Category: World
As Baghdad tries to please Trump, Iran tells Iraqi militias not to disarm
Esmail Qaani has a habit of not announcing his visits to Baghdad. He simply appears, meets whoever needs meeting, and leaves before most…
Why would the Pentagon want to hide weapons testing results?
The Pentagon says it removed 25 years worth of annual weapons testing reports from public view late last month, a move that critics…
Rolling Stone hits hysterical note suggesting Putin NATO attack nigh
The Ukraine war has become fertile ground for a dangerously misguided way of thinking about the dynamics between Russia and the West —…
UN Reiterates its 18-Year-Old Ban on Smoking
When smoking was common in the corridors of the UN, in the delegate’s lounge and in committee rooms during the 1970s and 90s,…
GAZA: ‘There Are No Standards to Tell You What to Do in Conditions like Gaza’
CIVICUS discusses the state of civic and humanitarian action in Gaza with Ibrahim Arandas, a Palestinian activist and project manager at SPARK…
Remembering Fidel Castro, a Hero of the World’s Oppressed People
The 13th of August marked the 100th birthday of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz – in short Fidel Castro. Amidst an…
The Mecca Pact could be an opportunity for Iran
The Mecca Pact ranks among the most momentous developments to have reshaped the Middle East since the upheavals that followed the Hamas attacks…
An independent Europe means no more US rooster in the henhouse
NATO continues to prepare for life without the United States, at least as the dominant alliance member. “Europeans are already backfilling what the…
Officials say ‘America-hating’ media to blame for USS Lincoln outrage
Over the past week, Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has…
US cries foul as Israel bombs Turkey-linked airbase in Syria
On Tuesday, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase that Turkish officials have been helping to renovate, marking the latest escalation in the Israeli government’s…
