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 […]

Dialogue Works

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 […]

Maximus Aviation

By Nalliah Thayabharan Drones have become the ultimate disruptors in modern warfare reshaping how battles are fought but as their dominance grows so does the threat they pose especially in swarms where sheer numbers can overwhelm even the most advanced defenses. China’s groundbreaking Hurricane 3000 – a high- power microwave weapon capable of neutralizing entire […]

Courtesy The Guardian (UK) Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justify his wading into German politics The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan The Japanese economy was the biggest economic miracle in the 20th century after the United States,but a grim turning point occurred when the Plaza Accord was signed. Japan’s GDP was less than $0.5 trillion in 1960, yet just 3 decades later, the economy grew to a stunning amount of over $3.1 trillion by 1990 […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan Germany’s political landscape is undergoing a seismic shift as the Bundestag has been officially dissolved triggering snap elections that could reshape the nation’s future.  President Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the dramatic announcement on December 27, 2024 marking a critical moment in German Democratic history. The dissolution follows Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unexpected loss of […]

Centre for Policy Research

By Nalliah Thayabharan The Israeli regime has failed in Gaza. It’s been almost 15 months and they fail to take Gaza. Slaughtering thousands of children and women is not a victory. We see Israeli operations taking place daily in Gaza and a number of Israelis have been killed over the past few days. So Gaza […]

Vijay Prasad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies’ profits soar. These […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan The United States has enacted strict export restrictions designed to limit China’s access to vital Technologies especially within the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries. These actions which include placing major Chinese companies like HUAWEI and SMIC on the Blacklist, expanding the foreign direct product rule and controlling the export of advanced semiconductor […]

By Connor Echols A half-baked report highlights the double standard US officials use for IsraelMay 13, 2024 On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken struck back at claims that U.S. officials let Israel dodge American laws regarding weapons transfers. We don’t have double standards,” Blinken said. We treat Israel, one of […]

By Alan Macleod Dec 12, 2024 Corporate media is heralding the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as the new leader of Syria, despite his deep ties to both al-Qaeda and ISIS. How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from an article in Britain’s Daily […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan Canada’s deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, quit her job, just before she was set to deliver the latest budget, like calling in sick before an important meeting that you know you can’t handle. The $62 billion deficit that was set to be announced – $22 billion more than […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos .Courtesy defenddemocracy In my previous article on Syria I argued that there is a Damascus-Tehran (not forgetting Lebanon and Palestine) train that is now preparing to depart”. The ink on the article did not have time to ‘dry’, so to speak, since no ink is used anymore, and the train started to […]

Judge Napolitano – Judging

Jeffrey St. Clair Courtesy CounterPunch. With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms with the American regime and opened his dungeons to the CIA for […]

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

Courtesy The Week Adani Ports opts out of DFC loan from the US, cutting American involvement in the development of the Colombo West International Terminal in Sri Lanka to counter Chinese influence In a new development to the growing strain between the US and Indian industrialist Gautam Adani following his DOJ and SEC indictments last […]