The United States has a long history of meddling in the political affairs of other nations and using shadowy military and espionage techniques as a means of overthrowing governments seen as being a threat to ...
From the drug war to Plan Colombia to support for right-wing paramilitary groups, decades of US interference in Colombia has caused so much instability that to this day, the country is still reeling from it. ...
Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars—from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University—looked at raw evidence ...
Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled “To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy” and “If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The ...
British soldier Ahmed Al-Babati has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s role in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A British soldier has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris was able to visit him with their children at Belmarsh prison for the first time since March of this year, and reports that his physical condition has deteriorated ...
Mainstream outlets are largely ignoring the IDF’s near-daily attacks, which began in early August. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Israeli air and ground forces continued to attack Gaza Monday while continuing to tighten a devastating ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump adviser Jared Kushner are hitting the road in an attempt to strong-arm more Arab states into normalizing relations with Israel, turning their backs on Palestine and isolating Iran. ...
Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread of Ebola. Dr. Báez was one of 165 Cuban doctors of the Henry ...
A pillar of the antiwar movement, Diana Johnstone provides critical insights from her time working in Associated Press and AFP newsrooms in the US and Europe and much more. (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Diana ...
Whether the pandemic’s effect on inequality will be felt for many years to come will depend on whether government action. (Common Dreams) Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. ...
Not much, apart from football, unites the Colombian people. If a 2014 Interior Ministry survey called “The Power of Football” is to be believed, then 94 percent of the Colombian population say that football is either important ...
Lebanon’s current tragedy is the perfect opportunity for its former colonial masters to stage a comeback. (Common Dreams) French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political ...
According to a new Oxfam analysis, the Saudi Coalition has carried out the equivalent of “one air raid every ten days during the conflict affecting hospitals, clinics, ambulances, water drills, tanks and trucks,” since it ...
Israeli leaders have characterized the latest bombardment as retaliatory, citing “incendiary balloons” and “riots” as justification. (By: Kathryn Shihadah, Mintpress News) Last Monday night Israeli fighter jets executed airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip for ...
On November 10, 2019, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia announced his resignation from the presidency. Morales had been elected in 2014 to a third presidential term, which should have lasted until January 2020. In November 2019, ...
“The fact that explosives designed to rip apart human anatomy are dropped from the sky many times per day for no other reason than to exert control over foreign countries should horrify us all.” (Caitlin ...
Clashes between protesters and government-backed paramilitaries are growing increasingly violent as tensions in Bolivia reach a boiling point following the US-backed Anez administration’s decision to cancel elections for the third time this year. (By: Alan ...
Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Hojad Soltani, said that neither the ships nor their owners are Iranian but did not address whether the gasoline came from his country. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In an escalation ...
“I have never in my career faced so much difficulty attempting to trial monitor as in Julian Assange’s case.” — Rebecca Vincent, Director of International Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
This agreement is more about shoring up Trump’s slumping electoral campaign and improving Netanyahu’s battered image in Israel than bringing peace to the Middle East. “HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the ...
The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back manufacturing that the U.S. and European ...
A report issued by the State Department’s Inspector General found that US arms sales raise the possibility of civilians getting killed, but also finds that the guy who sells the guns, Mike Pompeo, did nothing ...
“Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his nation’s inoculation is safe for a mass audience, despite the fact that it has not yet finished its final round of testing.” As the world races to develop ...
Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí, Brazil. “It is very difficult,” she says of her job these days. Brazil has just passed 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, with ...
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light ...
“The influence that Russia, China or Iran could exert over public opinion in the United States is a tiny fraction of that which is exerted by the unaccountable US billionaire media every single day” (Caitlin ...
“The Galician and Basque elections have revealed yet another example of the generational tensions – between left-wing youth and conservatively-inclined older voters – that have in recent years emerged as one of the most significant ...
On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Venezuela. Appearing before the committee was U.S. State Department Special Representative Elliott Abrams. Abrams, who has had a long—and controversial—career in the formation ...
“The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable.” (Caitlin Johnstone) “The aim of ...
Some countries have confirmed that they are entering a recession, a condition when a country’s growth is negative in two successive quarters. COVID-19 has severely impacted global healthcare and the economy. The pandemic has hit ...
“Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent people from Guatemala to Iraq.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Following the resignation ...
“We must never allow this painful past to repeat itself.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The mayor of Hiroshima on Thursday warned of the ongoing dangers of nationalism and militarism on the 75th anniversary of ...
Geopolitical contests between the U.S. and China hinge on technology more than the ability to deploy a gunboat somewhere; Taiwan could resemble a prototype for a tech proxy war. The media likes to dabble in ...
A Delaware-based company formed by a former American diplomat, a CEO of a private mercenary company and an old hand in the oil business has inked a deal with U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels to develop crude ...
International politics and pressure could shape the future. On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised he would annex part of the Jordan Valley. He did not, but he may still do so before ...
“I went around Beirut today after the blast. The damage is shocking. Every single residential building, every shop, every hotel, every restaurant, almost nothing left untouched by the pressure from the blast. The streets are ...
The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet. Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election ...
According to a poll, 53% of Americans view China as an “enemy” One week ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a fiery speech on China at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. Many of the ...
Indigenous peoples are calling for an immediate moratorium on extraction from the Amazon. (Common Dreams) Since I was a child in the 1980’s I have heard calls to protect the Amazon. I remember watching videos ...
Yemen is being devastated by brutal war and COVID. They do NOT need an oil spill poisoning their coasts on top of everything else. A degenerating Yemeni oil tanker sitting miles off the coast of ...
The moves are believed by experts to be information gathering operations, attempting to track the positions of Chinese submarines and pinpoint coastal defenses as the US increases the tension with Beijing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
The National Priorities Project has put together a list of ten better uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The majority of House ...
“This shows clearly that Israel doesn’t care about Palestinian lives…They can’t even give us our basic rights to healthcare so we can treat our people from the coronavirus.” –Tayseer Abu Sneineh, Mayor of Hebron (By: ...
In an article in Foreign Affairs in March titled, “Why America Must Lead Again,” Joe Biden claimed that “the world doesn’t organize itself,” and promised to “put the U.S. back at the head of the table” among the ...
Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital ...
A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot to ...