When a Long, Dark Night Lit up with Music: The Story of the Leningrad Symphony
Even as hunger and death stalked the city of Leningrad, her citizens found in themselves the strength to defy unspeakable terror one night in August 1942.
The Greatest Replacement
What is now called Israel, and should rightfully be called Palestine, is the result of the greatest replacement of the last centuries.
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The Latest on Ukraine
In this recent interview, Jacques Baud speaks about what is now happening in Ukraine, and the enthusiastic warmongering that still persists in the West.
India, BRICS in Cold War Conditions
India is “balancing” between Washington and Moscow and the BRICS summit was a great occasion to monitor that trapeze act.
Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits
What is crucially being overlooked by most diagnoses of the current food crisis is how the problem does not lie in a lack of supply, or lack of market integration, but instead in how the food system is structured around power.
While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon”, War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
Cuba, Haiti, the Helms-Burton and the Crime of Insubordination
The Haitian Revolution was a breeding ground of revolutions. The viciousness of the colonial master could not erase its example. Inspired, Our America rose up to fight for its independence, again and again, as tireless as the courageous Haitians who defeated Napoleon’s best generals.
What the TRIPS Waiver Discussions at the WTO Tell Us About Indian Diplomacy
The recently-concluded discussions on the proposed TRIPS Agreement waiver at the WTO illustrates not only the limits of India’s negotiating strategies, but also a critical lack of consistent diplomatic leadership during a difficult period.
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NATO Announces Plan for Massive European Land Army
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented, “Hitler rallied a significant part, if not most, of the European nations under his banner for a war against the Soviet Union… now, the EU together with NATO are forming another—modern—coalition for a standoff and, ultimately, war with the Russian Federation.”
Majidi in Context
Sun Children, the latest film of renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi, is easily his finest since Children of Heaven (1997). It is also his most radical work in years, taking aim at various aspects of contemporary Iranian society.