Opinions

Japan and the U.S. have adopted record-breaking defense budgets for 2024, with Japan accepting a 16-percent rise in military spending, and the U.S. authorizing $886 billion in annual military expenditure, which totals $28 billion higher than it did for the…

It is a well-known fact that the left is always divided, just as the right also tends to express itself in very belligerent alternatives to each other, although finally they unite and converge to participate in elections or overthrow governments.…

On social networks and in the media, an endless amount of bad news appears every day, in which we can see the most heartbreaking war misdeeds. This can lead us to the false idea that the world is lost. However,…

U.S. “ironclad” support for militarism undercuts attempts to curb right-wing terrorism. From white supremacist violence in the West Bank to gendered violence in Olongapo, we can’t defeat at home what we export abroad. In his first month as secretary of…

The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world. By Jeffrey D. Sachs On the surface, US foreign…

Xi Jinping: “It is unrealistic for one side to remodel the other… the planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed.”   Joe Biden: “We will not leave our future vulnerable to the whims of those who do…

The birth of a poor child in a shelter in the occupied land of Palestine, more than two thousand years ago, is being celebrated these days, amidst multiple contradictions. These are days of good wishes for peace, a peace that…

Again this morning Prague woke up in shock from the terrible event of violence that shook the country on the afternoon of 21 December. By Sandro Curatolo A 24-year-old man broke into the Faculty of Philosophy of Carolina University, which…

The upcoming national election is now a hot topic in Bangladesh. There is no end to people’s enthusiasm around the upcoming 12th National Assembly elections which is scheduled to be held on January 7, 2024. Out of the 44 parties…

I am one of those who maintain that the problems of democracy can be solved with more democracy. But it must be a good democracy, otherwise, we’re screwed. Individualism, arrogance, competition, ambition, selfishness, idleness, and over-ideologisation of the extremes are…