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In February 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US President George W. Bush stood before a small gathering of journalists and dismissedswirling rumors with a chuckle. The United States, he claimed, had no intention…
Read articleWhen we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though it falls upon everyone equally and in the same way. Yet a critical…
Read articleHow can one take a straight, razor-sharp steel blade, pair it with a cold, rock-hard, lifeless surface, and create an explosion of gracefully curving, joyfully passionate, life-affirming beauty? Watch 1988 Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano do…
Read articleThere are moments in geopolitics where reality becomes so absurd it feels like satire — and yet, it’s official policy. The word “narcotrafficking” has now become one of those magic labels politicians use not to describe crime, but…
Read articleLet’s start with the basics. We are told this is “one of the deadliest and longest-running wars on the planet.” Millions dead, villages erased, women raped on an industrial scale, more than seven million displaced. In human terms,…
Read articleTechnological innovation is far outpacing social, economic, and political innovation to our extreme peril. More precisely, the implementation of technological innovation, driven by profit motives, is suppressing our potential to harness advancements in all of these…
Read articleUS President Donald Trump has authorised the USS Gerald R. Ford to enter the Caribbean. It now floats north of Puerto Rico, joining the USS Iwo Jimaand other US navy assets to threaten Venezuela with an attack. Tensions are high in…
Read articleLands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation.
Read articleAs a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once believed I knew what genocide…
Read articleKhalid Elwalid in Khartoum ‘Hemedti’ now controls all of Darfur, continuing the genocide that began with the Janjaweed. Source: THE CONTINENT The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized El Fasher this week after besieging the city for…
Read article“A dictator is a dictator — male or female. Power wears no gender.” The Mirage of Progress They said it was a new dawn.A woman at the helm. A symbol of progress, inclusion, and hope.The world…
Read articleIn On a Highway to Hell, former weapons inspector and anti-nuclear activist Scott Ritter alerted us to an ominous threshold crossed last September, warning that “by allowing the US nuclear posture to shift from deterrence to employment…
Read articleMy analysis of the beginnings of cracks in NATO had been published with a short delay, just enough to become obsolete. I pointed to the two referendum initiatives in Slovenia -one on military spending and the other on…
Read articleCampbell congratulates the Senegalese people on the eviction of the French military presence from their soil in a discussion of France’s nefarious neo-colonial practices in Africa Introduction One of the most ignominious records of any military…
Read articleAs AI adoption accelerates, its soaring energy demands and carbon footprint raise urgent concerns about sustainability, highlighting the need for greener technologies and policies to mitigate its environmental impact.
Read articleBy Kay Young The long-simmering border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand has escalated into open violence, with both sides exchanging artillery and air fire near the ancient Preah Vihear temple complex. At the time of writing,…
Read articleBy Chris Hedges The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law. When the history of the genocide in…
Read articleRwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to self-defense in DRC. Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been denied bail and remanded to prison in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali,…
Read articleSomaliland officials, led by former President Muse Bihi, pose with US military and diplomatic officials after meeting at the Egal International Airport in Hargeisa. Somaliland aspires to be an “independent” US military enclave in the Horn…
Read articlePoverty is, unfortunately, all too common in Our America and in even more distant latitudes. However, it tends to be under represented in media analyses of our region, with the clear exception of a group of…
Read articleRobert Amalemba in Nairobi Over the weekend, Kenyans learned that a 31-year-old teacher and blogger, Albert Ojwang, had died in police custody. He was arrested in Homa Bay, a town on the Kenyan shores of Lake…
Read articleIn recent months, the viability of France’s nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French “nuclear umbrella”that might shield its allies on the European continent. In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, and Russian…
Read articleRwanda has just launched another major communication campaign by announcing that it is in talks with the Trump administration about a potential agreement to accept migrants deported from the United States. At first glance, this might…
Read articleNATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world. Medea Benjamin and David Swanson explain NATO’s supremely violent history in NATO: What…
Read article[Prefatory Note: The post below is based on my responses to Murat Sofuoglu, a journalist working for TRT World in Turkey devoted to the Reappointment of Francesca Albanese, published on 4/3/25. Although the article relies on…
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