Opinion

Is civilisation at stake in Ukraine?

‘TO DEFEND civilisation, defeat Russia.’ Writing in the unfailingly bellicose Atlantic, an American academic of my acquaintance recently issued that dramatic call to arms. And lest there be any confusion

Can political ecology save us?

Evaggelos Vallianatos : Prologue ECOLOGY in America barely exists. Business as usual capitalism is so entrenched, it acts like a religion. It has its hierarchies of billionaires, and armies of

US weapons makers on a marketing spree

WHEN Southcom commander Laura Richardson starts talking about sending weapons to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, you know something’s up. That something is ‘money’ and ‘new markets’ for United States arms

Syrian relief leader urges US to lift sanctions

Kenny Stancil: A DISASTER response expert has implored the United States to lift its economic sanctions against Syria, warning that the restrictions are hampering rescue and relief operations in the

Poverty amidst plenty

Liz Theoharis wirtes on a world fragmented by inequality A FEW weeks ago, the world’s power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town,

Zionism’s ‘three state solution’

Vijay Prashad: ISRAEL calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year, 2023, will be the 75th year after the Nakba,

The unfolding case of Iran

If we follow Marx that ‘material force must be overthrown by material force’, we can anticipate that though ‘refolutions’ create informal democratic spaces, they may not result in fundamental political

US officials knew they were crossing over

Branko Marcetic: NEARLY a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in president Joe Biden’s own