By Imran Khalid* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Peace is not impossible, but the old ways of achieving it are increasingly obsolete. The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, has been widely...

By Kurniawan Arif Maspul* – Middle East Monitor  (MEMO) Silence, in international politics, is rarely neutral. In Sudan, it has become lethal. Three years into a civil war that has displaced more people than any other conflict on earth, the scale of devastation sits in jarring contrast with its absence...

By Talal Hassan* – Geopolitical Monitor There is a moment in war when the machinery of statecraft reaches for something older than the language of national interest and deterrence. In the Trump administration’s confrontation with Iran, that turn did not emerge from classified intelligence assessments or the halls of the...

By Prabhat Patnaik* – Newsclick It is the people of the Global South, not governments, who must resist this subversion of the concepts of the ‘nation’ and of non-alignment. The Indian government’s position on the US-Israeli war against Iran shows an unbelievable degree of pusillanimity. India attended the recent meeting...

By Marjorie Cohn* – Truthout Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon. While the world’s attention is focused on the U.S.-Israeli aggression in Iran and Donald Trump’s genocidal proclamations, Israel is perpetrating genocide in Lebanon. Trump threatened genocide in Iran on April 7, stating, “A...