By Andreína Chávez Alava Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro proposed a global “Summit for Peace and Against War” to establish a “lasting peace” in West Asia, with a focus on the dismantling of Israel’s undeclared nuclear…
Jewish Voices for Peace lead hunger strike for Gaza By Joseph Mogul Ash Bohrer sat in a wheelchair outside of the Chicago Federal Plaza, where they had been arrested for refusing to leave Sen. Tammy…
By Aidan J. Simardone The weaponization of global finance has become a cornerstone of US foreign policy. Central to this has been Washington’s control over the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a financial…
By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS — The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are usually placid, forgettable affairs. Not this year. Several central bankers returned home with a visceral sense of…
By Vijay Prashad Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore a sovereign…
By Jon Letman In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations increased spending on nuclear weapons, according to a report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons…
No country should go through what Venezuela has been going through since 2017. By Vijay Prashad U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures, or UCMs) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent…
Not More Health Care? Commentary by Katerina Canyon We already have the money for social programs. We just choose to spend it on war instead of on people. On March 17, 2025, DefenseScoop reported that…
Citizenship Interview By Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Mohsen Mahdawi showed up for what he thought was his citizenship interview. After 10 years of living, studying, and building a life in the U.S., this was supposed to be…
The rising danger of the global submarine nuclear arms race By Lynda Williams Right now, beneath the world’s oceans, approximately 30 nuclear-armed submarines patrol silently, virtually undetectable. These submarines represent humanity’s deadliest doomsday machines: stealthy,…