Courtesy Adaderana Beijing will resolutely counter” U.S. pressure on tariffs and the fentanyl issue, China’s foreign minister said on Friday, adding that major powers should not bully the weak”, in a veiled swipe at the Trump administration’s foreign policy. Top diplomat Wang Yi also presented China as a reliable global power in the midst of […]

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Andrey Vondemark Hungary’s High-Stakes Gamble: Breaking from the EU for BRICS? Is Hungary setting the stage for an unprecedented shift in global alliances? As tensions rise within the European Union, Budapest appears to be charting its own course—one that veers away from Brussels and toward the BRICS economic bloc. This strategic pivot raises urgent questions: […]

Walden Bello I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down USAID, but I think it’s rather small fry.  There are much, much bigger fish to fry if you want to really save U.S. government money that is being wasted in programs […]

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.   Cao Fei (China), My Future Is Not a Dream 05, 2006. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump indicated his interest in annexing Greenland and brokering a peace deal for Ukraine […]

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Oneindia News Country singer and Republican press secretary Alexis Wilkins attended Kash Patel’s swearing-in as FBI director. Patel, confirmed by the Senate in a 51-49 vote, took the oath in the presence of his girlfriend Wilkins, who shared the moment on social media. Wilkins, a PragerU contributor and political commentator, has gained prominence in conservative […]

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MIRROR NOW Indian-origin Kash Patel has been confirmed as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Patel, a loyalist of US President Donald Trump took over after winning the Senate vote 51-49. Dan Scavino, Trump’s assistant and White House Deputy Chief of Staff congratulated Kaash Patel in Bollywood style. Watch this video for […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් USAID විසින් එක්සත් ජනපදයේ උපන් අල්-කයිඩා සාමාජිකයෙකු වන අන්වර් අල්-අව්ලාකිට(Anwar al-Awlaki) මූල්‍ය ආධාර ලබා දී ඇති බව  එක්සත් ජනපද විමර්ශන මාධ්‍යවේදිනියක් වන පැමෙලා බ්‍රවුන්(Pamela Browne) විසින් හෙළිදරව් කර තිබේ. 1990 ගණන්වල කොලරාඩෝ ප්‍රාන්ත විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ සිවිල් ඉංජිනේරු විද්‍යාව හැදෑරීම සඳහා අල්-අව්ලාකිට USAID විසින් “පූර්ණ අරමුදල්” ලබා දුන් බවට හෙළිකෙරෙන පත්‍රිකාවක් ද […]

by Jonathan Cook  Courtesy  defenddemocracy.press The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the Middle […]

Kimberlee Hurley – February 6, 2025 One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states that still carry out capital punishment have a sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection,” and urged the Attorney General to seek to overrule the Supreme Court’s precedents on […]

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Vijay Prasad The idea of a ceasefire is as old as the idea of war. In old records, one reads of halts in firing for humans to eat or sleep. Rules of combat developed out of an understanding that both sides had to rest or refresh themselves. Sometimes, this understanding included the lives of animals. […]

FREENVESTING

World Beyond War The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic: foreign ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones — part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything […]

defenddemocracy.press Jan 27, 2025 As Western arms continue to flood into Ukraine, America’s military-industrial complex has been enjoying the spoils of the proxy conflict. US defense contractors have been profiting from Ukraine-related military supplies while bringing the world to the brink of war, numerous experts have told Sputnik. US weapons manufacturers have raked in a […]

Ramzy Baroud Courtesy Counterpunch A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil. Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, of carrying out well-documented crimes in Gaza. He is not the only […]

World BEYOND War Join us for a Global Day of Action to Close Military Bases on February 23! We call on individuals and organizations around the world to participate in this worldwide day of protest against military bases. Join the Global Day of Action to #CloseBases The thousands of military bases, both foreign and domestic, […]

The dossier was researched and written under the leadership of Professor Grieve Chelwa of The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, through Tricontinental Pan Africa In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational […]

Epic History In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They oversaw an era of Islamic military dominance… city-building… brilliant scholarship, and technological innovation. It has come to […]

 Saeed Naqvi The multitudes who trekked the tricky path for the Alaska Gold Rush mostly came a cropper. What fate awaits the punters who have made a beeline for the Syrian casino will become a wee bit clearer when President Trump ascends the Washington gaddi on January 20. The US, Israel, Tukey, HTS, a stream […]

braveneweurope.com Western state and corporate media have become propaganda outlets, trying to keep us in the dark Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years – week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity of ‘mainstream’ enthusiasm for US-authored regime change. Each time, without fail, thousands […]

TomDispatch Posted on January 9, 2025 Hey, why not buy (or just take) Greenland? After all, we already have a military base there, once known as Thule Air Base and, in 2023, renamed Pituffik Space Base in honor of the settlement of local people who were — yes! — displaced in 1951 when it was […]

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Centre Stage Sashi Tharoor – a political priority for India…. relevant for Sri Lanka as much as it is for India..…policy our past dynastic political leaders chose to do otherwise…

by Dev Chandrasekhar Courtesy Countercurrent.org In the decades since the formal end of colonialism, nations across the Global South have proudly waved the banner of independence, self-reliance, decolonization, and now—deglobalization. The rhetoric of national empowerment, however, generally masks the perpetuation of colonial-era economic structures and cultural impositions. Local elites are replacing foreign powers as the […]

Lawrence Davidson Courtesy Counterpunch Gate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau – CC BY 3.0 At Home and Abroad Police in America need a great deal of reform, a project that translates to freeing them from the racist nature of U.S. culture while tying them more firmly to the culture of civil and human rights. Not easy, but […]