Courtesy The Moscow Times Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned the United States against launching military action against Iran, as tensions escalate in the Middle East and speculation grows over potential U.S. involvement in the conflict alongside Israel. Israel launched airstrikes on Iran’s military and nuclear program last Friday, and Tehran has responded with its […]

RT.com Jun 18, 2025 This war will be the starting point of reshaping the world. If Iran wins – and I believe it will, eventually – the world will shift to a multipolar order. That is the shared vision of Iran, Russia, and China. But if Iran loses, we will all live under an American […]

By El Toque Havana Times June 18, 2025 HAVANA TIMES – At the recently concluded 9th Congress of the National Association of Cuban Economists and Accountants (ANEC), Cuba’s Minister of Economy and Planning, Joaquin Alonso Vasquez, confirmed to delegates that the partial dollarization of the economy will not only continue but is the official strategy […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos The absolutely predictable and predicted (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/now-irans-turn-the-spectre-of-a-new-1989), military conflict that erupted five days ago in the Middle East is one of the most serious and dangerous to have broken out globally in decades. Like all major crises, it simultaneously allows us to draw highly useful conclusions about the most critical issues of the […]

by Dave DeCamp Call the White House Campaign by US citizens to Wake Up, and to tell them you do not want any part of this disastrous war Sources familiar with the matter have told Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton that the Trump administration is poised to enter Israel’s aggressive war against Iran directly. US airstrikes […]

Mazin Qumsiyeh Jun 13, 2025 Yesterday I told staff that there will be an attack on Iran and to stock on food. It started few hours later. It does not take a genius to figure these things out as all the signs were clear. Trump (Epstein/Mossad videos holding him by the balls) told Iran to […]

By Medea Benjamin, Courtesy Palestine Chronicle GHF has never been about delivering aid. It’s about using the illusion of aid to control the population of Gaza—and to give cover to war crimes. Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, […]

විකල්ප මැඩ්ලීන්(Madleen) නෞකාව, ගාසා තීරය වෙත අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ආධාර රැගෙන යන ‘මානුෂීය යාත්‍රාව’, හුදු නැවක් පමණක් නොවේ. එය මිනිස් හෘද සාක්ෂියේ, සාධාරණත්වය-යුක්තිය පිළිබඳ මිනිස් ආශාවේ සහ මණුෂ්‍යත්වයේ සංකේතයකි. ගාසා තීරයේ ජනතාව මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටින ‘ජනසංහාරික තත්ත්වය’ තුළ ආහාර, ඖෂධ ඇතුලු මූලික අවශ්‍යතා හිඟකම/නොමැතිකම ඇතුලු අසීමිත දුක්ඛිත තත්ත්වයන් මධ්‍යයේ ඔවුන්ට හැකි උපරිම ලෙස සහය වීම සදහා මැඩ්ලීන් […]

Hua Bin Smart state planning plus ferocious market competition In standard western economic textbooks, state planning and market competition are mutually exclusive. Thatcher and Reagan brought western capitalism into the neoliberal phase by claiming Government is not the answer. Government is the problem”, putting market fundamentalism on the altar. On the other side, Soviet central […]

Sufian Jusoh|Joanne Lin Sri Lanka at the Center of maritime connectivity between ASEAN and GCC need an ‘Asia First” Foreign Policy Sufian Jusoh and Joanne Lin assess Malaysia’s bold initiative to host the inaugural ASEAN-GCC-China Summit, exploring its strategic rationale, economic potential, and the implications for ASEAN’s centrality in a shifting global order. The ASEAN-GCC-China […]

Middle East Eye Avigdor Lieberman said Israeli forces, under prime minister’s orders, are giving weapons to ‘crime families’ in Palestinian enclave Jun 5, 2025 Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman has accused Israeli forces, under the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of arming crime families” in Gaza. The accusations add weight to the claim that […]

R. Balaji Courtesy The Telegraph online Sudhakaran was appearing for Sri Lankan national and former LTTE member Subaskaran alias Jeevan, who pleaded that he would face political persecution if deported to his country. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition from a former LTTE member challenging his deportation to Sri Lanka, saying […]

