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Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America...
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024...
The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the...
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and...
After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems likely to give way to a new...
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in...
The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq...
The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying...
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional...
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver...
On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s...
One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General...
One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General...
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel—an...
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action?...