By John Feffer* – TomDispatch And Yet America First Means America Alone. A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Barack Obama billed the...

By Laura Mahrenbach*, Narayanappa Janardhan*, Gedaliah Afterman*, and Maximilian Mayer* – Responsible Statecraft Often crossing continents, ‘workarounding’ is a strategy allowing states to cooperate on trade and policy outside rigid U.S.-China alignments. The global order was already fragmenting before Donald Trump returned to the White House. But the upended “rules”...

By Guy Standing* – Article sen to to Other News by the Author Freedom of speech has received a lot of attention recently. In the UK, it has been partly because of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act of 2023, which in amended form came into effect in August,...

By Nasratullah Taban* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Children are denied education, women are barred from work, and minorities live under constant threat. Four years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan is experiencing what many call a “great muting.” This is not just the result of war or...

By Samuel King* – Inter Press Service (IPS) In early January, an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela followed a familiar path of paralysis. Members clashed over the US government’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro, with many warning it set a dangerous precedent, but no resolution came. This wasn’t exceptional....