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Labor unrest, European elections, signs of a people's war in Myanmar, and a left perspective on vaxxing

A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue. America’s current vision of security has been ruinous both to the world and to the American people. A different future is possible.

They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” That cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it wasn’t pretty, was it? Not that anyone should be surprised. Even after 20 years of preparation, a burial never is

At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around.

The Peruvian transition, stirrings in Russia, budding dual power in India, and the South African Communist Party at 100

In the pandemic year 2020, 76 years after two American atomic bombs left the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ashes, the world’s nuclear powers increased spending on nuclear weapons by $1.4 billion more than they had put out the previous year.

“Hope…is not the same as joy that things are going well…or…headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good...”

The movement for women's lives finds a new cultural expression across Latin America, and reports from four continents

Violence and defiance in Palestine, the return of Austro-Marxism, and more reports and analysis from five continents

World military expenditure in 2020 is estimated to have been $1981 billion, the highest level since 1988 — and world military expenditure in 2020 was 2.6 per cent higher in real terms than in 2019 and 9.3 per cent higher than in 2011.