Mark Carney speaks at Davos -- video screenshot By Raïs Neza Boneza Western Power and the Persistence of Colonial Structures There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because maintaining the performance becomes too expensive. Recently in Davos , the Canadian Prime minister Mark Carney did something unusual. He admitted—almost casually—that the so-called  rules-based international order  has never quite been wha

Cartoon via Countercurrents By Gabriel Haythornthwaite In the early morning hours of January 3rd 2026, Trump America launched a sneak attack on Venezuela after months of annihilationist threats, murderous bombings, full-on blockade and high seas piracy. Headlined by an aerial bombardment of Caracas, the capital, an elite American death squad unit succeeded in taking Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro--and his wife, Cilia Flores--hostage and spirited them swiftly to New York

“We’re in a situation of injustice,” one protester said. “Workers can no longer feed themselves, students no longer have future...

The first part of a two part analysis. Trump and Carney at the G7 meeting in Canada, June 16, 2025 -- public domain image By Gabriel...

Macron, Starmer and Zelenskyy, March 2, 2025 -- Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The...

French troops in Mali - Cover photo by France 3 Grand Est, CC-BY-3.0, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. By Vijay Prashad A decade ago, on a...

What is that lesson that corporate-friendly so-called "centrists" refuse to learn? That you cannot save democracy while preserving the...

"Israel is committing crimes against humanity and waging regional war (while dragging international states to it) all in order to...

Image via X By Global News Service The 89th edition of the Fête de l’Humanité brought together over 450,000 participants for three days...

The fight against Trump's authoritarianism, while certainly necessary, is being used as cover to shore up support for a status quo that...

"Expressing one's vote will be useless as long as Macron is in power," said one demonstrator. Protestors march in France, September 7 --...

Michel Barnier -- image via X Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far left La France Insoumise (LFI) party and the French Communist Party...

"The people must get rid of Macron for the good of democracy," said the leader of France's Green Party. Nouveau Front Populaire rally...

Public domain image By Richard D. Wolff In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French...

"The most effective action the U.S. could take to halt Israel's genocidal war would be cutting off weapons." Long line of people fleeing...

NATO’s 75th anniversary is an opportune time to take stock of NATO’s outdated world view and violations of international law. Sound...

French PM Gabriel Attal -- image via video screenshot By Global News Service The results of the general election in France are in: the...

Dimitris Koutsoumbas speaks at an election rally in Athens, June 5 -- image via the KKE on X In the recent European elections the...

An excellent and thorough analysis of the results of the recent European election from the Brazilian Communist Party. Elections for the...

Taking a page from the dark days of the 1930s and the rise of fascism and nazism, the major left wing parties in France are forming what...