By Nalliah Thayabharan Germany’s political landscape is undergoing a seismic shift as the Bundestag has been officially dissolved triggering snap elections that could reshape the nation’s future.  President Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the dramatic announcement on December 27, 2024 marking a critical moment in German Democratic history. The dissolution follows Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unexpected loss of […]

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By Nalliah Thayabharan The Israeli regime has failed in Gaza. It’s been almost 15 months and they fail to take Gaza. Slaughtering thousands of children and women is not a victory. We see Israeli operations taking place daily in Gaza and a number of Israelis have been killed over the past few days. So Gaza […]

Vijay Prasad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies’ profits soar. These […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan The United States has enacted strict export restrictions designed to limit China’s access to vital Technologies especially within the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries. These actions which include placing major Chinese companies like HUAWEI and SMIC on the Blacklist, expanding the foreign direct product rule and controlling the export of advanced semiconductor […]

By Connor Echols A half-baked report highlights the double standard US officials use for IsraelMay 13, 2024 On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken struck back at claims that U.S. officials let Israel dodge American laws regarding weapons transfers. We don’t have double standards,” Blinken said. We treat Israel, one of […]

By Alan Macleod Dec 12, 2024 Corporate media is heralding the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as the new leader of Syria, despite his deep ties to both al-Qaeda and ISIS. How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from an article in Britain’s Daily […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan Canada’s deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, quit her job, just before she was set to deliver the latest budget, like calling in sick before an important meeting that you know you can’t handle. The $62 billion deficit that was set to be announced – $22 billion more than […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos .Courtesy defenddemocracy In my previous article on Syria I argued that there is a Damascus-Tehran (not forgetting Lebanon and Palestine) train that is now preparing to depart”. The ink on the article did not have time to ‘dry’, so to speak, since no ink is used anymore, and the train started to […]

Judge Napolitano – Judging

Jeffrey St. Clair Courtesy CounterPunch. With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms with the American regime and opened his dungeons to the CIA for […]

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

Courtesy The Week Adani Ports opts out of DFC loan from the US, cutting American involvement in the development of the Colombo West International Terminal in Sri Lanka to counter Chinese influence In a new development to the growing strain between the US and Indian industrialist Gautam Adani following his DOJ and SEC indictments last […]

Republic World CIA & Turkey bribed the Syrian Generals to give it away.

Mike Whitney  Courtesy The UNZ Review The black flag of Salafist Islam has been raised over Damascus. ISIS/Al Qaeda has won…. The same terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. Whom we waged war against in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Losing thousands of our servicemen and women. Costing trillions of dollars. They won. And we helped them. America […]

By Nalliah Thayabharan  The role of Turkey to have al-Qaeda rule over Syria is pretty interesting. Of course, Erdogan has a long history in the Syrian Dirty War where he had openly backed the fundamentalist forces. Erdogan has now created a multinational terrorist organization and was able to organize them under one command to have […]

India & Global Left

CLRCUT Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sits down with Tucker Carlson in an explosive interview, discussing U.S.-Russia relations, the ongoing Ukraine conflict, and the rising nuclear tensions between the two powers. Lavrov dives deep into the concept of “hybrid war,” Russia’s red lines, and the use of hypersonic weapons as a message to the West. […]

from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from their territories. From the western border of Sudan to the […]

La 2de Guerre Mondiale On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., a bright flash set the sky over Hiroshima ablaze. A gigantic column of smoke rises above the city. The first nuclear bomb in history has just been dropped on the largest metropolis in western Japan. This new documentary shows this tragedy from the inside […]

Courtesy Sputnik Serial production of the Oreshnik system has begun, the Russian president announced. Last week, the Russian leader revealed the successful testing of the new Oreshnik hypersonic missile system. Today, at the request of colleagues, he shared further details. “Serial production of the Oreshnik has started, but ultimately, we will choose the means of destruction […]

Speech by Christos Marsellos, Delphi Initiative, Defend Democracy Press, Author, Greece, at the European Conference on 2 November 2024 The dual need: new geopolitical balance, new social pact There can be no doubt: we are experiencing an acceleration of history. This could lead to the catastrophic prospect of a world war, potentially involving nuclear weapons. In […]

Courtesy Defend Democracy India has rejected the $300 billion global climate finance deal adopted at the COP29 Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, expressing disappointment over the lack of commitment from developed nations. Nov 24, 2024 Indian representative Chandni Raina criticized the agreement, calling it insufficient to address the scale of challenges faced by developing countries. Supported […]

Courtesy AdaDerana The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a summons to Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, indicted on U.S. bribery allegations related to a bombshell federal indictment against him, a court filing showed. The SEC is suing the head of the Adani Group and his nephew Sagar Adani, alleging they engaged in hundreds of […]

L. Michael Hager FacebookTwitterReddit When a political party loses its legitimacy, its traditional priorities and moral compass, its candidates lose elections. Opting not to hold an open convention, which would have tested political viability, the DNC (acting on the President’s recommendation) invited Kamala Harris to replace Biden on the ticket.  For many Democrats, the lack […]

Dave Lindorff Courtesy Counterpunch There is no justifiable explanation for lame duck President Joe Biden’s sudden turnabout decision to okay Ukraine’s use of longer-range US ATACMS ballistic missiles t which can hit targets as much as 200 miles inside Russia. Biden and his ironically-dubbed national security brain trust” of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and […]

Ibrahim Khalil Ahasan,  Dhaka, Bangladesh The Palestinian issue is a long-standing humanitarian crisis that has been going on for almost seven decades. The Palestinian people have been living under constant Israeli occupation, oppression, and illegal settlements. This crisis is not limited to Palestine and Israel; rather, it has become a global conscience call for international […]

By Alfred McCoy Courtesy TomDispatch Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that the demise of the United States as the global superpower […]

Vijay Prashad Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Indigenous leader Lidia Thorpe confronts King Charles III during his visit to Australia. (Screengrab from X.) If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Perth, Australia, you can overlook the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view. Across the bay, there is a phalanx of steel and […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 19 November 2024 – Global business leaders, policymakers and innovators have dropped anchor in Asia’s world city for Hong Kong Maritime Week 2024 (HKMW) (November 17 – 23), an annual flagship event comprising conferences, exhibitions and networking activities under the broad theme of “Navigating to a Greener […]