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The UK’s Growing Involvement in the Iran War
Wars can distract, and for leaders in political purgatory, they can be particularly useful. It remains to be seen whether the UK’s increasing involvement in the illegal war being waged on Iran by Israel and the United States will serve that purpose. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the great saviour of the British Labour Party […]
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China Rejects a Joint US-China Hegemony
In response to a question by a NBC reporter, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi rejected US president Donald Trump’s format of a China-United States hegemony. Instead, Wang affirmed China’s anti-hegemony and pro-multipolarity positions. Said Wang, [W]e should not forget there are more than 190 countries on our planet. World history has always been written by […]
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Britain’s Role in Attacks on Cyprus, Venezuela, and Iran
Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution […]
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The Age of Human Arrogance, Part III
For centuries, humanity imagined itself as the apex of creation — the God chosen species, the master builder, the rightful ruler of the Earth. But no empire has ever been as destructive as the one we have built in our own name. We have poisoned rivers, erased forests, destabilized climates, and driven ancient species to […]
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Imperial Oil Grab: The Abduction of Venezuela’s President as a Prelude to the Attack on Iran
Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that would be only for narrow economic motives. Dominion over energy flows – especially from countries […]
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“Free Market” Charter Schools Wreak Havoc in Michigan
While the essence of the “free market” chaos, anarchy, and violence underpinning the charter school sector is the same across the U.S., the form it takes varies from state to state for different reasons. In Michigan, for example, about 80% of charter schools are openly for-profit charter schools, which is a disproportionately high number of […]
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France: Forward Deterrence and Going Backwards
To expand a stockpile of both the useless and the mindlessly murderous in a military sense would seem to be a wasteful exercise best contemplated in the psychiatric ward. But such a ward is increasingly occupied by the world’s leaders, and war is on their lost minds. As Israel and the United States continue their […]
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International Law Needs International Enforcement
Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after thousands of years of violent international conflict, efforts to establish global norms for nations in connection […]
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