🪖 Military

Yemen's missile strike on Riyadh's airport and Iran's mining of the Strait of Hormuz escalate regional tensions, as Israel and the US weigh new attacks on Iran and its allies.

Mattias Forsgren argues that Sweden's abandonment of neutrality for NATO membership deepens nuclear coercion and strategic dependence on the United States, and asks whether diplomacy can offer an alternative.

A British commodore argues Europe is courting a war with Russia it cannot sustain, examining Kaliningrad escalation risks, NATO readiness, failed diplomacy and the gap between public narratives and battlefield realities.

Iran's IRGC Navy reports a third oil supertanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz after ignoring warnings, vowing decisive responses against vessels cooperating with US forces as transit through the waterway collapses.

French high school students protest for education funding as the government cuts public services while raising military spending under NATO's new 5 percent GDP target.

Leaked British files reveal how London funded and directed the Iraqi youth platform Yalla through contractor M&C Saatchi to run a covert influence and behaviour-change campaign.

A former US Army officer and media analyst explains how Western intelligence agencies deploy AI, bot networks and skewed databases to shape public opinion, citing the Maidan operation and secret disinformation contracts.

Anti-genocide activists in Kalamata, Greece protest the arrival of an Israeli cruise ship, erecting posters accusing Israeli soldiers of war crimes while a journalist is harassed by Greek police.

An explainer tracing the roots of Russia's Special Military Operation to NATO expansion, the 2014 Euromaidan coup, Kiev's discrimination against Russian speakers, neo-Nazi glorification, corruption, and crimes abroad.

Russian and Lebanese foreign ministers met in Moscow to discuss Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, a Gaza ceasefire, the crisis over Iran, and Syria's post-conflict recovery and sovereignty.

A PSUV delegation in Mexico confronted Gustavo Petro over claims that Venezuela abandoned Cuban combatants during the January 3 US assault, amid disputes over sovereignty and electoral recognition.

Washington's push to reorganise Western Hemisphere mineral wealth around US industrial and military needs, from Latin American lithium to Greenland's rare earths, extends the Monroe Doctrine and pressures sovereign development.

Saudi Arabia's Operation Yemen's Dawn, a US- and Israeli-backed offensive to seize Yemen's western coast, collapsed as Ansarallah forces imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh and struck Saudi airbases and oil facilities.

Argentina and Israel signed a defense memorandum in Buenos Aires, deepening military cooperation under President Milei's alignment with Washington and Tel Aviv and extending existing regional security agreements.

Dimitri Lascaris argues Mark Carney's stand against Trump is a political scam, as Canada aligns with Washington on military spending, the digital services tax and the war on Iran while fast-tracking energy projects for US capital.

Dimitri Lascaris argues that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's anti-Trump reputation is a political scam, masking a neoliberal agenda aligned with Washington on military spending, digital taxes and war on Iran.

John Moolenaar demanded Starbucks close its two new Urumqi stores; he voted for a US$26 billion Israel aid package, while the Trump administration prepares a US$2.8 billion sale of 60,000 heavy bombs.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was illegally captured by the Israeli military on December 27, 2024; his weight dropped by one-third in captivity, where he remains alongside at least 160 other medical professionals, including 20 doctors.

A US federal judge denied medical bail for Venezuela's First Lady Cilia Flores despite her deteriorating cardiac condition, as solidarity campaigns demand the release of her and President Maduro.

An Ecuadorian judge acquitted 32 crew members of two fishing boats destroyed by US military forces in the Pacific, ruling that prosecutors presented no evidence linking them to drug trafficking.