As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. As we stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism, we face two stark choices.
Chris Hedges: Tyranny or Revolution
Category: U.S.
Fusing the US Military and the IDF
A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship, writes Alan MacLeod.
Sumud as Collective Endurance in Gaza
In Gaza the extended family provides the central means by which endurance, mobility and survival are continuously negotiated amid extreme disruption during Israel’s genocidal war, writes Abdalrahman Kittana.
The World After America
Alfred W. McCoy on the the causes and consequences at home and abroad of U.S. global decline.
Imperial Dreams Sink in the Persian Gulf
As U.S. leaders realize the limits of their imperial reach, the American people are realizing their power to insist on making peace, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies.
Ben-Gvir Says Israel ‘Will Not Allow’ Iran Peace Deal
As Israel continued its “Gaza model” of mass slaughter and expanding occupation in Lebanon, its security minister said the “whole cabinet” opposed ending the war on Iran, Stephen Prager reports.
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.
Vijay Prashad: Trump in Beijing, Hat in Hand
For the Global South, Xi’s calmness at the summit offered an example of how to engage an unstable imperialist power. The United States remains militarily dangerous, but it no longer possesses unquestioned political authority.
China & a World Order on the Verge of Collapse
The bilateral guardrails erected in Beijing last week may buy time, but they do not fix global governance institutions drifting toward a rupture that historically has preceded systemic collapse, writes Tatiana Carayannis.
The Central Node of Great-Power Politics
Beijing’s influence now extends well beyond the Indo-Pacific and reaches into Europe in ways Washington cannot ignore, writes Alexander Korolev.