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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Finnish President Alexander Stubb recently laid out a road map for middle-power action in The Economist, having recognized the importance of actively taking on the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be. Their joint commentary is a summer sequel to Carney’s viral speech at Davos in January and Stubb’s December Foreign Affairs article on how to build a new global order before it’s too late. Carney’s declaration of a rupture in the international order, and public denouncement of the US administration’s lawlessness, was a shot Source link
As Fidel Castro’s centenary approaches, Cuba’s elite thrive in luxury while the majority suffer from extreme poverty and failing infrastructure that the regime neglects. Source link
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Fidel Castro would have turned 100 this week. His revolutionary legacy of reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity. I was only sixteen years old when I first set eyes on Fidel Castro at the 1983 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in India. When Fidel, who would have turned 100 this week, met Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at the conference venue, he broke protocol and gave her a giant bear hug. Fidel loved India, something I would learn…
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire On 24 July 2026, the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to remove Khan as prosecutor, making him the first person ever removed from the post. Most coverage treated the decision as the conclusion of a disciplinary process; however, the chronology tells a completely different story. The pressure campaign against Khan began in the spring of 2024, weeks before he filed applications for arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, and before any allegation of misconduct had entered the Court’s internal system. British and American officials warned him against proceeding. Twelve Republican senators threatened…
Nigel Farage and the Great Westminster Vanishing Act Source link
Benny Schaft, Workers World. “What I do feel is the urge to resist, resist and never stop resisting or even think of stopping my resistance until victory falls to me.” (“Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson,” 1970) These words, written by revolutionary George Jackson 56 years ago in 1970 while he was being held as a political prisoner of the state, sum up what Black August is to the Black comrade, in the struggle for not only the liberation of the working class, but the liberation of Black people. Since the inception of both capitalism and the creation…
“This was an Obama judge,” President Donald Trump remarked in November 2018, referring to a decision temporarily blocking his restrictions on asylum applications. “And I’ll tell you what, it’s not going to happen like this anymore.” The ruling that irked Trump involved a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that says “any alien” may “apply for asylum” if he is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States…whether or not at a designated port of arrival.” Contrary to the plain language of that statute, Trump had issued a proclamation barring asylum applications by people who cross…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The phony controversy cooked up by rightwingers over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s participation in the upcoming anniversary mourning the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York is mired in bigotry and Islamophobia, and most of all in ignorance. Not wanting Mamdani to preside over 9/11 commemorations, carried out by radical heretics from a Sunni background, because he is a (Shia) Muslim, is like not wanting a prominent Christian of Swedish Protestant extraction to preside over the commemoration of massacres of Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his lieutenants, who were Spanish…
The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts approved a plan on Thursday to enshrine President Donald Trump’s name on the building, setting off a new battle in the war over what mark he should be able to leave on the institution. We have been down this road before. The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees “overstepped its statutory bounds by unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after President Trump,” U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in May. “In 1964, Congress deliberately rechristened the ‘National Cultural Center’ the ‘John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.’ The text,…
Kaweh Kerami, Durham University and Kambaiz Rafi, University of Central Asia The Conversation Five years on from seizing power in Kabul on August 15 2021 and consolidating its hold through the whole of Afghanistan, the Taliban claims to have ended the country’s decades-long war and achieved security. International troops have withdrawn and the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has collapsed. Daily security incidents, such as suicide attacks and roadside bombs that were mostly carried out by the Taliban in their two-decades-long insurgency, have since decreased. Conflict indicators such as those gathered by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) – a widely used metric for assessing whether a…