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Use this interactive platform, created in partnership with Law for Palestine, to show the relationship between statements of genocidal intent by Israeli leaders and the conduct of the Israeli military in Gaza through four thematic chapters: civilian harm, starvation, destruction of infrastructure, and forced displacement. Under international law, the crime of genocide requires both intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part, and the actual execution of one or more genocidal acts. Israeli leaders have made — and …

The Kenyan state has demonstrated a consistent and brutal willingness to deploy state terror against organized political dissent, targeting revolutionary leaders, working-class organizers, and anti-colonial voices with impunity. Past cases have laid bare the state’s methods: the violent abduction, torture, and illegal detention of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, followed by the grotesque inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture was framed with fabricated assault charges. Today, as French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosts the France Africa  Summit, rebranded as “Africa Forward 2026” in Nairobi with President William Ruto—announcing €23 billion …

It’s tough to even write about the barbaric savagery of Israel — not just because the research seems to destroy your own humanity but also because it seems like the truth couldn’t possibly be the truth. No government could be this horrific. No military could be this repulsive. And yet they are.

Recently, the facts have begun coming to light about Israel’s use of systematic rape and sexual assault as a weapon. Even the normally pro-Israel, pro-genocide New York Times put out …

Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has not been without its troubles, not helped by the increasingly snarky relationship it shares with the group’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia. To be part of such a group entails mindful restraint, an understanding about production targets and a curbing of individual initiative. The statute of the group states its goal: to “devise ways and means of ensuring the stabilisation of prices in international oil markets …

The G7 economists’ memo from March and the IMF’s April report on global imbalances arrived at the same prescription: China’s current account surplus is excessive and should be cut by boosting consumption.

The diagnosis is wrong. The world economy, especially emerging markets and developing economies, benefits from China’s high saving.

A current account surplus is the excess of national saving over domestic investment. The saving is not lost; it is exported abroad in the form of net capital outflows, with an equivalent increase of China’s financial claims on the rest of the world.

These claims add to …

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Eight pivotal facts about Covid-period (2020-2025) excess mortality are described:

Fact #1: The scale of excess all-cause mortality during the Covid period was 0.13 % of population per year
Fact #2: The Covid-period excess mortality was not caused by a spreading respiratory pathogen
Fact #3: Most Covid-period excess mortality in young adults and the youth is not assigned to respiratory conditions (COVID-19)
Fact #4: Excess mortality during the Covid period was highly heterogeneous, tied to imposed measures and medical protocols in specific jurisdictions and locations and in specific population groups
Fact #5: The …

On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in its efforts to subjugate Iran. The article says much about Kagan’s own identification with the obvious, some feat given the military fancy and fantasy that continues to blot the current Trump administration.

Be that as it may, he finds the Iran War dishing out a defeat to the United States of unique quality, one that “can neither be repaired nor ignored.” No ultimate American …

There are ages when humanity forgets how to listen, and ours is unmistakably one of them. We speak constantly, argue reflexively, and broadcast without pause, yet we rarely hear anything beyond the echo of our own convictions. The world is saturated with noise but starved of understanding. Listening — once a basic human discipline — has become a fragile and endangered practice.

We listen to respond, not to understand. We listen to defend, not to discern. We listen to win, not to witness.

In this collapse of listening, something fundamental has been forfeited: the capacity to recognize one another’s humanity.

In 2022, a Stanford-trained physician who’d quit her surgical residency to start a continuous-glucose-monitor company was largely unknown outside Silicon Valley wellness circles. Her brother, a Harvard MBA who’d worked in food and pharma consulting, was less known than that.

By 2024, Casey and Calley Means had co-authored a bestselling book, advised a presidential campaign, helped flip RFK Jr. into Trump’s coalition, and become the public faces of “Make America Healthy Again.” In May 2025, Casey was nominated for Surgeon General. In April 2026, the nomination was withdrawn.

Two years from …

The concepts that shaped the minds that eagerly approve of the genocide, buried in the Old Testament and in the history of independent Jewish governing, are targets for extinction, Zionist behavior today includes a messianic endeavor that complements the original political Zionism and aligns with behavior of Jews in ancient history. This is a significant change that demands revelation. Theodore Herzl’s incipient Zionism, promoted by secular Jews, brought havoc to the Middle East; the messianic attachment is creating havoc to the entire world.

No longer are Jews and their religion veiled from criticism; the protective shield of anti-Semitism has been lifted …

The public-private distinction is one of the most crucial distinctions to have emerged in society over the past few centuries.

Each realm has distinct legal, economic, political, and cultural dimensions. For example, many spaces, activities, and lived experiences inhabit the private sphere (e.g., the home) while many others occupy the public sphere (e.g., broad social public debate).

Importantly, the public and private spheres should not be confounded or blurred, as so often happens. Each sphere has its own aims, structures, and functions. Public and private are actually antonyms.

A major problem today is that both concepts are routinely trivialized, distorted, or blurred by …

Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000)

Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious moment, brick walls appear as doorways, and everything seems possible. Nemesis lies in wait.

Having taken just six weeks and one day to conquer all of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in 1940, Hitler said of his plans to invade the Soviet Union the …

British antiwar protesters during the Suez crisis September 12, 1956. Photo: Socialist Worker archive

Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shift in the economic tides but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind …

Being very much the all-American figure that he was, Ted Turner’s passing was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotted descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist, the yachtsman, the sporting proprietor, and the twenty-four-hour news pioneer. “He thought big and lived large,” observed Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan with irritating triteness. “He was the original,” added former CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, barely an improvement. “He made us all strive for his vision of a better world.”  No doubt the hagiographers will be kept busy with words of statuary on various aspects of his life in due course.

One contribution …