What does NATO have to do with New Zealand and vice versa? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is what it says on the tin, and New Zealand is about as far away from the North Atlantic as possible. NATO was set up as a united European and North...
On February 15, the Biden administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Somalia to construct up to five military bases for the Somali National Army in the name of bolstering the army’s capabilities in the ongoing fight against the militant group al-Shabaab.
According to statements by...
Besides the Israeli military’s mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza (the West Bank as well), there have been repressive measures by Israel to silence the dissent of pro-Palestinian voices. In a sane world, Israel would be sanctioned and deprived of U.S. military aid. Its right-wing leaders would be charged...
Far from being in the interests of advancing data privacy or the security of working-class people in the United States, banning TikTok would be a boon to American social media companies who routinely spy on their users and collaborate with intelligence and other government agencies. Instead, the bill is just part of the U.S. attack on China’s growing influence across the world...
In 2020 Campaign Biden Promised to Close Facility, But Has Actually Upgraded It
During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had become an embarrassing symbol of human rights violations.
The move made sense geo-strategically as the Biden...
On its opening weekend, the movie Bob Marley: One Love sold more tickets than any other movie in the United States, far outpacing other films in the theaters. While the film appeared to stay away from U.S.’s involvement in Marley’s death in order to get wider distribution, the question...
With the announcement by the U.S. Defense Department of the creation of five new bases in Somalia, the U.S. has made it clear it is stepping up its intervention in the country.
The previous government in Somalia had run the U.S. military out of Somalia, pretty much, but when the...
The answer is capitalism: Hernández opened Honduras to U.S. investors who value profits over people, including the American people
On March 8, an American jury in Federal District Court found former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) guilty of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and possessing and...
The airdrops in Gaza began as a Jordanian project to resupply its small field hospital, established in 2009 in Tel al-Hawa in northern Gaza in early November, 2023. Toward the end of November, Jordan established a second field hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, also supplied by airdrops....
For the so-called “greatest democracy on Earth,” elections in the United States are a mess of regulations and laws that differ by state...