Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging U.S.-China trade relations, and it’s not the Chinese. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to damage the U.S. economy after…
Home » Workers unite! » On the Picket Line Kaiser strike Approximately 45,000 health care workers held a five day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across Hawaii, California and Oregon. The strike affected over 500 facilities and was the largest in health care union history. Striking workers included registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse…
It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American Muslim political agenda. The point, which took many by surprise, was enunciated by a young American Pakistani Muslim academic, whose name is not important…
Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game that aims to shape the creation of a new Eurasia-centred world, built on the likely fusion of Europe and Asia into what former Portuguese Europe minister Bruno Macaes calls a “supercontinent.” For…
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND — What is without question the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history took place on Friday when shooters, 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant among them, opened fire at two Christchurch mosques. Four, including Tarrant, have been arrested for the heinous act, which claimed at least 49 innocent lives. Tarrant was responsible for…
Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade, they have been spreading provable falsehoods through their well-organized network of publications and websites. A major theme of those falsehoods is telling the U.S. public that Islam…
Since time immemorial, it has been an article of faith of every Muslim that suicide is ‘Haram’ (prohibited) in Islam. There is a well-known Islamic precept that whoever commits suicide will go straight to hell. But the Takfirists (those who declare others as heretics) have invented a new interpretation of Islam in which suicide is glorified…
Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging U.S.-China trade relations, and it’s not the Chinese. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to damage the U.S. economy after…
Home » Workers unite! » On the Picket Line Kaiser strike Approximately 45,000 health care workers held a five day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across Hawaii, California and Oregon. The strike affected over 500 facilities and was the largest in health care union history. Striking workers included registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse…
Home » Global » Israel continues its war crimes The following statement was posted by The Cradle on Oct. 19, 2025. In a new statement, Hamas says it has fully abided by the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct. 9, 2025, under the sponsorship of Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye and the U.S., while…
Given the long list of its genocidal recipients, the Nobel Peace Prize was already considered by many as a sham award. But new laureate Maria Corina Machado outdid her peers by immediately dedicating her prize to Donald Trump and endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his attack on Gaza and beyond. Machado, the leader…