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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: as Afghanistan fights Pakistan, India opens ties with the Taliban, reports Betwa Sharma.
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.
With a skyrocketing insurance premium forcing her to give up her health coverage, Melissa Garriga says she joins all the other people around the world harmed by U.S. militarism.
Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars, says Daniel McAdams. So goes Trump’s 28-point plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Intent on toppling Mexico’s popular president, local oligarchs and an international right-wing network backed a youth-led anti-corruption uprising, Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg report.
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West.
Two weeks have passed since the Red Fort attack in Delhi and the Indian response against Pakistan has been muted, unlike after an earlier terrorist attack in April, reports Betwa Sharma.
Antony Loewenstein discusses the ease with which Israel has used Gaza to experiment with tools of war and surveillance as a means of control as well as profit thanks to their grave human rights abuses.
Not only will Palestinian culture survive the genocide, but it is the people’s cultural resources that will help heal the children and provide them with a pathway back to some level of sanity.
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff.
The Western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on Oct. 7. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine.
Everyone wants change, but no one wants to change. The deus ex machina plot resolution is a fantasy and maintaining hope in fantasy is the first obstacle preventing change.
Backed by foreign powers, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a bloody war with devastating consequences for the Sudanese people.
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