• US military tests new weapon to prepare for 'space-enabled' attacks on the US

    The US Space Force's Remote Modular Terminal (RMT) jams enemy satellites. It works by flooding the airwaves with competing signals to drown them out. The RMT is the US's newest tool in the space race against Russia and China. READ MORE:

  • How I’m Preparing My Children for World War III

    No one wants to see their child go off to war. But as a former intelligence officer and mother of two young sons, I’ve given a lot of thought to, well, the topic of war. I’ve considered the possibility that, if a global conflict broke out, my sons may find themselves suddenly called upon to

  • Russia would lose a war with NATO, Poland warns

    “It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said.

  • Korean War hero lies in honor at US Capitol

    An honor seldom given to private citizens, Col. Ralph Puckett Jr., the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the Korean War, lied in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.

  • Feeding War, Killing Peace: Why the US Vetoed ‘Palestine’?

    The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a Palestinian state, the United States is not yet ready for this commitment. These are some of the reasons that the US deputy envoy to the More

  • US preparing to announce $6B in weapons contracts for Ukraine

    The package could be finalized and announced as soon as Friday, and will include Patriot systems.

  • Israel can still drag the US into war with Iran

    The Biden administration is breathing a sigh of relief that it has so far avoided a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. But that self-congratulation should be tempered with realization that it was a close call and that the incentives for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish governing coalition to provoke one are still present. The Biden administration’s rhetorical outrage at Iran’s forewarned and well-choreographed symbolic missile and drone attacks on Israeli...

  • The US war aid might be too little, too late for Ukraine

    At the last possible moment, after months of prevarication and with Russian troops on the brink of a major breakthrough…What to read next: Ukraine’s plight is getting more desperate by the day | Russia is failing to undermine German morale on Ukraine | Why do neoliberals get let off the Iraq War hook? | Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart

  • Over 200 protesters detained at four US Universities over Gaza war

    US police forces detained over 200 individuals in raids on gatherings of pro-Palestinian students at four universities across the country. These individuals were arrested at Washington University in St. Louis, Arizona State University, Indiana University Bloomington, and Northeastern University. The New York Times reported that university authorities across the US are trying to prevent protests […]

  • An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war

    In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slaveryWhile the civil war is associated with the end of slavery in the US, the so-called peculiar institution survived throughout much of the Confederacy right to the end of the conflict. That’s the thought-provoking narrative of a comprehensive new book by Robert KD Colby, a history professor at the University of Mississippi.“Many Confederates saw slavery as indelibly bound up with...

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    A look at the protests about the war in Gaza that have emerged on US college campuses

    Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.

  • Student protests against Gaza war spread across US Universities

    International media have reported that student protests at universities across America against what is perceived as the ongoing Gaza conflict have escalated, with police in several instances storming the gathering places of students on university campuses to quell these protests. Reuters reported in a dispatch published on Wednesday, April 24th, that student protests in the […]