International

LONDON [Xinhua]: British outgoing prime minister and prime minister candidates on 14 July condemned remarks made by the U.S. President Donald Trump about a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen, calling them unacceptable. The spokesperson of the outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May said on 14 July that Trump’s remarks on several minority Democratic lawmakers […]

Peter Symonds WHEN Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was murdered in broad daylight at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on 13 February 2017, the World Socialist Web Site cautioned that nothing could be ruled out. More than two years on, a book on the North Korean leader by Washington Post […]

Why a war against Iran will be the “nail in a coffin” Timothy Alexander Guzman President Donald Trump was recently interviewed on Fox Business and was asked about Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani’s statement calling the White House “Mentally Retarded” and if the U.S. was going to have a war against Iran. Trump said “Well, I […]

Andre Damon WORLD leaders gathered in Osaka, Japan on 28-29 June for the G20 summit amid the relentless promotion of trade war, protectionism and militarism. The climate at the G20, formed to coordinate an international and multilateral response to a series of global financial crises in the late 1990s, could be described with the phrase […]

Ben McGrath CHINESE President Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong-un pledged at a two-day summit on 20 June to deepen cooperation and try to resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula, according to their respective state media. Xi and other high-level Chinese officials arrived in Pyongyang for a state visit. It was a Chinese […]

Rod Such JOURNALIST Max Blumenthal opens his latest book, ‘The Management of Savagery’, with this telling epigraph: “Al-Qaida is on our side in Syria,” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was advised in a February 2012 email from her deputy chief of staff. The statement to Clinton reveals the kinship between US military interventionist policy […]

Niles Niemuth US President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on 17 June night that Immigration and Customs and Enforcement is preparing to launch mass raids soon to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their […]

Deepal Jayasekera UNDER conditions of mounting working class opposition to India’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government and to the ruinous outcome of three decades of “pro-market” reform, India’s principal Stalinist parties—the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM and the smaller, older Communist Party of India (CPI)—have suffered an unprecedented electoral debacle. Together, […]

Andre Damon THE Pentagon announced on 10 June the single largest arms purchase in its history, agreeing to buy nearly 500 F-35 fighter aircraft at a total cost of $34 billion. This purchase is only a down payment on the Pentagon’s acquisition of the notoriously wasteful and failure-prone aircraft, whose design is based on two […]

Abdul Rashid Agwan JAMIA Millia Islamia is one of the few educational institutions which came into being in response to the nationalist call of freedom struggle to boycott educational institutions supported or run by the British colonial rule. It became a dream project of such stalwart national leaders as Mehmud-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Mahatma Gandhi, […]