Around the world – Page 2 – Struggle

Israel burns homes in Lebanon with U.S.-made incendiary weapons

March 18, 2026 Gary Wilson

On the morning of March 3, Israeli forces fired white phosphorus shells over residential neighborhoods in Yohmor, a village in southern Lebanon. The shells burst in the air above homes, scattering burning fragments across the […]

Trump’s Iran war: Washington starts it, allies made to pay

March 17, 2026 Gary Wilson

On March 19, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will arrive in Washington with an offer for the Trump administration: Japan will join the Golden Dome missile defense project and help replenish U.S. weapons stocks depleted […]

Digital extraction and the new logic of underdevelopment

March 17, 2026 Prince Ifoh

Africa’s incorporation into global capitalism has never been neutral. From the Atlantic slave trade through colonial rule and into the post-independence era, the continent has been structurally positioned as a source of value for others […]

Iran, the yuan and the dollar sanctions system

March 15, 2026 Gary Wilson

Reports emerging in early March suggest Iran may allow limited tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz — on one condition: payment must be made in Chinese yuan. The claim comes from an unnamed Iranian […]

When imperialism disappears from view

March 12, 2026 Gary Wilson

Wars destroy cities and take lives. They also shake the world economy. Oil prices jump, shipping routes close, inflation rises and recession risks grow. For that reason, many analyses of the U.S. war on Iran […]

War, profit, and the dollar’s retreat

March 11, 2026 Gary Wilson

Washington’s war against Iran, launched Feb. 28 with the U.S.–Israeli assault known as Operation Epic Fury, began with a burst of spending. In the first 100 hours alone the Pentagon burned through an estimated $3.7 […]

Washington wants out. Iran isn’t opening the door.

March 10, 2026 Gary Wilson

Eleven days into Operation Epic Fury, Washington faces a problem it created for itself: how to exit a war it cannot win. Trump’s advisers are privately urging him to find an off-ramp. The Wall Street […]

Brooklyn march to free Cilia Flores: Solidarity with Venezuelan women!

March 9, 2026 Melinda Butterfield

On International Women’s Day, March 8, a crowd marched to MDC Brooklyn, a federal detention center in the Sunset Park neighborhood, to demand freedom for Venezuelan First Combatant Cilia Flores and President Nicolás Maduro, as […]

Oil war sends the bill to workers

March 9, 2026 Gary Wilson

Gas prices are rising across the United States — the first cost of Washington’s war on Iran. The reason lies thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf. U.S. airstrikes against Iran beginning Feb. 28 […]

Iran destroys the radar systems at the heart of U.S. missile defense

March 8, 2026 Gary Wilson

Washington launched Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several top commanders in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike. What followed was not the collapse and capitulation that U.S. war planners […]