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New year, new realities in Russia, China, Cuba and Vietnam

The New START treaty is the last remaining deal limiting US and Russia nuclear weapons as Trump withdrew from two others.

The Arab revolution, South African nation-building, peasants unite in India, Amazon workers strike, and much more

Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space.

One superpower or more? A left analysis of the world order, and news and reports from five continents

From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysmic Wars

Will fear, exaggerated threats, and pork-barrel politics be enough to keep the Pentagon and its contractors fat and happy, even as the urgent priorities of so many of the rest of us are starved of much-needed funding?

What Russian Left Parties Say About Belarus, and reports from Brazil, Sudan, London, Kenya, India, France and Morocco

The more U.S. movements are infused with internationalism, the more we contribute to getting Washington’s bloody hands out of other countries. That bolsters the capacity of people in other lands to improve their lives and fight our common enemy.

Why is Trump unraveling treaties on nuclear arms? It's not just greed -- some people want to use them. The test ban did - and does - slow the development of nuclear weapons and limits their proliferation to other countries.