What It Feels Like to Starve
By Mohammed R. Mhawish A year ago, I was living the same nightmare that 2.2 million people in Gaza are currently living: constant exhaustion, dehydration, rapid weight loss. It had been months since Israel had…
Conflict
Donald Trump’s Congo Venture
A Scramble for Minerals Under the Guise of Peace By Maurice Carney The Trump Administration brokered a vaunted peace agreement between the Republic of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on June…
Kenyan Police Attack Youth-led Demonstrations
By Abayomi Azikiwe Social unrest in the East African state of Kenya accelerated during mass demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of a police crackdown on youth protesters during 2024. In more recent developments, a blogger…
Haitians Criticize OAS International Mission
By Brasil de Fato Haitian intellectuals interviewed by Brasil de Fato harshly criticized the decision by the Organization of American States (OAS) to support the international security mission led by Kenya in Haiti. The OAS…
Venezuela Calls for Global Peace Summit and Israeli Denuclearization
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…
No Ordinary Solidarity
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…
SWIFT’s Decline How global powers are escaping the dollar trap
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…
Trump Wants Big Tech to Own the Dollar
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…
The Illegal Attack On Iran
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…
Global Nuclear Weapons Spending Surpassed $100 Billion Last Year
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…