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Vijay Prashad: Capitalist Climate Catastrophe
As Global North countries fail to meet their climate finance obligations, the U.N.’s climate meetings have become sites of struggle for countries of the Global South.
Did Trump Pressure Starmer to Ban Palestine Action?
Conversations between the two leaders came up during the direct action group’s legal challenge to its proscription at the High Court last week, John McEvoy and Dania Akkad report.
Selling Out Australian Sovereignty
Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence, writes Peter Cronau.
Civil Rights, Commentary, Gaza, Genocide, International Law, Ireland, Julian Assange, Media, Prisons, Protest, Terrorism, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Jonathan Cook: UK Hunger Strike Is Not Being Televised
Even Palestinian hunger strikers held illegally in Israeli jails receive more coverage from the Israeli press than Palestine Action’s political prisoners are getting in Britain.
Censorship, Civil Rights, Donald Trump, France, Free Press, Israel, Media, Military, Politics, Right Wing, Surveillance, Trump Administration, U.S.
The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls
Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
Commentary, Donald Trump, International Law, Legal, Military, Pentagon, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept.
Murder for Christmas?
By ordering the annihilation of people in speedboats in the Caribbean, Trump and Hegseth have assumed powers that numerous laws forbid, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival)
Yury Ushakov, Putin’s man on Ukraine, said there’s no firm plan for Ukraine yet and some American ideas are acceptable to Russia, some not. But the plan is not dead.
Cheney Died, Mamdani Won; Has a New Era Begun?
Dick Cheney died the day before Zohran Mamdani was elected NYC mayor. His funeral was the day before Mamdani met Trump. Are the two linked in a symbolic changing of the guard of U.S. politics? asks Joe Lauria.
Analysis, Column, Commentary, Free Speech, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine, Protest, Zionism
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank.
Patrick Lawrence: Pardon Me?
The festival of pardons that now features prominently in America’s political life offers a measure of how the republic, in its late-imperial phase, is crumbing.
Australia, Books, Colonialism, Commentary, Gaza, History, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, War Crimes
Hedges Report: Erasing Palestine
Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.
Civil Rights, Commentary, Free Speech, Gaza, Israel, Legal, Palestine, Protest, Terrorism, United Kingdon, War Crimes, Zionism
Jonathan Cook: High Court Trickery on Palestine Action
This looks like a stitch-up to extricate Keir Starmer and his ministers from the mess they have made of British terrorism laws — all so they can continue conspiring in Israel’s genocide.
Gaza Reveals How Britain Is Run
The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the illusion that the U.K. is a democracy. A mass movement is needed to address ten major issues, write Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock.
Analysis, Britain, Commentary, Economy, Europe, European Union, France, Germany, History, Intelligence, NATO, Poland, Politics, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United Nations, World War I, World War II, Yugoslavia
Europa Ante Novum Bellum (Europe Before the New War)
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
Analysis, Assassinations, Cold War, Commentary, Congo, Cuba, History, Intelligence, Soviet Union, United Nations
WATCH: Unspeakable Facts About JFK
James Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable, recounts how Patrice Lumumba was assassinated just three days before J.F.K. took office, and where Fidel Castro was when he learned of the murder in Dallas.
Ignoring JFK’s Warning on Russia
A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power.
What Defeat Looks Like
As in Potsdam at the end of the Second World War, the only path forward now is working out the terms of Ukraine’s defeat. And there is still time to save lives, writes Stefan Moore.
Analysis, Commentary, Europe, France, Germany, Neoconservatism, Russia, U.N. Security Council, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations
RAY McGOVERN: The Neocon-Realist War Over Ukraine
Trump holds the cards to end this war but he has to find the fortitude to stand up to the Europeans and the neocons he appointed.
After Decades, India Warms to the Taliban
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: as Afghanistan fights Pakistan, India opens ties with the Taliban, reports Betwa Sharma.
Biden Administration, Books, China, Commentary, Economy, NATO, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Trump Administration, U.S., United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Imperial Washington: Ozymandias on the Potomac
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.