January/February 2026

  • Gaza – What ceasefire?

    The ceasefire in Gaza, which took effect on 10 October, has by no means had the effect of ceasing the firing, the bombing, or any other of the war crimes perpetrated by Israel on the Middle East.  There has been some alleviation but certainly not a cessation.As at Christmas eve, Israel had... [Read more]

  • Hands off Venezuela, US, or more than your fingers will get burnt

    The US imperialist big bully is in a rage.  Its economy is in crisis. China is overtaking it on the industrial front. It is losing its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine despite spending tens of billions of dollars on the project. Its protégé Israel has brought it into worldwide disrepute as a... [Read more]

  • Julian Assange files criminal complaint against Nobel Foundation over “instrument of war” peace prize

    WikiLeaks Founder Alleges 2025 Award to María Corina Machado Constitutes Misappropriation, Facilitation of War Crimes Under Swedish Law, Seeks Freeze of 11 million SEK ($1.18 million USD) of Pending Transfers to Machado STOCKHOLM — December 17, 2025 JJulian Assange today filed a criminal... [Read more]

  • Beware Palantir

    Origins of PalantirOn 25 November 2025, The Guardian published an article, written by columnist Arwa Mahdawi, entitled ‘JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem?’. The article explained that United States Vice-President JD Vance, with aspirations to run for... [Read more]

  • Gen Z psy op movement fails to take down ultra popular Mexican government

    After successfully overthrowing Nepal’s pro-China government and destabilising governments across Asia, the Gen Z movement, led on social media from Washington, recently targeted the progressive Mexican government led by Claudia Sheinbaum. Since her election in 2024, the Mexican president has... [Read more]

  • The Ukraine war and the manufacture of consent

    The Ukraine war. Three simple words that roll off the tongue with little thought or consequence. Like the Iraq war. The Afghanistan war. The Libyan war. And all the others. Each becomes a label, a shorthand, stripped of history, politics, humanity and class content. We read the headlines when... [Read more]

  • Trump’s National Security Strategy, a blueprint for hegemony

    Author: Carlos MartinezThe Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), released in late November, has inspired widespread comment and a diverse array of interpretations.The most striking feature of the document is its explicit re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine, shifting the... [Read more]

  • Bolivian workers’ thirst for a decent life remains unquenched

    The portents were ominous following the election in November of a new right-wing president of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, and the humiliation of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), which had dominated the country’s political landscape for the past 20 years:“Even before the new president was sworn in, in... [Read more]

  • Á la carte capitalism

    France’s latest budget drama exposes once again the fantasy at the heart of modern bourgeois rule: the idea that capitalism can be managed à la carte, with its benefits retained and its consequences selectively discarded.Western imperial duplicity and contradiction was perfectly exemplified... [Read more]

  • Argentine politics – lost in the labyrinth

    To speak of Argentina today is to speak of the implementation of a neoliberal project that continues the economic line drawn by the military dictatorship (1976-1983), the government of Carlos Saul Menem (1989-1999) and the government of Mauricio Macri (1915-1919), with its consequences of... [Read more]

  • Understanding the heroism of Yemen – Part 3

    In March 2015, a ‘coalition of the willing’ was formed of a number of Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia. With the full blessing of US-UK-EU imperialism, this coalition launched ‘Operation Decisive Storm’ – a bloody campaign of terror against the people of Yemen in which a near-total blockade and... [Read more]

  • Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 6

    SpymaniaFor obvious reasons, Stalin was distrustful of spies – Soviet fears of foreign intelligence operations were perennial. The cultural Cold War was as fierce as the east-west political struggle. In 1949, the Soviet Union published a book entitled The truth about American diplomats, written... [Read more]