TRANSCRIPT ADDED: In an interview in Berlin, German journalist Patrik Babb explains the rise of the new German militarism and why Germany is so obedient to the U.S.
LISTEN: The Rise of the New German Militarism
Category: Commentary
WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Mamdani 5 Months Later’
Theodore Hamm, author of Meet Mayor Mamdani, joins CN Live! to assess Zohran Mamdani’s first five months in office as New York City’s socialist mayor. 8 pm EDT tonight, Wednesday.
V. Prashad: Interval of Time
With the resurgence of socialist politics among young voters in the West comes a resurgence of attacks. Vijay Prashad looks at the early obstacles societies faced in trying to build socialism post revolution.
WATCH: Target Cuba
Ray McGovern discusses the immediate threat to Cuba in the context of the history of U.S. hostility to the Caribbean island stretching back to his earliest days at the C.I.A. in 1963, just months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Rape, Assault & Abuse Reflect Israeli Gov Values
Ann Wright reports on Gaza Flotilla survivors’ accounts of horrifying abuse by Israeli forces — of the same sort suffered by Palestinians without any international official protest.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Cokehead of Kiev, Exposed
Let all the delusions and illusions of the past five years — or 12, if you begin your count with the U.S.–sponsored coup in Kiev back in 2014 — finally fade like the flags.
WATCH: McGovern, Ritter Play Putin & Gerasimov
Reacting to the Ukrainian slaughter of 21 students asleep in their Donbass dormitory, Ray McGovern as Vladimir Putin and Scott Ritter as Valery Gerasimov act out their impromptu, imagined interaction between the Russian president and the chief of the general…
Michael Brenner: Hegemony?
Jonathan Cook: Western Democracy?
Western societies are not led by individuals. Rather, they are shaped by structural forces that reward the super rich and operate like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Chaos of the Old Order’
Xi and Putin say unilateral efforts to rule the world “have failed” and “a new type of international relations” emerges despite “neocolonial tendencies” bringing the “law of the jungle.” Trump mad over Iran and mulls Cuba invasion. Watch the replay.