Новости за 11.03.2026

Bilateral negotiations are rarely simple, as the late-February negotiations between Iranians and Americans have recently shown. As an American-Swiss citizen, I can recount a story of successful negotiations I had with the Iranian government several years ago in a very different environment, fully aware of the tension between the United States and Iran and the positive role Switzerland’s “good offices” played between the two countries. More

Sixty-three years ago, Hannah Arendt coined the concept of the “banality of evil,” describing Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann as disturbingly normal rather than a monstrous fanatic.  Arendt didn’t mean that Eichmann was not evil, but that he was a small and ordinary man with an “inability to think for himself.”  She found a “depthless ordinariness” in Eichmann at his trial in Jerusalem, which accounted for the provocative term of “banality.”   More

There has been a lot of sloppy commentary from people who should know better about who is being hit hardest by the runup in oil and natural gas prices since the start of the war in Iran. There’s a simple story where the countries in Europe and East Asia are the big losers, because they produce relatively little of their own oil. By contrast, the United States is supposedly relatively well-off since we are largely self-sufficient and in fact a net exporter of natural gas. More

All the way back in 2023, the surgeon general diagnosed Americans as suffering from an epidemic of loneliness. More recently, amid the rise of American fascism, I started to notice that people were not only lonely but had also begun referring to the world as simply “the news.” Perceived that way — as a phenomenon pre-packaged via our More

“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.” – James Baldwin An aerial photo shows rectangular tracings etched into dirt, one rectangle after the other, creating a grid across the land. A yellow excavator pulls piles of earth out from within the rectangular lines until each rectangle is More

Antonio Lobo Antunes’s fiction challenged colonialism and fascist dictatorship. It is a necessary sentence that mainstream publications are incapable of producing this week, as Portugal lost one of its greatest novelists on March 5. Maybe this sentence doesn’t sell. Authors I know who hide from politics say we have enough politics on our phones. Besides, More

To expand a stockpile of both the useless and the mindlessly murderous in a military sense would seem to be a wasteful exercise best contemplated in the psychiatric ward.  But such a ward is increasingly occupied by the world’s leaders, and war is on their lost minds.  As Israel and the United States continue their crime of More

There are two wars taking place in Iran – one being fought by the United States, the other by Israel. For the U.S., the war against Iran is a war of distraction. For Israel, the war against Iran – and Gaza and Lebanon – is also a war of distraction as well as a war More

The vast majority of workers in the United States pay income and payroll taxes on all of their earnings throughout the year. For most, this includes an ever-present 6.2 percent employee-side payroll tax for Social Security, the vital program that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to millions. On March 9, however, those with wage More

The attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel are unraveling international law, the Geneva Conventions and the legitimacy of the United Nations. This is extremely dangerous for the future of the planet and humanity. If the United States and Israel have the right to launch a unilateral attack against Iran, what is the More

Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution More