The Doomsday Clock is Closer to Midnight

Russia's Nuclear Signaling and Implications for European Security by Aylin Matlé and András Rácz, a memo to the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) [excerpts] https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/russias-nuclear-signaling-2026-and-implications-european-security      C-L Note: We are reprinting parts of this document to alert listeners to the serious possibility of a "tactical" nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO arising from increasing escalations and NATO countries' involvement in conventional attacks on Russia in the context of the war in [...]

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Welcome to the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century!

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) A "year in review" summary, as has been traditional in the January issue of Change Links annually, would recapitulate the horrors of the first year of Trump II, with which we are all too achingly familiar. I am instead going to take a longer view, and look back over the past quarter-century to see what got us into this deepening political, moral, economic and [...]

Italian Labor Solidarity with Palestine

https://sordsa.org/blog/jose-nivoi-flotilla-interview/ Interview by Fran of DSA NPC [Excerpts] Q: Tell us who you are and how you ended up on the Flotilla? A: I’m José Nivoi, I’m part of USB, which is the Grassroots Trade Union [Unione Sindacale di Base], and of CALP. I’m the spokesperson for CALP in Genoa, which is the Autonomous Dockworkers Collective [Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali]. For several years, we’ve been carrying out blockades against arms trafficking directed [...]

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How UN Action Can End the Genocide in Gaza

by Nicolas J. S. Davies In July 2025, the UN General Assembly organized a “High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution.” The conference was chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, and its goal was “not only to reaffirm international consensus on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine but to catalyze concrete, timebound and coordinated international action toward the [...]

The Alternative – A new Left Party in the United Kingdom

by Zarah Sultana [Excerpts] https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-alternative   Oliver Eagleton: Let’s start with your political trajectory and relationship with the Labour Party. How has it evolved? What brought you to the decision to leave? Will others on the ‘Labour left’ follow you?   Zarah Sultana: I was formed politically by the War on Terror and the aftermath of the financial crisis. The first time I engaged with parliamentary politics was when the coalition government [...]

Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that this is an historic moment when decisive action is needed, but what kind of action depends on their interpretation of the nature of this moment. Is this the beginning of a new [...]

The End of Empire?

©2024 11/18/24 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-end-of-empire/ For years I’ve studied the histories of empires, especially their rise and their fall. Europe’s most illustrious example, Rome, grew from a city to a state and finally a world empire. When their men tired of fighting, they trained non-Romans in their war tactics, and when they were treated with contempt by Romans, they responded by sacking the city and stealing their treasure before leaving. It [...]

G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas

G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas [Excerpts] By Pepe Escobar / The Cradle The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geo-politically and geo-economically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. With Rio providing the ultimately gorgeous set, at the very least, tempers at the renovated Museum of Modern Art, the G20 venue with the Sugarloaf in the background, [...]

BRICS: Anti-imperialist or Sub-imperialist?

BRICS, sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange Patrick Bond interviewed  by Federico Fuentes https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/brics-sub-imperialism-and-unequal-ecological-exchange Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist and author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. In part 2 of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, he discusses some of the limitations in Vladimir Lenin’s views on imperialism and the need to incorporate the concept of "unequal ecological [...]

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to [...]

A I squared:

Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Most of the fears expressed about A-I have focused on a couple of issues. There are fears of a fourth industrial revolution in which massive numbers of intellectual, professional, and creative workers are replaced by automatons, along with other skilled and unskilled "blue collar" workers like drivers, warehouse workers, clerks and others. On a more [...]

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