By Soumaya Ghannoushi* – Middle East Eye Leaks show how a foreign influence network governs the world’s most powerful nation through seduction, dependence and capture. The Epstein leaks have reopened a door many in Washington hoped would remain sealed. Not the door of gossip – though the media is content...

By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com  Why “Benevolent” Authoritarianism Is Gaining Global Appeal. For decades after World War II, liberal democracy seemed like the final chapter in political evolution. Western governments struck a balance—combining elections with social safety nets, dynamic markets with civil liberties, and global cooperation with internal stability. Newly...

By Jack Rasmus* – LA Progressive Is it a Trump tactic to justify further US withdrawal from involvement in the war, once the Europeans reject it, and to let the Europeans have ‘their war’ with Russia in Ukraine? This past week President Trump proposed a 28-point plan to Russia and...

By Patrick Bond* – ZNetwork The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém at the United Nations climate summit (‘COP30’) on November 22, just as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted (most of) the Group...

By Olivia Rosane* – Common Dreams “COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future,” one campaigner said. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or...