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Gaza, Saudi, Iran, Venezuela and More: Some of the Most Significant Geopolitical Events of 2023
By Ramzy Baroud All of these geopolitical shifts are likely to stay with us in 2024, leading to yet other significant changes to the world’s political map and, unfortunately, yet more conflicts, as well. […]

‘Epidemic’ or Revolution: The Other Side of the West Africa Upheaval
By Ramzy Baroud The political discourse emanating from West Africa, although largely inaccessible, speaks of a collective desire for a paradigm shift. What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is […]

Asia’s ‘Strategic Autonomy’: How the New Era Could Shape Our Collective Identities
By Ramzy Baroud In modern times, as in the past, common identities are ordered around common interests and new power paradigms. In a recent speech, China’s highest-ranking diplomat, Wang Yi, spoke of a ‘united […]

Norman Solomon’s ‘War Made Invisible’ Refutes Collusion with War Makers – Book Review
By Kathy Kelly (War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon, The New Press, 2023) Following a string of United States “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, […]

Xi’s ‘Chilling’ Remarks: A Multipolar World Offers Challenges and Opportunities to the Middle East and Africa
By Ramzy Baroud The final exchange, caught on camera between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian host and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, sums up the current geopolitical conflict, still in its nascent stages, […]

America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present – Book Review
By Jim Miles (America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present. John Ghazvinian. Vintage Books, Penguin Random House, New York, 2021.) The relationship between Iran and America has been one of tension, misunderstandings, and […]

Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West
By Ramzy Baroud Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a social […]

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. Walter Russell Mead. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2022.) In today’s world, a clear understanding of […]

Imperialism 2022: Why is the Russia-Ukraine War Important for Palestinians
By Roger Van Zwanenberg How is best to understand the war in Ukraine? Why is this war so important for the Palestinian struggle? How to make sense of everything by examining the big picture? On […]

Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo This is, according to the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the ‘interregnum’- the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and […]

WATCH: Full Palestine Chronicle Interview with Professor Noam Chomsky
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestine Chronicle editors Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo hosted a special guest on Thursday, June 16, IMT Professor and world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky. The wide-ranging interview examined numerous topics. Though […]

‘Stand on Guard for Whom?’: A People’s History of the Canadian Military – Book Review
By Jim Miles (‘Stand on Guard for Whom?’: A People’s History of the Canadian Military, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2021) For a short while, at least as announced by the mainstream media, Canada found itself […]

The World ‘Hanging by a Thread’: Stories to Follow in 2022
By Ramzy Baroud Though 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues from the previous year that will linger for a bit, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news […]

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power – Book Review
By Jim Miles (In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Alfred W. McCoy. Haymarket Books, Chicago. 2017) Reading “In the Shadows of the American Century” is a […]

Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. Mark Charles, and Soon-Chan Rah. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois. 2019.) The Doctrine of Discovery, created in a series of Papal […]

Days of the Future Passed: Point of No Return
By Jim Miles One of the more pivotal years in modern history was 1979 and its geopolitical events. Until recently I had considered them to be the most important alignment of events influencing future actions. […]

The World is Changing: China Launches Campaign for Superpower Status
By Ramzy Baroud The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long realized that, […]

Wealth and Power (PART II): Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the Path to Global War
By Roger Van Zwanenberg (Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War) This is a history blog… Unlike any history you have […]

Wealth and Power (PART I): Understanding Colonialism
By Roger Van Zwanenberg (Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 1: Understanding Colonialism and the impoverishment of the world and the enrichment of Western Europe) This is a history blog… […]

Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 (Preface)
By Roger Van Zwanenberg (Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020. Roger Van Zwanenberg.) The global relations of power were altered fundamentally after these 30 turbulent years. In 1914 Britain was the […]