The bipartisan establishment is having a freak-out over the prospect of a modest cut to the defense budget. It’s not clear it will actually happen — but even if it did, the gargantuan US military budget would still be wasteful and counterproductive.
Syriza needs mobilized support to defeat its creditors — and the far right.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is about expanding US hegemony in East Asia.
Sudan’s ongoing but embattled revolution is perhaps the best organized and politically advanced in the region. That’s why the US and Saudi Arabia are determined to crush it.
The ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan obscures the needs of workers in both countries.
US officials just admitted they don’t know where their arms shipments to Ukraine will actually end up, and that they could fall into dangerous hands.
Historian Robert Conquest was a fierce critic of Stalinist brutality, but Cold War anticommunism hampered his scholarship.
The Republican presidential debate last night was an unhinged parade of War on Terror–style militarism and paranoid saber-rattling. With or without Donald Trump, the GOP has absolutely lost it.
Leon Trotsky's brief 1917 stay in New York City left a mark on the American socialist movement.
With Trump in office, Syrians face a desperate and uncertain future.
Renamed after Italian Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti, the Russian city of Tolyatti was chosen as home for a FIAT-backed auto plant in 1966, soon making it the USSR’s largest planned industrial center. Yet its urban landscape shows signs of planners’ concern to create livable spaces focused on community need, not just industrial production.
The good news is the New York Times’s Nick Kristof won’t be in the paper of record anymore. The bad news is he’s already plotting ways to broadcast his treacly liberalism to the good people of Oregon in a run for governor.
As long as liberals cheerlead Trump's military action in Syria, right-wing hawks barely have to lift a finger.
There are no “humanitarian” wars. There are only wars.
The spontaneous protests in Serbia show how little mainstream politics has to offer voters.
According to establishment pundits and politicians, countries have “national interests” they carry out in the international arena. But “national interests” is just another phrase for ruling-class interests. The old socialist argument is true: workers of all countries have more in common with each other than their respective countries’ ruling elites.
Four months into his presidency, is Donald Trump any closer to consolidating a right-wing nationalist regime?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fed calls for the West to radically step up its own military spending. An arms race only increases the risk of a conflict between China and the US — a global disaster that we must do everything in our power to prevent.
If Israel does not de-escalate its war on Gaza, the conflict risks spilling into neighboring Middle Eastern nations. The humanitarian consequences would be horrific.
There is no ambiguity about President Joe Biden’s foreign policy record: it was bloody, and it was disastrous.