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  COUNTERCURRENTS NEWSLETTER POSTED IN ITS ENTIRETY DUE TO  SIGNIFICANT GLOBAL ISSUES! Dear Friend, This issue arrives amid a widening arc of conflict and consequence. From escalating tensions around Iran to continuing violence in Palestine and Lebanon, the pattern is clear: military actions intensify while diplomatic pathways narrow. At the same time, deeper structural questions—about imperial power, economic strain, technological control, and the erosion of public rights—surface across regions and disciplines. The essays in this issue do not treat these crises as isolated events. They situate them within longer histories of intervention, inequality, and resistance, while also examining the responsibilities of intellectuals, movements, and institutions in such a moment. Alongside analyses of war and power, we carry reflections on climate urgency, caste, democracy, and the possibilities of peace-building from below. In a time of fragmentation, the task remains to connect, to u...

  Today in Politics, Bulletin 94. 3/18/25 Ron Filipkowski Mar 18 ∙ … MN State Sen.  Justin Eichorn  was arrested for soliciting a 16-year-old girl for sex, who turned out to be an undercover police officer. Eichorn is a Republican who is married with 4 children. He made national headlines earlier this week for being a sponsor of a bill that would declare ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ a mental illness. … Now he’s making headlines in other ways. … Amazing how this just keeps happening over and over and over. …  Trump  had his big phone call with  Putin  today to try to allegedly persuade him to sign a ceasefire agreement as a precursor to a negotiated permanent peace agreement. Putin essentially said that if Ukraine and the US agree to all of his demands then he might consider signing a cease fire. Both sides also issued statements about the call that were different in some key details. … From the White House readout of the call: “The leaders agreed that...