Many nations have loudly proclaimed that the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza must not be interrupted with a cease-fire, because “Israel has the right to defend itself.” They have avoided asking the question: “since Israel has the right to defend itself, why didn’t it do so on October 7?” 

As the West remains committed to genocidal wars and failed neoliberalism, its economies are shaking, and an alternative system is arising

Nov. 1—What the suffering world now needs is a Peace of Westphalia-type, new security architecture, based on mutual economic benefit, or the thrashing old order will blow out with no replacement by anything at all, except chaos and doom.