By Michael Hudson / Geopolitical Economy Report Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and… Read More Michael Hudson: War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World
NB: Truth be told the happy couple look like inflatable crocs themselves. DS Angela Giuffrida in Venice Campaigners in Venice have claimed victory after Jeff Bezos was reportedly forced to change the venue for his wedding celebrations in the city as his guests started arriving on Tuesday for the three-day jamboree. The main reception for the wedding of Bezos… Read More Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles
Among the dozens killed are 13 aid seekers, as NGO warns Israel is also deliberately blocking energy access. At least 43 people have been killed in various Israeli attacks since dawn as the military relentlessly pounds the besieged enclave, medical sources say, with the overall Palestinian death toll in the war surpassing a staggering 56,000.… Read More Israel kills at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid seekers
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files. He suddenly stopped. “It was devastation,” he said finally. “I can’t go back there. I don’t dwell… Read More ‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Residents of two Nigerian communities who are taking legal action against Shell over oil pollution are set to take their cases to trial at the high court in 2027. Members of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger delta, which have a combined population of about 50,000, are suing Shell and a Nigerian-based subsidiary… Read More Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution
NB: 626 days of slaughtering Palestinians with tanks and aircraft: 187,519 killed (including 17,492 dead children). Ten days of fighting with a real army, we have a cease fire. IDF: the most moral army in the world. DS If Iran actually closes the Strait of Hormuz, the global economy doesn’t wobble—it crashes headfirst into the… Read More Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
The fact is that in 50 years, India’s democracy has swung between two extremes – from two years of the ‘darkest period’ to ten-plus years of the ‘deep-dark period.’ M.G. Devasahayam June 26, 2025, is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Emergency. As the anniversary year dawned in 2024, the top honchos of the ruling… Read More Fifty Years After the Emergency, India’s Democracy Is Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
NB: Except that it neither was, nor is a mistake, Owen; its deliberate deception. DS Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality Owen Jones As the G7 issues a statement declaring that Israel has a “right to defend itself”, you have a… Read More The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran
It’s a breakthrough moment for a language long left out of the global literary conversation. By Iqbal Bhat It’s not often a novel written in Kashmiri reaches the global stage. But on June 16, that changed. At the Himal Southasian Fiction Fest, a big announcement was made. The 1975 novel To Each Their Own Hell by Akhtar Mohiuddin won… Read More For the First Time, a Kashmiri Novel Crosses Borders, Wins Global Spotlight
The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself Mohamad Bazzi In May 2003, George W Bush landed on the deck of a US aircraft carrier to deliver a triumphant speech, declaring that major combat operations in Iraq had ended – six weeks after he had ordered US troops to invade the country.… Read More Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie
After the truth-shower 