The agreement is not a step toward normalization, says As`ad AbuKhalil. Lebanon is split.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Lebanon & the Deal with Israel on the Maritime Border
Category: Commentary
Secrecy & Empire
Under the guise of protecting the national interest, Australia’s security establishment acts in secret to uphold the global U.S.-led imperial order, writes Clinton Fernandes.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: War as Presentation
As the U.S. midterm elections approach, the gap between Western media’s depiction of the war in Ukraine and the actual war waged on the ground appears to be widening more dramatically.
The About-Face by US Lawmakers
Pursuing diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine is not a radical concept, writes Marjorie Cohn. Indeed, international law requires it.
‘Military Madness:’ US Deploys Nuclear-Capable B-52s to Australia
This escalation of U.S. hostility comes just days after the Biden administration released a Nuclear Posture Review that nonproliferation advocates said makes catastrophe more, rather than less, likely.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: American Gulag
Western journalists are providing breathless depictions of the harsh conditions facing U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in Russia. Have none of them been inside a U.S. prison?
UK Think Tank Behind Truss’ Program Lives On
Sunak has installed several of the Institute of Economic Affairs’ biggest supporters in his cabinet and made one of its former staff members his chief spin doctor, writes Adam Bychawski.
Britons Face More Austerity, Weaker Rights Under Sunak
Rishi Sunak’s policy history and cabinet appointments have raised fears of even more benefits cuts and a drastic curtailing of basic rights, says Tanupriya Singh.
All at Once Mainstream Pundits Push for WW III
Caitlin Johnstone says it should disturb everyone in the nuclear age that writers at influential publications frame the rise of a multipolar world as something that must inevitably bring on unspeakable violence and human suffering.
Exxon, Chevron Rake in Massive Profits
Despite the evidence of price gouging, Joe Biden has so far declined to endorse a windfall profits tax, opting instead to demand voluntary action from fossil fuel executives.