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by Aaron Kirshenbaum

Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French government also counted over 2,000 excess deaths during the June heatwaves. At the same time, this past weekend, a devastating super typhoon hit the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, leaving islands like Rota, where 2,000 people live, without running water and most buildings impacted.

by Stephen Zunes

The United States has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the past few weeks alone, the Trump administration has vowed to eradicate the top court, pressured countries to withdraw from it, and has attacked progressive political leaders like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who seek to carry out its mandates. These attacks are jarring, but they are not new, are not only about Israel, and are not just coming from Republicans.

by Carlos Ron

The pardon of Washington's ally Juan Orlando Hernández amid an uptick in the US war on drugs signals that trafficking is forgivable, even pardonable, in an ally. Sovereignty is the only unforgivable crime.

by Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad examines how Iran is seeking to reshape the framework of Middle Eastern diplomacy, moving the discussion beyond its nuclear programme toward a broader debate over regional security, foreign military deployments, sanctions and maritime access. The emerging Iran-Oman discussions over the Strait of Hormuz illustrate this shift, while the Iran-Saudi rapprochement and growing regional diplomacy involving China, Pakistan and other states point to a less exclusively US-led regional order. The article argues that lasting stability will require negotiations involving all major security concerns rather than arrangements that place the burden of compliance primarily on one country. Iran’s strategy is changing the terms of the debate.

by Júlia Marcon

In August 2026, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki mark 81 years. Eighty-one years later, we still face the possibility that nuclear weapons could be used again. Eighty-one years later, survivors continue to live with the physical and psychological consequences of radiation exposure. Eighty-one years later, existing nuclear arsenals are far more powerful and destructive than the bombs dropped in 1945, and the humanitarian consequences of any future nuclear detonation would be catastrophic.

by Craig Mokhiber

Unlike the Zionist claim that "Israel has a right to exist," my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.

by Benyasiri Eimviriyapong, Fatima Shahzad

This article examines how debt, financial dependence, military alliances, and technological control continue to shape power relations across Asia long after formal colonial rule. Drawing on discussions at the Hands Off Asia conference in Colombo, it explores perspectives from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Thailand on economic sovereignty, democratic struggles, and the enduring impact of international financial institutions and geopolitical competition. The authors argue that political independence alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty without control over economic policy, resources, technology, and democratic participation. The article situates these debates within broader movements seeking alternative paths for Asia’s future.

by Ted Trainer

Thriving, highly self-sufficient communities, run by cooperative, conscientious, self-governing citizens living very frugally, should be the vision the Transition Towns movement illustrates and promotes as a global solution to the polycrisis. Yet this does not seem to be the movement’s central driving motivation.

by Spanish Movement of Solidarity with Cuba

MESC denounced the unjustified withholding of two shipments of aid destined for Cuba, sent from Catalonia and Madrid, by decision of two international shipping companies, fearful of being sanctioned from the United States government.

by Preetham George Kuryan, Dr Rashmi Rai & Dr Kuryan George

India’s expanding digital health infrastructure and insurance-based care have improved administrative reach, but they have also intensified pressures on healthcare workers. This article argues that an excessive focus on metrics, surveillance and standardized targets is eroding clinical autonomy, meaningful patient care and workforce wellbeing. Drawing on the experiences of doctors, community health officers and ASHA workers, the authors contend that sustainable healthcare requires balancing efficiency with empathy, fair labour practices and professional judgment. They call for reforms that value frontline workers, reduce administrative burdens and place human dignity at the centre of India’s public health system.

Nuclear promoters press ahead, ignoring this summer's dramatic warnings

At the same time that the Supreme Court is making the political landscape less competitive, a series of corporate law developments are concentrating power within the commanding heights of the data economy.

From Israel and Russia to Germany and Japan, we can find nationalists laying claim to a state of perpetual victimhood to justify present-day chauvinism. This brand of “victimhood nationalism” is becoming a powerful and pernicious force in global politics.

The United States has stopped pretending that the Monroe Doctrine was about anything other than its own freedom of action. Donald Trump has now declared dominance over the entire western hemisphere.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey makes for fantastic moviegoing. It also advances a fundamentally conservative view of society.

The startling growth of hyperscale data centers for processing artificial intelligence threatens to exacerbate the climate crisis, the jobs crisis, and the affordability crisis. This commentary presents an overview of the data center explosion and its likely effects. The next commentary in this series will examine the emerging “Data Center Rebellion” and how it can become a major force promoting a Greentech New Deal.

The post Will Data Centers Derail the Greentech Revolution? first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing the Delivery Protection Act, a piece of local legislation which would require Amazon to directly employ their drivers. It could open a lane for drivers to unionize — and is thus seen as an existential threat by Amazon.

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Under the cover of earthquake response, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has dramatically reversed Colombia’s stance toward Israel, recognizing controversial Israeli claims over the occupied Golan Heights.

James Carville is threatening to leave the Democrats if socialists keep advancing. James, if you can figure out how to launch a viable centrist third party and break the bipartisan stranglehold, we socialists would welcome it.