Leslie Alan Horvitz Courtesy Counterpunch Photo by Logan Voss In the 1983 film War Games, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War Operation Plan Response) is about to provoke a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but because of the ingenuity of a teenager (played by Matthew Broderick), catastrophe is averted. […]

Vijay Prashad Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border […]

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine. In South Asia, a Regional Cold War is ramping up with India’s Beggar thy Neighborhood First” policies, including war on Pakistan Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Movement toward war with China accelerates. Trump has raised America’s military budget to a Trillion dollars although […]

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Natalie Ecanow Senior Research Analyst Courtesy Foundation for Defense of Democracies White House Correspondents’ season just wrapped in Washington. Last weekend, celebrities, journalists, and politicians descended on Washington to celebrate the free press. Traditionally, the weekend is also an occasion to take jabs at the administration. Among this year’s events was a soiree hosted by the Embassy […]

Business reporter, BBC News The UK and the US have reached a deal over tariffs on some goods traded between the countries. President Donald Trump’s blanket 10% tariffs on imports from countries around the world still applies to most UK goods entering the US. But the deal has reduced or removed tariffs on some of […]

Courtesy COLOMBO Reuters  —  Apr 16, 2025 The Maldives has banned Israeli passport holders from entering its territory, the president’s office said on Wednesday, accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war, an allegation Israel has repeatedly denied. Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu ratified an amendment to the country’s immigration law after it […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos It’s unprecedented. In two European countries—both EU and NATO members—electricity was suddenly cut off. Two more countries, France and Morocco, were also affected by the blackout. Life came to a standstill in the two countries most heavily impacted: passengers were trapped in trains, airports plunged into chaos, and in Spain alone, the […]

by Nicholas Mwangi April 20, 2025 Kinshasa’s pivot towards the US for security in exchange for minerals has alarmed activists who say that the US is responsible for the ongoing violence in the country’s east. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country endowed with some of the world’s most coveted minerals, continues to be […]

By Nick Beams April 9, 2025 The announcement yesterday by US President Trump of a 90-day pause in the implementation of his so-called reciprocal tariffs,” ostensibly to allow negotiations to take place, is another expression of the deepening economic and financial crisis of American imperialism and its state. The move came amid growing signs that […]

by Keji Mao* In an increasingly uncertain world, India’s decision to ‘learn’ from China’s agricultural successes serves as a potent reminder. In the winter of 1955, the prime minister’s residence in New Delhi welcomed a distinguished Chinese scholar. For a fortnight, he lived under the same roof as Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi – sharing […]

Saeed Naqvi Courtesy Naqvi Journal Dated: 11.04.2025 Rav mein hai aaj Trump kahan dekhiye thamey Na haath baag par hai, na pa hai rakab mein.” (Trump is in full gallop, who knows where he’ll stop? Reins are not in his hands, nor feet in the stirrups) Traumatic turn the world order is taking place in […]

by Professor Amarasiri de Silva Courtesy The Island Globalisation can be understood as relations between countries, and it fosters a greater relationship between countries that involve the movement of goods, services, information, technology, money, and human beings between countries. These relationships transcend economic, cultural, political, and social contexts. Globalisation in the modern world today is […]

Ramzy Baroud Coutesy counterpunch.org Muslims should their house in Order and stop collaborating with Israel and NATO’s war machine and their Saudi Wahhabi- Salafi- ISIS Project Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture. The idea that Israel […]

Andre Damon April 1, 2025 On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.” The United States” was woven into the […]

CNN NN’s Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS” shares this take on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, including the repercussions he predicts

By William J. Astore Courtesy Tomdispatch I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn’t get a top secret briefing on Pentagon war plans for China. And the news people breathed a sigh of relief. With apologies to John Lennon and […]

Gospa News Russia’s deputy foreign minister has warned the United States that any military attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would have catastrophic” consequences for the entire region. Sergei Ryabkov made the remarks during an interview with the International Affairs journal on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran if it fails to come to an […]