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The most interesting story is not merely that U.S. defense contractors profited from the Iran war, but that financial markets began pricing in those profits even before the first missiles struck. Investors anticipated a long cycle of missile replenishment, drone procurement, air-defense expansion and fighter aircraft sales across the Middle East, Europe and Asia. The war may eventually end, but the contracts generated by it could last for years.

MINNEAPOLIS: Entering her second full-term as AFL-CIO President, Liz Shuler laid out big plans for the nation’s labour federation over the next five years. For the current midterm elections, the federation plans to put 50,000 “election protectors” in the field.

Marking exactly 100 days since a catastrophic conflict reordered the Middle East, a fragile, US-brokered truce violently collapsed as Israeli jets struck deep inside Iranian territory. By directly defying President Donald Trump’s explicit warnings to exercise restraint, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed the region into uncharted waters, leaving a heavily anticipated peace deal dead in the water.

NEW YORK: For more than two months, Bolivian Indigenous and working people have been protesting the repressive measures imposed by the government of conservative President Rodrigo Paz, in office since Nov. 8, 2025. Since he took office, it has been one attack after another against living standards and stability.

LONDON: In 1895, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary that the penniless population of Palestine must be “spirited across the border,” discreetly and circumspectly. In 1948, that vision became policy. With the Nakba, approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, their land absorbed by the newly declared state of Israel. In 1967 came the Naksa. In 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, 2006, it happened to southern Lebanon. Each time the world called it a “crisis”; each time it was Israeli strategy.

NEWYORK: For nearly four months, President Donald Trump has projected confidence that America could sustain a military confrontation with Iran while simultaneously negotiating peace from a position of strength. This week, however, the strongest challenge to that assumption did not come from Tehran, Moscow, Beijing, or even America's traditional European allies.

Geoeconomic fragmentation imposing an annual cost of $213–$307 billion on the global economy, according to a new World Economic Forum report release on June 4. Driven by geopolitical tensions, economic security concerns and shifting trade relationships across major economies, fragmentation accelerated through 2025 and 2026 and is increasingly affecting trade, finance and investment systems.

WASHINGTON DC: As President Donald Trump’s planned taxpayer-paid birthday bash June 14 concert collapsed, activists—led by labour, the No Kings movement, and 50501—stepped up plans for events opposing his agenda this week.

LONDON: Raul Castro was born on June 3 in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931. If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutionary it is today. Castro, Cuba’s former president, has been accused by the US regime of being a terrorist over the shooting-down of two aircraft three decades ago.

Oil prices are unlikely to return to pre-war levels in the short to medium term at least, a shift that could keep inflation elevated, delay interest-rate cuts, and reshape investment returns across global markets.