The Battle Between ‘Greater Israel’ and “Neo-Ottomanism” in Syria

Mohamad Hasan Sweidan As Israel escalates its warnings about Turkiye’s hegemonic ambitions and military influence in Syria, a once-strategic partnership is unraveling into a deep rivalry that could reshape the region. In January, Israel’s Security and Force Building Budget Examination Committee – known as the Nagel Committee, after its chairman Yaakov Nagel – released a report…

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U.S. Imperialism Declares War on Cuban Doctors

W. T. Whitney Jr. Cuban doctors arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, June 8, 2020, after traveling to Italy to help with the COVID-19 emergency response. | Ismael Francisco / Pool via AP The U.S. government is at war with Cuban doctors working in other countries. Currently, 24,180 Cuban healthcare providers, mostly doctors,…

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Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

Helen Yaffe On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas medical-assistance programs. A US State Department statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.” This action,…

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Syria’s Genocide: Claiming Over 10,000 Lives, Is Not a Sectarian Conflict but a Deliberate Western Strategy to Dominate the Entire Region

Fiorella Isabel Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-US-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance. Syria’s massacres that can be defined by nothing less than genocide have exceeded in the slaughter of over 10,000 dead souls. The…

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Syria, Resistance, and the Fight Against Foreign Agendas

Myriam Charabaty Syria, the beating heart of the Arab world, was not forged by Former President Hafez al-Assad, nor was its identity shaped by colonial borders drawn by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot. Unlike lands carved to serve imperial interests, Syria has always been a stronghold of Resistance—besieged, yet unyielding. Throughout history, Syria’s diverse social…

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Who is Opposing Peace in Ukraine?

Dmitri Kovalevich As Trump reshapes U.S. policy on Ukraine, Zelensky faces mounting pressure, exposing the West’s contradictions in prolonging the war. March 2025 marks the beginning of a fourth year of the military conflict in Ukraine. Kiev, its sponsors in Europe and the United States, are proving unwilling to end the war being waged despite…

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Inside the HTS-Israeli Campaign to Eliminate Syria’s Military Engineers and Scientists

The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent Israel and HTS are systematically assassinating Syria’s military engineers and scientists, ensuring the country remains defenseless and strategically crippled against future aggression. On 27 November 2024, militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, launched a lighting assault on Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. Amid the chaos,…

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How Starmer Aided Trump’s Deadly Bombing of Yemen

Iona Craig Keir Starmer is determined to support Donald Trump. (Photo: Ron Sachs / Alamy) Britain provided aerial refuelling for US jets during Yemen airstrikes that killed 53 people, including women and children. Senior Houthi leader calls Britain’s involvement “immoral” and “an unjustified aggression against Yemen”. Prime minister Keir Starmer quietly involved Britain’s armed forces…

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The Alliance of the Sahel States Forges Ahead

Ann Garrison Eugene Puryear, fourth from left, with comrades at the Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel in Niamey, Niger. I spoke to Eugene Puryear, who traveled to the November 2024 Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel. Between 2021 and 2023 West Africa saw three popular military coups. Assimi Goïta became the…

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From East to West: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Pepe Escobar Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers. President Putin gave absolutely nothing away. The…

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Exposing Britain’s Covert War On Yemen

Kit Klarenberg On March 15th, Yemen was battered with airstrikes, described as a “wicked” act of Anglo-American aggression by spokespeople for AnsarAllah. The blitzkrieg, which overwhelmingly targeted residential areas, killed at least 31 civilians and injured over 100 more. In a characteristically bombastic outburst, US President Donald Trump declared the “decisive and powerful military action” was launched in response to…

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From Nkrumah to Neoliberalism

Gyekye Tanoh Interviewed  by Sa’eed Husaini Villagio Vista apartments, Accra Ghana. Image © Delali Adogla-Bessa  On the podcast, we explore: How did Ghana go from Nkrumah’s radical vision to neoliberal entrenchment? Gyekye Tanoh unpacks the forces behind its political stability, deepening inequality, and the fractures shaping its future. Recorded on the anniversary of the coup that…

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Right-Wing Populism is Further Impeding Reparatory Justice for Africans

Timo Al-Farooq 2025 is the AU’s official Year of Reparations, and Africans are pushing forward unperturbed by Western inaction and far-right populism’s growing influence on political discourse… Last month’s 38th African Union (AU) summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa saw the continent’s leaders make a renewed push to hold former European colonial powers accountable for “historical…

