How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for intercepting ships in the Red Sea to counter Israel’s genocide in Gaza? By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies, Common Dreams The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela , while also destroying dozens of small

Trump addressing top US military figures in September -- public domain image By Biljana Vankovska Like every U.S. administration since the Cold War, the Trump administration has released a document titled the National Security Strategy (NSS). I use the word “titled” deliberately, for if this text were not stamped with the official seal of the United States, it would hardly merit the designation of “strategy.” It is a document that contains little that is strategic and even

The 41st Central Convention of the Communist Party of Canada convened in Montreal from December 5-7, 2025, amidst a consequential and dangerous period for the working class in Canada and worldwide. The Convention met in a spirit of political unity, determined to analyze and respond to an accelerating imperialist drive towards world war, a rightward shift by the federal government, and a rapidly intensifying corporate assault. Delegates assessed a situation where the Carney g

What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially? Netanyahu and Trump in September, 2025 -- public domain image By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the US administration is serious about pushing forward the secon

Image of the protest via X Various Sources The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader known for her far right positions and explicit support for US military intervention in Venezuela. This decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee triggered considerable backlash both domestically in Norway and internationally due to Machado’s association with calls for conflict escalation, support for Israel and its genocide in Gaza and

The West serves as the simultaneous judge and executioner, the honest researcher and the weapons manufacturer, the violator and the self-appointed defender of human rights. Lloyd Austin meets with Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 18, 2023 -- public domain image By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House Armed Services Commit

The South African Communist Party on Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, South China provocations by the US imperialist regime, Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Western Sahara and Swaziland. The South African Communist Party (SACP) convened its Augmented Central Committee (ACC) at Birchwood Hotel Boksburg from 28 – 30 November 2025. The ACC assessed the implementation of the SACP annual programme of action and resolutions of the 15th National Congress and the 5th Special National Congress. Ac

Statements for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People from the New Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Communist Party of Swaziland and the World Federation of Trade Unions. Andrew Ratto, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Statements for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People NCP of the Netherlands, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People : On 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with the Pales

Workers Party of Ireland Message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People In 1977, the General Assembly of the United Nations called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This year’s observance takes place in the context of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. The Workers Party of Ireland, since the beginning, has taken to the streets to demonstrate against the genocidal ac

In practice, this ceasefire amounts to a one-sided truce, where Israel can carry out a relentless, low-grade war on Gaza, while Palestinians are systematically denied the right to respond or defend themselves. A "Yellow Line" block in Gaza -- image via Drop Site News video screenshot on X By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruc

Image via the US ambassador to Sri Lanka on X On the NPP Government’s Military MOU with the United States The Communist Party of Sri Lanka strongly condemns the NPP government for entering into a new military Memorandum of Understanding with the United States National Guard under the so-called State Partnership Program (SPP). This agreement between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the Montana National Guard represents another step in the militarisation of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ an

The coming months and years mark the most critical fight for truth in the conflict’s history. Catastrophic devastation in Gaza -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv reestablish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide , but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The perfect little story, built on myths and outr

The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. People amid the catastrophic devastation in Gaza as winter approaches -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel’s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza . Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinian

The Politburo of the South African Communist Party (SACP) on the international situation, including the United States’ imperialist military and other forms of aggression against Venezuela, the war crimes in Sudan, the Israeli regime’s genocide on the Palestinian people, the United States’ illegal blockade against Cuba, the Western Saharan people’s struggle against Moroccan colonialism, and the struggle for democracy in Swaziland. This was part of a broader statement looking a

Image via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that the Greek state and bourgeois justice system are attempting to send a clear message: that the struggle against genocide in Gaza constitutes a “criminal offence”, marking a new stage in the ongoing effort to criminalize solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people. Markos Bekris, president of the Piraeus Labour Centre, cadre of the KKE and president of the Container Handling Workers’ Union at the COSCO docks

Netanyahu surrounded by US officials at the White House, September 29, 2025 By Vijay Prashad No dia 26 de outubro, Caroline Willemen, do Médicos Sem Fronteiras, afirmou que Israel continua usando a necessidade de ajuda humanitária em Gaza como “meio de exercer pressão”. “A situação humanitária em Gaza não melhorou de forma significativa”, disse Caroline à imprensa, “já que a escassez de água e abrigo persiste e centenas de milhares de pessoas continuam vivendo em tendas à me

“The occupation targets whoever it wants, stopping and resuming the genocide every few days as if playing with our lives,” said one young woman from Gaza. An IDF helicopter in Gaza, October 13, 2025 -- / IDF Spokesperson's Unit By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams More than 800 Palestinians have been killed or wounded since the October 10 truce between Israel and Hamas , leaving many residents of the still-embattled, still-starved strip to question whether there is actually any

A mural painted on the rubble of a destroyed building in Al Thawra Street in Rimal, Gaza. The mural was created by Mostafa Mehna with 25 children from Gaza. The Arabic text reads "There is hope" -- photo, February 2025 via Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations  —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once bel

UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese is in the country at the invitation of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Francesca Albanese at the Groot Kerk event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. All photos by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi, Elitsha, South Africa The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has urged South Africans to use their consumer power to intensify their actions in support of the broader campaign for boycotting

Trump and Netanyahu with a number of US officials at the White House, September 29, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad On 26 October, Caroline Willemen of Médecins Sans Frontières stated that Israel continues to use the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza as “means of pressure”. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza has not improved significantly”, she told the press, “as water and shelter shortages persist and hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in tents