Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia's war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture Ilya Budraitskis: With the beginning of Trump's second term, the world is experiencing a tremendous geopolitical shift, and I would like to start discussing it with the question of NATO's future. Today, it is obvious that the alliance is in a situation of strategic and ideological crisis. (…)

Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah. A Palestinian mother mourns over the body of her 15-year-old daughter Raghad Abu Amra at Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills) Since October 7, Israeli cabinet ministers, political figures, military officers and media pundits have openly and endlessly incited for the (…)

The army is using an algorithm it knows to be inaccurate to declare Gaza neighborhoods as “green,” or cleared of residents, and carry out airstrikes — killing hundreds of civilians in recent weeks, a joint investigation reveals. In recent weeks, the Israeli army has been launching airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Gaza that they treat as evacuated, despite knowing that many of the houses bombed were filled with civilians who could not or did not want to leave, according to two (…)

Like many American Jews, I was brought up to see Israel as infallible. Living among Palestinians taught me vital truths about the reality of the occupation. The writer among residents of Umm al-Khair, in the southern West Bank, December 2024. (Khadija Toufik) Growing up in the American Orthodox Jewish world, spending a post-high school year studying Torah in Israel was simply what one did. I chose to attend a “mechina” – an Israeli military preparatory program — unaware that what I (…)

Après six mois de crise politique et économique déclenchée par la tentative de coup de force du président destitué, la quatrième économie d'Asie a élu à sa tête le démocrate de centre-gauche Lee Jae-myung, avec un fort taux de participation. Séoul (Corée du Sud).– À chaque score affiché sur l'immense écran installé devant l'Assemblée nationale sud-coréenne, les cris de joie des manifestant·es, drapé·es de bleu, la couleur du Parti démocrate (PD, progressiste), se font entendre. Alors que (…)

Aujourd'hui, 29 mai 2025, une conférence sur l'agriculture et la réforme agraire s'est tenue à la salle Jahur Hossain Chowdhury du Club national de la presse à Dhaka. Cette conférence était organisée par la Bangladesh Krishok Federation [BKF, Fédération des paysans du Bangladesh] et présidée par le camarade Badrul Alam, président de la Fédération Krishok du Bangladesh. L'invité d'honneur, Hossain Zillur Rahman, ancien conseiller en commerce et en éducation du gouvernement intérimaire, (…)