International

Nick Beams THE G7 meeting held in France over the weekend marks another stage in the breakdown of the post-war capitalist order with the major imperialist powers becoming embroiled in a series of conflicts of the kind that led to the outbreak of World War II eighty years ago. The G7 was set up in […]

Bill Van AukenTHIRTEEN million people in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have spent the last 14 days under a regime of extraordinary repression and collective punishment at the hands of India’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. These actions have few—and historically infamous—precedents. A population that is greater than those of entire European countries […]

K. Ratnayake INDIA’s disputed Kashmir region remained on 15 August under an unprecedented security lockdown that is being enforced by tens of thousands of Indian soldiers and paramilitaries, as well as local police. Kashmir’s 13 million people are subject to sweeping restrictions on their movements and all Internet and cell and land phone use has […]

Andrew Korybko CHINA and Russia—two of the most important Great Powers that are jointly working to accelerate the emergence of the Multipolar World Order—are on totally opposite sides when it comes to Kashmir, with their differing stances being explained by the existential stakes that they each see in supporting their South Asian partner of choice. […]

Keith Jones THE Muslim-majority state Kashmir in India has had autonomous rule for the last seven decades, thanks to a provision in India’s constitution known as Article 370. India’s home affairs minister told parliament that the country’s President had revoked Kashmir’s constitutionally guaranteed special status. The BJP government also said it supports a measure to […]

Australian involvement in war drive against China Oscar Grenfell US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his recent visit to Sydney for annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) to issue bellicose denunciations of China and to demand greater Australian involvement in Washington’s aggressive confrontations with Beijing and also Iran. Pompeo and US Defence Secretary Mark Esper […]

Trump’s trade war against China hits Asian economies Nick Beams DATA released by the island state of Singapore—one of the key trading hubs in Asia—reveal the widening impact of the US trade war on China. Following the recent report of a 3.4 percent decline in Singapore’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate for the […]

Stephen Lendman FOR over half a century, Occupied Palestine has been and remains a deadly undeclared free fire war zone. Time and again, Israeli forces gun down Palestinians engaged in peaceful demonstrations threatening no one.Gazans under more than 12 years of politically motivated/ suffocating blockade endured and continue enduring the worst of it. Since the […]

The most perilous time in the history of the world Stephen Lendman I HAVE stressed time and again that today is the most perilous time in world history. It’s because of US rage to control planet earth, its resources, and populations by whatever it takes to achieve its objectives — preemptive wars against nonbelligerent states […]

Indian security forces’ use of torture against Kashmiris Wasantha Rupasinghe A RECENTLY published report gives a blood-curdling account of brutal human rights violations against Kashmiri people by Indian security forces in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India’s only Muslim-majority state. The tragedy that is contemporary Kashmir is rooted in the reactionary 1947 […]