By Harald Kujat* and Michael von der Schulenburg* – Article sent to Other News by the authors A call for peace on the 4th anniversary of the war in Ukraine. The world is currently experiencing one of the most profound geopolitical upheavals since the end of the Second World War…
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.
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…
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, but more…
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…
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…
By Nuvpreet Kalra* – Common Dreams In both Cuba and Palestine, the United States is deploying its barbaric methods of producing mass suffering in order to bring about political and economic submission. Last week, the US government announced it would be sending $6 million in aid…
By Eric Alter* – Asia Times Gratitude benchmark quietly reshaping who counts as a true US partner and who gets sidelined for not showing enough appreciation. In US foreign policy right now, there is a growing split between countries Washington considers “grateful” and those it…
By Guilherme Schneider* – Modern Diplomacy Latin America is often described as a region “caught” between major powers; the language itself reveals a hidden assumption: that Latin American states have no agency, only alignment. Latin America is often described as a region…
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist.