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War Fever Grips Europe

Uroš Lipušcek Ruslan Stefanchuk, chair of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainie’s parliament, addressing a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Feb. 11. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on right. (European Parliament / Flickr / CC BY 2.0) As if two world wars born in Europe were not enough, an increasingly divided Europe is seeking unity through…

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In the Great Sadness, We Have to Fight

The Mizrahi Perspective Something can always be done; take the vile use of ‘antisemitism’ as a bludgeon against humanity – against you – particularly in Western societies. The devastating news of a renewing genocide, immediately followed by the harrowing images we’ve become used to getting from Israel comes as a tsunami wave of shock, disbelief,…

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Israel Resumes Genocidal Attacks on Gaza

Maureen Clare Murphy The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are brought to the morgue at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, 18 March. Israel launched intensive attacks on Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 400 Palestinians and injuring more than 560, the health ministry in the territory said later in the day. The…

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Abahlali baseMjondolo Secures Victory Against Forced Evictions

Nicholas Mwangi Celebrations erupt after the Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled against the eviction application in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal. Photo: Abahlali baseMjondolo A landmark ruling has blocked the eviction of poor residents in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, marking a major victory for the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement. In a landmark ruling, the Pietermaritzburg High Court has dismissed an eviction application…

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The Yemeni Resistance: A Battle Important for the Whole World

Alexander Tuboltsev Yemen’s enduring resistance, led by Ansar Allah, remains a powerful symbol of defiance against Western imperialism and continues to inspire global movements for justice and anti-colonialism. On March 15, 2025, the United States began the next stage of its aggression against Yemen. Air and missile strikes by the US Air Force and Navy…

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The Godless Demagogues Destroying the World

Farah El-Sharif “And so We have placed in every society the most wicked to conspire in it. Yet they plot only against themselves, but they fail to perceive it.” (Qur’an 6:123) When I first looked up Curtis Yarvin—the Dugin of Trump’s America—he struck me as a clichè caricature of evil, like a nerdy villain from a low…

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Yemen’s Eastern Front: The New Battleground for Regional and Global Powers

Mawadda Iskandar As the war on Yemen escalates, the battle for influence in its eastern region has intensified, with Saudi Arabia and the UAE vying for strategic dominance, Israel expanding its covert military footprint, and the US intervening militarily on its behalf. The region is undergoing rapid developments that are reshaping the dynamics of the…

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A US Stranglehold on Lebanon: Scorched Earth Policy Aimed at Total Surrender

Radwan Mortada The US has escalated its military, economic, and political intervention in Lebanon, fully backing Israel’s war on Hezbollah while pushing for the country’s total disarmament – an aggressive campaign that risks dragging Lebanon into collapse, civil war, or forced normalization with Tel Aviv. The optics of US President Donald Trump’s newly appointed envoy…

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The Kingdom of Judea vs. the State of Israel

Alastair Crooke Many Israelis Still Protesting Netanyahu and the Gaza War Israel is deeply fractured. The schism has become bitter and heated as both sides see themselves to be in an existential war for the future of Israel. The language used has become so venomous (particularly in reserved channels in Hebrew) that calls for a coup…

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Nicaragua Ranks Highest in Gender Equity in the Americas and #6 Globally, According to the World Economic Forum, So Why Are They Under Sanctions?

Dissident Voice Managua, Nicaragua — If you asked 100 people in the U.S. or the U.K. to name the country leading gender equity in the Americas, it’s unlikely anyone would correctly answer Nicaragua. This lack of awareness reflects the success of a decades-long imperialist campaign to discredit and undermine Nicaragua’s remarkable achievements since the 1979…

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Cooperation & Conflict in the Arctic: Will BRICS Become an Arctic Institution?

Glenn Diesen BRICS States Invited to Safe Arctic 2025 Research Exercise Cooperation in the Arctic has traditionally been largely immune to geopolitics. Even during the great power conflicts of the Cold War, cooperation in the Arctic continued for mutually beneficial collaboration and trust-building. This era appears to have come to an end. Over the past…

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Wildly Unhinged America Expands Orgy of Genocides

BettBeat Media America’s “anti-war” candidate is bombing innocent civilians in Yemen to eradicate the last flicker of moral courage on this planet. In an act that epitomizes the moral and political bankruptcy of the West, President Donald Trump authorized airstrikes on Yemen this weekend—a country already suffering from nearly a decade of relentless war, starvation,…

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