“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly (or, in this case, four-monthly) chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism...

The year-old Israeli-Hamas war is, we are told, spreading across the region. Following Israel’s bizarre “pager  attack” last month the IDF have “shifted focus” to Lebanon. Two days ago...

Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began their theatrical “debate”), it being another September 11th, I...

“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s soon…” “Something’s Coming,” lyrics by S. Sondheim, music by...

Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with “conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia”. Details are...

Edward Curtin “You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse When...

There’s a lot of “World War Three” in the news right now. Grant Shapps, the UK’s defence minister has claimed we have “moved from a post-war to a pre-war...

In just the last few days ISIS – Islamic State or ISIL or Da’esh or whatever – have hit the headlines in publications from all over the world. A...

Todd Hayen There is a strange idea hovering about that if you don’t know something then it doesn’t exist. Kind of like the image of the proverbial ostrich with...

Simon Elmer “It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by...

Gavin O’Reilly Gustavo Petro’s victory in Sunday’s Colombian Presidential election, marking the first time Bogotá has elected a left-wing head of state, was not the only far-reaching geopolitical event...

Gavin O’Reilly Although receiving miniscule media coverage, Thursday’s announcement that Israel had deployed military infrastructure to the UAE and Bahrain in the shape of radar systems, ostensibly to counter...

Iran is set to be the first country to roll out a food rationing scheme based on new biometric IDs. Where vaccine passports failed, food passports will now be...

Gavin O’Reilly In the now month-long mainstream media coverage of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, much attention has been paid to the actions of the ‘Ukrainian Resistance’. In...

Gavin O’Reilly Over the past several days, the news story that has dominated British news headlines, and consequently, the news headlines of the rest of the Western world, is...

Vanessa Beeley Washington and London’s latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured “uprising” erupted in 2011. This was not the first...

We all know the story of bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the story that was repeated ad nauseam in the days, weeks and months after the catastrophic, catalyzing events...

Graeme MacQueen Originally published in Truth and Shadows, March 13, 2017 On November 23, 1963, the day after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Fidel Castro gave a talk on Cuban...

Let's be clear, the US as an Imperial power simply cannot afford to give up Afghanistan. And they won't. They'll just recalibrate their word use and carry on. They'll...