By Michael Hirsh* – Foreign Policy By embracing Syria’s Sharaa, Trump sanctifies Arab autocracy.  The meeting this week between a U.S. president who doesn’t care a fig for democracy and a former anti-American jihadist who is swiftly discovering that democracy isn’t likely to work in his country—war-torn Syria—amounted to more than...

By Margaret Knapke* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) The two authoritarian leaders are joining hands to assault human rights and democratic norms. On March 15, President Trump’s rendition of immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador stunned the world. They include 23 alleged members of MS-13 and 238...

By Anis Raiss* – The Cradle Trump is reshaping West Asia without Israel in the room – and Netanyahu can’t get him on the line. US President Donald Trump is currently touring the Persian Gulf – not Tel Aviv. Trillions are at stake, nuclear files are in motion, and Gaza...

By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* – Meer From the decline of peace to the rise of recolonization and genocide In this text, the hyper-contemporary age is situated between the end of World War II and the present day. As in previous ages, what one age leaves behind for the next...

By John R Bawden* – Asia Times South America diversifying trade away from a protectionist US, a trend set in train by win-win trade ties with China South America’s largest trading bloc, Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay), recently inked a comprehensive free trade deal with the European Union after more than 20...