On Monday, August 30, at 3:29 p.m. Eastern Time, a C-17 transport plane took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, signaling the end of America’s longest war. It was a war that took the ...
On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August 8, Rwandan ...
Regional players have long accused the US of supporting the group with midnight helicopter transport into Afghanistan. (By: Alex Rubinstein, Substack) The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have ...
I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London on August 11 with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, ...
On February 18, 2010, Anadarko Moçambique—a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum (bought by Occidental Petroleum in 2019)—discovered a massive natural gas field in the Rovuma Basin off the coast of northern Mozambique. Over the next few years, some ...
Christian Sorensen is a novelist, military analyst, and independent journalist mainly focused on war profiteering within the military-industrial complex. An Air Force veteran, he is the author of the recently published book, Understanding the War ...
Cuba, like every other country on the planet, is struggling with the impact of COVID-19. This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade ...
Doug Valentine is the author of The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World and The Phoenix Program: Americas Use of Terror in Vietnam.
While right-wing Cubans in Miami call him “comunista,” Carlos Lazo has no time for ideology. He is neither for or against the Cuban government; he is for the Cuban people, the Cuban families. And he ...
As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades ...
Let’s hope Biden has learned another history lesson: that the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries. At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that ...
Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements, and biographies on some of Africa’s most important ...
Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, & war. He has ...
Most Chileans recently voted out the remnants of military dictator Augusto Pinochet, along with Milton Friedman’s policies and many U.S. interventions. They are at work on a radically new Constitution. In the United States, former ...
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June ...
Danny Haiphong is a co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. He is also a contributing editor at Black Agenda ...
In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa. (By: Scott Timcke, Africa is a Country) — One striking ...
Javiera Reyes, who is 31 years old, is the new mayor of the Santiago municipality of Lo Espejo in Chile. “I grew up in a home where [former President of Chile] Salvador Allende was always ...
Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) Pedro Castillo of the Perú Libre party has already begun to receive congratulations from around the ...
Naftali Bennett is at best a continuation of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s. After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed ...
The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels. The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for ...
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed ...
Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War.
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered. A 227kg laser-guided bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of many thousands, was part ...
With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: ...
Since the end of April, Colombia’s streets have smelled of tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposed policies that put the costs of the pandemic on the working class and the peasantry and tried to suffocate any advancement of the Havana ...
Biden ignores the crisis in Cuba at his own peril. Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign ...
There’s nothing new about this, which is why I know it’s there before having seen the new budget proposal. The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains ...
Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett is the author of Media Imperialism. He is a professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a professor emeritus at of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
The Background Xinjiang, a province of northwestern China, accounts for 640,000 square miles, equal to two-thirds the size of continental Europe. It is China’s largest region, but mostly desert, and produces a fifth of the ...
The newly-touted “rules-based order” by the U.S. is its latest smokescreen for a foreign policy based on illegal threats and uses of force and a doctrine of “might makes right.” The world is reeling in ...
Raed ShakShak is a resident of Gaza and the outreach coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a degree in English language and literature.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6 percent more than the $704 billion enacted under Trump’s administration. ...
No one can ignore the events in Palestine. No one disputes the horror of it all. Images of the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the human toll exacted against the Palestinians who live in Gaza ...
Ahmed grew up in Gaza, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from al-Azher University and was the inspiration for/original project manager for We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s prestigious ...
U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways: militarily, diplomatically and politically. The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in ...
There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories – one read and watched in the news and another that receives little media coverage or due analysis. (By: Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News) There are two separate Sheikh ...
In the face of a state that assassinates its own people, the Colombian people remain on the streets and continue resisting. As police and military forces in Colombia use violence to try to repress the ...
“Israel’s violence has a clear purpose: ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of Palestinians to allow Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes.” (By: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams) More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one ...
Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on ...
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds. On October 11, 2001, ...
Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and commentator. His newest book is Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, & Assassinations. Transcript Coming Soon.
Even before the crisis of the pandemic, food delivery companies have seen their profits skyrocket while their so-called “self-employed” workers suffer rights violations and were banned from unionizing. On February 22, 2019, at 6 p.m., ...
“Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and Road, connecting not only westward to West Asia, Europe, the Red Sea, and Africa, but also southward to the Indian ...
After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then President Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists ...
For a president who promised a new era of American diplomacy, this has been a dreadful start. President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few ...
Garett Reppenhagen is the son of a Vietnam Veteran and grandson of two World War II Veterans. He served in the U.S. Army as a Cavalry/Scout Sniper in the 1st Infantry Division. Garett completed a ...
On March 22, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the ...
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq—he resigned when the UN ...
Originally published in Jacobin Magazine Just as talks between the United States and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Reports are that the Mossad, ...
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