By Priyal Singh* and Ronak Gopaldas* – Institute for Security Studies (ISS) The 2025 US National Security Strategy recasts Africa from partner to price tag in a transactional, resource-driven era of great-power rivalry. Amid a turbulent start to the year and the emergence of the…
By Jonathan Cook* – Middle East Eye A handful of figures will be sacrificed – but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don’t apply to the ruling elite. If you struggle to cope with the endless pressure to communicate in an ever-more connected world, spare a…
By Jason Reed* – Meer Unelected EU leaders act as Europe’s voice, pushing national governments aside The European Union enjoys enormous political and policymaking power. It is a far cry from a simple trade bloc or other trade unions like the CPTPP, which Britain joined after…
By Rameen Siddiqui* – Modern Diplomacy For the first time in more than half a century, the world’s two largest nuclear powers will operate without mutual limits on their long-range arsenals. February 5, 2026, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United…
By Jamal Meselmani* – The Cradle The US is weaponizing artificial intelligence to hardwire imperial control into the digital infrastructure of its allies and rivals alike. For over a century, oil pipelines and shipping lanes have underpinned the world’s military and economic…
By Rameen Siddiqui* – Modern Diplomacy The template is identical: ignore the political dispute, deploy economic development as the solution, assume people will trade sovereignty for prosperity. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law stood before global elites in Davos and unveiled…
By Antón Gómez-Reino Varela* – International Politics and Society (IPS-Journal)* Against the European trend, Spain aims to legalise half a million migrants. A strategic step to secure the country’s economic and demographic future.
By Leon Hadar* – Global Zetgeist Substack The Specter of a Regional War. As the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group steams through the Arabian Sea and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warns that any American attack would trigger a regional war.
By Lawrence Davidson* – Consortium News Israeli culture mimics the genocidal mindset of Nazi-era Germans who once targeted them, explains Lawrence Davidson. On 29th of December 2025, The New York Times reprinted an article entitled, “At Last, a Name for the Face of a Nazi…
By Manolo De Los Santos* – Peoples Dispatch On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation. In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum…
