Chicken” The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange.  For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.  In this case, it is not only possible, but there is […]

Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. It was inevitable that the Global North governments’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians would result in furious retribution from their citizenry. That this retribution began in the United States is also not a surprise, given the ongoing cycle of protests that, since October 2023, have contested […]

by Michael Hudson courtesy Counterpunch.org The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of the McCarthy hearings. And the student revolts incited by vicious college presidents trying to stifle academic freedom when it […]

by Ray Acheson Courtesy Counterpunch.org AUKUS is the awkward-sounding acronym for Australia-United Kingdom-United States”—a trilateral military alliance that stands poised to waste billions of dollars, proliferate high-level radioactive material and impose its safekeeping on First Nations communities for hundreds of thousands of years, increase global militarism and potentially provoke a nuclear war. If this doesn’t […]

Courtesy Adaderana Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of U.S. university campuses on Saturday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas among other demands. The Indiana University police department in Bloomington said in an emailed statement that 23 protesters were arrested there. Indiana State Police […]

Greece On Sunday 21 April massive anti-imperialist events took place all over Greece. They were protesting against Greece’s involvement in US-NATO-EU militarism and the ongoing bloodshed of the Palestinian people. As if to impede the protests with climate modification technologies or Directed Energy Weapons (DEW), Greek skies turn orange as a ‘Saharan dust storm’ set […]

By Azad Essa in Princeton, New Jersey Anti-War Students vow to ‘de-occupy’ Princeton University after administration halts encampment Hours after administrators shut down a fledgling encampment at Princeton University on Thursday morning, hundreds of students took control of a central courtyard at the Ivy League institution, vowing to remain until the university divests from companies […]

Through the eyes of

George Galloway MP

Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent Courtesy The Guardian Critics of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa say behind remarks is lack of national recognition that slavery should be discussed in schools Portugal needs to pay the costs” of slavery and other colonial-era crimes, the country’s president has said, in a rare instance of a European leader […]

by Nick Turse Courtesy Counterpunch.org Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries. The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations […]

by Tom Engelhardt courtesy counterpunch.com I’ve been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I’ve written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies — god save us, it could be four in November! I’ve viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America’s endlessly disastrous wars of this century. I’ve […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් වර්තමානයේ දී ලෝකයේ බොහෝ රටවල් අමෙරිකාව ප්‍රමුඛ බටහිර ආධිපත්‍යයෙන් මිදී බහුධ්‍රැවීය ලෝකය තුළට පිවිසෙමින් ඇති බව හා ගෝලීය මූල්‍ය ක්‍රමය බිඳවැටී නව මූල්‍ය පද්ධතියක් ලෝකය තුළ ස්ථාපනය වෙමින් පවතින බවත් රුසියානු ශ්‍රී ලංකා ව්‍යාපාරික සංසදයේ සභාපති ආචාර්ය ජගත් චන්ද්‍රවංශ මහතා අනාවරණය කරයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව අනාවරණය කළේ බිඳවැටෙන අධිරාජ්‍ය හමුවේ […]

Jesus TV

Reinvent Money Paul Buitink talks to John Mearsheimer, a renowned American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is a Professor at the University of Chicago. John gives an overview of what offensive realism is. Furthermore he discusses the European Union’s foreign policy and how dependent it […]

By John Feffer Courtesy Tomdispatch.com Haiti has descended into chaos. It’s had no president or parliament — and no elections either –for eight long years. Its unelected prime minister Ariel Henry resigned recently when gang violence at the airport in Port-au-Prince made it impossible for him to return to the country after a trip to […]

OpenmindedThinker Show

By David Hearst Zionism wants large war to cover the Genocide, and the West needs World War 3 to stall the BRICS and Rise of the Global South in the Asian 21st Century Staunch allies calling themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realise they are also friends of the murderers of western aid workers, […]

YANIS VAROUFAKIS Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not […]

Geopolitical Economy Report

SCOTT RITTER Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a […]