Palaver and Parable: Trump’s Babble
“All lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest” – “The Boxer,” Paul Simon Listening to Donald Trump is like staring at a record…
West’s Grip Slips With Saudi–Pakistan Security Deal
Riyadh’s defense pact with Islamabad redraws alliances, weakens Indian leverage, and hints at a new Muslim deterrence framework beyond western control.
How Women in Pakistan Are Fighting Enforced Disappearances and Killings
From a protest encampment in Islamabad, hundreds of women from Balochistan are demanding the return of their missing loved ones amid staunch government repression.
Avoiding the War on Terror Would Have Saved Over 10 Million Lives at Home and Abroad
By Bharat Dogra / CounterCurrents The peace movement in various parts of the world has emphasized in various contexts that if the huge amounts spent on various wars had been…
22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight
Biden's Rules on Drone Warfare Mask Continued Violent Islamophobia
Key Nations Don’t Want to Follow the US on Russia, China Policies
Leaked intelligence assessments detail how Brazil, Pakistan, India, and other countries don't want to follow Biden.
Pakistan Flooding ‘Calamity’ Prompts Call for Reparations
“I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale,” says UN Secretary General António Guterres of the recent floods in…
The Main Driver Behind Pakistan’s Floods Has a Familiar Name
In a new paper, scientists conclude climate change contributed to a third of Pakistan being under water as calls for debt relief and reparations grow.
The Understated Effects of Nuclear War on the World
By Diego Ramos / Original to ScheerPost With nuclear war becoming a growing concern in the world, scientists, in an authoritative study published by Nature Food, dug deeper into the…
The Angry Arab: Iran Losing Info War
The repercussions of the open sectarian war sparked by the U.S. invasion of Iraq can still be felt throughout the region, says As`ad AbuKhalil, partly because of Iran’s inaction.
The Names You’ll Never Know
Few in Washington have ever displayed the slightest sense of sorrow or remorse when it comes to the staggering death toll this country caused in so many distant lands in…
Demand for ‘Moratorium on Drone Warfare’ Follows Latest U.S. Killing of Afghan Civilians
Activists and civil rights groups are calling for the Biden administration to put a halt to covert warfare in and beyond Afghanistan.
Hedges: The Price of Conscience
Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Hedges: Bless the Traitors
Daniel Hale exposed the widespread and indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war. For his heroism, he faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these…
Modi’s ‘New’ India: Notch or Knot on China’s Belt (and Road Initiative)
File it in the rapidly-brimming "biggest-stories-of-2020-you-haven’t-heard-about" folder.