Australia: Disability services cuts spearhead Labor’s productivity “roundtable”

Just three months after being re-elected, the Albanese Labor government used a three-day “Economic Reform Roundtable” this week to outline far-reaching measures to boost corporate profits and cut social spending, none of... Read more »

Dutch foreign minister resigns over Israel sanctions deadlock | European Union News

Caspar Veldkamp and other ministers step down after cabinet rejects sanctions against Israel, prompting broader political upheaval. Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has resigned after failing to secure cabinet support for additional... Read more »

The political lessons of Netanyahu’s fascistic tirades against Australian Prime Minister Albanese

Elevenlabs AudioNative Player Over recent days, Israeli Prime Minister and arch-war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has intensified his attacks on the Australian Labor government and its Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, accusing them of... Read more »

Behind India’s massive Russian oil imports: Asia’s richest man | Donald Trump News

United States President Donald Trump’s additional 25 percent tariff on India for its imports from Russia, saying it is helping fuel Russia’s war in Ukraine, has put the South Asian nation in... Read more »

Kenya’s National People’s Council: A petty-bourgeois nationalist trap for the Gen Z revolt

The 2024–2025 Gen Z protests, the largest and most sustained mass movement in Kenya’s post-independence history, erupted in June 2024 against President William Ruto’s International Monetary Fund-dictated Finance Bill. The bill doubled... Read more »

Israeli attacks kill 40 across Gaza as military escalates Gaza City assault | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s military has intensified its attacks on Gaza City with air strikes on heavily populated areas, as it pushes ahead with the initial stage of an operation to seize the enclave’s main... Read more »

Israel launches onslaught against Gaza City

An Israeli tank moves through an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. [AP Photo/Maya Levin] The Israeli military has begun its onslaught on Gaza... Read more »

Israel pounds Gaza, killing 81, as it begins assault to seize Gaza City | Israel-Palestine conflict News

At least 81 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks and forced starvation since dawn as the Israeli military said it had begun the first stages of its planned assault... Read more »

German government plans to cut housing costs amid drastically rising rents

Demonstration against high rents in Berlin, September 2021. Banner reads: “Together against Displacement and #CollectiveMadness” The German government is planning a reform of the citizen’s allowance (Bürgergeld) welfare payments, which would cut... Read more »

Why is the US sparing China, but not India, for importing Russian oil? | Business and Economy News

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to slap new sanctions on Russia and secondary sanctions on countries that buy Moscow’s crude in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war. While Trump imposed... Read more »