Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner

Since the return of Donald Trump to the White House, he and his Republican allies have worked to destroy the U.S. government’s overseas humanitarian aid programs. This action flies in the face of the U.S. government’s lengthy record of humanitarian assistance to people of other nations whose lives had been blighted by war, poverty, and illness.

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Jorge Castañeda |jorge castaneda |Carlos Ominami

MEXICO CITY – We are living through turbulent times. The postwar international order that the United States largely designed and built is in crisis, with multilateralism – its guiding principle – under serious strain. This decline was long in the making. During the 1970s oil crises, developing countries, responding to the perceived weaknesses of the global system, advanced the New International Economic Order to promote their interests.

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy

Iran-Israel conflict can no longer be viewed as just bilateral but would not have probably reached this stage without Tel Aviv being backed by Washington. Certainly, there is nothing new about this. At the same time, it cannot be ignored that conflict began when US-Iran talks regarding latter’s nuclear program had been initiated. These have been suspended for now.

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman

How can it be? How can an obvious genocide, perpetrated by a small country, be allowed to occur? How can a small and newly developed nation, with a slight population and few resources, artificially stitched together with foreign people from unrelated parts of the world, pulverize a large and millennium developed nation with a huge population, abundant resources, and naturally situated with native people in one unique area?

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman

The uncalled for attack on Iran by the most insane group of people who inhabit this planet was expected; what do the insane do, they do the insane. Not expected is that recognized people do not recognize the insanity of the action. Put it simple — Iranians are not eager to have a nuclear bomb. Why would they when knowing an attempt to nuke anyone will be retaliated by a devastation that will erase their ancestral Persian land and its inhabitants from the Earth.