Geopolitics

As NATO leaders gathered in Ankara to plan for war with Russia, tens of thousands are already dying from extreme heat across Europe.

Trump’s Ankara bluster was for the cameras. The real story is NATO quietly locking in a war-fighting alliance aimed at China.

Trump’s contradictions – threatening annihilation one day, offering Iran a free pass the next – reveal a deeper shift. The question now isn’t who's winning in Gaza or Lebanon, but whether Israel is still worth the cost to US imperialism, say Brian Green and Carol Taylor.

From the Straits of Hormuz to the skies over Tel Aviv, the US-Iran deal to end the war isn't a diplomatic triumph, it's a strategic defeat on the scale of Vietnam – and the world knows it.

The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the global south, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges in his latest Substack piece.

Two presidential visits to the Chinese capital for two summits with the Chinese president. Brian Green reports on two very different outcomes for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

On May Day, artist, poet and writer Gordon Liddle offers some apposite reflections on Iran and other oncoming supply catastrophes.