Donald Trump has selected Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and a right-wing evangelical preacher with a messianic view about Israel, as U.S. ambassador to Israel. Huckabee has voiced strong support for Israel’s war on Gaza even though it has engaged in egregious war crimes, and acts...

A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, executive director of the Stern Group, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in the United States, “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to I.F. Stone. Einstein’s response was unequivocal: “When a...

He is part of a group of extreme right-wing hawks devoid of ethics set to run Trump’s foreign policy team President-elect Donald Trump named Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for Secretary of State, an abhorrent choice that shows Trump’s claim to be a peace candidate to be...

They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago In March 2018, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published a political pamphlet entitled “The CIA Democrats.” In it, he wrote that “an extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National...

“On the Anglo-Saxon side, and particularly for the US, the solution seemed straight forward: their champion Laurent-Desire Kabila, supported by both Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni, respectively presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, would overthrow the marshal , seize power, and never mind if Kivu, the whole east of the...

In an era of right-wing ascendancy and endless wars, Dennis J. Kucinich has stood out as one of the few respectable figures in American politics. During his 16 years in Congress between 1997 and 2013, Kucinich (D-OH) was consistently anti-war—opposing even wars like Kosovo, Serbia, Syria and Libya orchestrated by...

The Russians are Coming On a rare, warm summer day without rain and roaring wind, my love (Jette) and I took a walk over a green field alongside a promontory of Køge Bay in southeast Denmark. Another nature lover came by as we heard a lark signaling high above its...

Armenia is another battleground of the new cold war In July 2022, CIA Director William Burns made a surprise visit to Yerevan in Armenia. He was there officially to support his Agency’s financing of “non-profit organizations” whose stated purpose is to “spread democratic values.” The United States Agency for International Development...

Arnaud DEVELAY caught up with elected Member of the Russian State Duma and Ranking Member of the Duma’s Commission for International Affairs, Maria BUTINA. Q: Let us start with what has been a crackdown on free speech around the world with the raid on Scott Ritter’s house, the arrest...

As a progressive socialist country whose economic rise is helping to put an end to 500 years of Western imperialism, or as a capitalist-imperial rival to the U.S.? The Biden administration has disappointed many of its supporters by adopting policies and rhetoric with regards to the People’s Republic of China...