2,408 persons have called upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace. Join the statement now:
The people of Asia know the cost of imperialism and remember the many historic struggles and revolutions across Asia – from the Arab Revolt (1917–1918), to the Chinese Revolution (1949), to Vietnam’s Resistance War Against the US (1955–1975). The same fight against imperialism is being waged today on many fronts, from Gaza to Colombo to Okinawa. Hands off Asia!
NATO is an organisation that has lost much of its strategic coherence while remaining fully capable of generating instability, militarisation and confrontation.
The UN Commission concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children and that these actions amount to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, alongside war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
Africa’s last absolute monarchy remains a kingdom marked by contradiction: immense royal authority alongside widespread suffering; cultural pride alongside political exclusion; silence enforced by fear, yet resistance sustained by generations unwilling to surrender the dream of freedom.
The Ankara NATO summit will not only discuss defence and deterrence; it will reveal how deeply the future of capitalism, technology and organised violence has become intertwined. It will be yet another chapter in the political economy of permanent mobilization for warfare.
The United States and Israel possessed vastly superior military capabilities, yet they could not secure the political outcome they desired. The deepest political meaning of the MoU is: military power can destroy, but it cannot always rule.
By Gisela Cernadas, David Vine and John Bellamy Foster
A new report estimates that total US military spending in 2025 was between $1.5 trillion and $1.8 trillion - and could be as high as $2.3 trillion when interest payments are included.
12,000 people demonstrated in Brussels for Welfare not Warfare, against militarization and for social progress – at a moment when European governments have committed €800 billion to rearmament.
The strike on the schoolhouse in Minab killed 156 people, notably 120 schoolchildren.
It stands as a warning of a future in which technological power advances faster than public accountability.
Stop ReArm Europe - Campaigners from across Europe are gathering in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services.
The disastrous decision to expand NATO eastwards, and to try to include Ukraine in it, always created the strategic risk of a general war in Europe. NATO's current actions are turning that strategic threat into a short-term one.