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Biden's presidency, the warmakers and the anti-war movement in the US

Anti-war sentiment has already impacted on the incoming Biden administration, but it will have to be mobilised to deliver change, argues Chris Nineham
Obama: the peacenik’s president?

Don’t believe the hype, the Obama administration’s war record is bloody and shameful, argues Lindsey German
Exit Obama: the strange death of American liberalism

After eight years of Democratic rule, the American brand of liberalism that accompanied the country’s rise to global hegemony looks exhausted
Corbyn and Obama: compare and contrast

Barack Obama's comments about Jeremy Corbyn expose how out of touch with reality American liberalism is, argues Ben Myers
This is where the work begins: on the streets against Trump

Indignation and anguish against Trump from thousands of young school students, as they walk out of classes and militancy mounts
The resistible rise of Trump

Alastair Stephens examines the contradictions raging through the primary elections in the US
Nato's dangerous game in the Balkans

Dragan Plavšić examines the drivers behind Nato expansion in the Balkans and the implications for the left in the region
Cameron knows that this is about sending ground troops

For David Cameron, airstrikes are a prelude to ground troops. All out to stop the second Iraq War, argues Kevin Ovenden
Code pink and black

Medea Benjamin talks to Counterfire about the prospects of American foreign policy, the anti-war sentiment in the US, and the Black Lives Matter movement
Obama's midterm blues

The US midterm elections will be of marginal relevance to an electorate increasingly turning their backs on the status quo as a means of delivering change writes Sean Ledwith
The making of Iraq War III

Sean Ledwith investigates the history of Western involvement in Iraq that has led the US into a third war in the country

Obama

Obama

Anti-war sentiment has already impacted on the incoming Biden administration, but it will have to be mobilised to deliver change, argues Chris Nineham

Don’t believe the hype, the Obama administration’s war record is bloody and shameful, argues Lindsey German

After eight years of Democratic rule, the American brand of liberalism that accompanied the country’s rise to global hegemony looks exhausted

Barack Obama's comments about Jeremy Corbyn expose how out of touch with reality American liberalism is, argues Ben Myers

Indignation and anguish against Trump from thousands of young school students, as they walk out of classes and militancy mounts

Alastair Stephens examines the contradictions raging through the primary elections in the US

Dragan Plavšić examines the drivers behind Nato expansion in the Balkans and the implications for the left in the region

For David Cameron, airstrikes are a prelude to ground troops. All out to stop the second Iraq War, argues Kevin Ovenden

Medea Benjamin talks to Counterfire about the prospects of American foreign policy, the anti-war sentiment in the US, and the Black Lives Matter movement

The US midterm elections will be of marginal relevance to an electorate increasingly turning their backs on the status quo as a means of delivering change writes Sean Ledwith

Sean Ledwith investigates the history of Western involvement in Iraq that has led the US into a third war in the country