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Image by María Alejandra Mora, Wikipedia. By Medea Benjamin – Nicolas J. S. Davies For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair. Now that the same playbook is being dusted off for Venezuela, the parallels with Iraq and other U.S. interventions are an ominous warning of what could follow. As a U.S. armada gathers off Venezuela, a U.S. special operations aviation unit aboard one of the…

Israeli tanks and military vehicles are seen deployed with some military vehicles, helicopters, and drones patrolling along the border region following the implementation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli forces inside the yellow line in Sderot, Israel on October 14, 2025. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] by Ramona Wadi  walzerscent Rebuilding Gaza in accordance with the US plan is facing considerable objections across diplomatic and humanitarian circles. In two years, Israeli media reported, one million Palestinians could be moved to a newly built residential area that will be controlled by the Israeli military,…

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reacts as visits a mosque in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 7 November, 2025 (Reuters) by Soumaya Ghannoushi The genocide exposed not only Israel’s violence, but also the system that had guarded it. Mamdani’s win is the first electoral articulation of that awakening Something shifted in New York. In a city where financial power and media consensus ordinarily define the limits of political possibility, a young Muslim democratic socialist defeated a former governor backed by US President Donald Trump and the donor networks accustomed to pre-deciding electoral outcomes. The familiar accusations –“radical”, “communist”, “Muslim antisemite” – were deployed across mainstream…

By Aayesha J Soni Here is the truth we prefer to bury with powerful men: some lives end before their consequences do. With the death of former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney at 84, the architect of the post-9/11 “war on terror” leaves a world still living inside the blast radius of his decisions. Tributes will describe his resolve and “clarity.” History should remember the human beings who paid for it- with their bodies, their futures, and their countries. Cheney did not simply influence policy; he midwifed invasions, torture regimes, and a theory of limitless executive power. And to the very…

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a New York Is Not for Sale rally at Forest Hills Stadium in the Queens borough of New York City on October 26, 2025 [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters] By Ziyad Motala Professor of law at Howard University School of Law. By electing Zohran Mamdani, New York voters endorsed public duty over donor loyalty and truth over silence on Gaza. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election is the moral repudiation of an establishment that mistook political access for virtue and money for merit. Against a torrent of billionaire donations, media scepticism, Islamophobia and…

PRESS RELEASE (Official Statement) The Kashmir Global Movement (KGM), in partnership with African human rights advocates, convened the Nelson Mandela Kashmir–Africa–Peace Seminar in Johannesburg on Friday, 24 October 2025. The event united civil society leaders, scholars, diplomats and peace activists from across Africa and the global South in solidarity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Delegates adopted a Resolution on Kashmir, reaffirming the universal principles of freedom, dignity, and justice as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the South African Bill of Rights, and the International Covenant on…

Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters Sudan, Empire, and the Future War Machine by ali ridha khan Sudan is not a crisis — it is a revelation. It is the mirror no one wants to look into, showing us what the world becomes when power sheds its old costumes and violence finds new investors. From Khartoum’s charred skyline to the mass graves of El Fasher, Sudan is where empire updates its software and humanity glitches. To call this merely a “civil war” is to participate in misrecognition. Sudan is the frontline of a new imperial order: not built on flags, missions, or manifest…

Al Basma IVF Centre, Gaza’s largest fertility clinic which was struck by an Israeli shell. Composite: Guardian Design by Ben Doherty Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’ Of the thousands of bombs that have fallen – and fall still – on Gaza, there is one to which Navi Pillay returns: a lone shell, fired by the Israel Defense Forces at the Al-Basma fertility clinic in December 2023. A single strike that wiped out 4,000 embryos in a moment. The strike was “intended to prevent births” among Palestinians…

By Iqbal Jassat  Shocking images of brutal killings and massacres of thousands of civilians in El Fasher, western Sudan, during the end of October, appears to have awoken the world to a largely under-reported genocide ongoing for more than two years. The horrific reality of an escalation in the gruesome war became evident as satellite images revealed the scale of the atrocities. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. Though Sudan has been engulfed in one of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts since April 2023, much of the world including African countries had opted to remain unmoved. This allowed the painful suffering…

By Salim Mohamed Badat The Dawn of the Fire. It began at dawn, 15 April 2023, when the sky over Khartoum split open with the scream of gunfire. The Rapid Support Forces did not merely attack military positions; they ambushed a nation. Under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the Sudanese Armed Forces reeled as Hemedti’s men,once Janjaweed on horseback, now a uniformed death machine, swarmed the capital. This was not a war born overnight. The power-sharing deal after the fall of Omar al-Bashir had been a brittle façade, cracking under the weight of greed, suspicion, and the question that haunted every negotiation…