Long-standing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte is set to be NATO’s next secretary general. To win the role, he had to prove his alignment with Washington — and he did so by repeatedly misleading the public about Israel’s crimes.
Last year, Germany’s Foreign Office spelled out guidelines for a “feminist” foreign policy, focused on defending marginalized women. Today in Gaza, this same ministry is arming the deadliest war on women and girls this century.
Student protests in Serbia have challenged an authoritarian government and its sell-off of public assets to multinationals. Far from just a liberal or pro-European movement, it is challenging the ties between Serbian and international capital.
Sanctions used to be deployed as a slap on the wrist for foreign leaders, but over the past several decades they have become a central weapon of US foreign policy. Excessive use of sanctions may have begun to undermine US global hegemony.
If a designated enemy country attacked shipping just outside the coastal waters of a European Union member state, Western leaders would be outraged. When Israel did it off Malta this month, they said nothing.
From Debtor’s Prison to Debtor Nation.
When the media erases the crimes of US imperialism, they make future atrocities more likely.
With New Democracy just behind Syriza in the polls and an array of even more radical groups mobilized, the Greek right cannot be ignored.
Education is not a design problem with a technical solution. It’s a social and political project neoliberals want to innovate away.
What are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
The catastrophic civil war in Syria has only been worsened by international powers.
Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control.
Syriza failed to stop austerity in Greece. What can Popular Unity do differently?
Outgoing members of Syriza Youth explain why they won't be supporting their parent party in tomorrow's election.
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has deployed populist rhetoric to swell its base. Now the party is eyeing state power.
It's been five years since the start of the Tunisian uprising. What was won — and what remains — in the Arab Spring?
Sixteen notes on the presidential campaign.
