By Jay Evensen* – Deseret News Muhammed Yunus, a frequent visitor to Utah and helper of the poor, needs support from the U.S. against baseless charges that could put him in prison Muhammed Yunus, the 82-year-old financial wizard and friend of Utah, who won the Nobel Peace Prize…
Editorial – The Guardian Visits by Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have thrown relations in the region into the spotlight The impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to ripple across the globe. The primary driver of the flurry of diplomatic activity in the Middle East is the…
Freedman – Newsweek Most legal and constitutional experts agree: Given the facts that have come to light about former President Donald Trump’s role in the mob attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, it…
By Rebekah Koffler* – Newsweek As Putin’s war on Ukraine rages on and Washington continues to pledge more aid and weapons to the besieged nation, the entire situation is starting to look ever more like another Afghanistan. After less than five months of the Russia-Ukraine…
By Andi Hoxhaj* – The Conversation The EU continues to keep Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia on the waiting list to join, despite the possibility that the region could shift closer to Russia. Russia has long been an influential…
By Sebastián do Rosario and Federico Larsen* The Italian-Argentinian journalist, director of the OtherNews agency, is a point of reference for international information studies. Publisher of OtherNews, Roberto Savio is an economist, journalist, communication expert, political…
Polychroniou* – Truthout After 18 months in office, President Joe Biden decided to pay a visit to the Middle East region. Oil is most likely what is dragging him back to the Middle East, and why for months now he had been warming up to Saudi Arabia, despite having said as…
By Ben Beckett – Jacobin The American right increasingly looks to Hungary as a model for the United States. They already have the antidemocratic tactics down. Now they’re looking to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán for a comprehensive political philosophy to match.
By Nadia Batok* – MEER A different perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war With all due respect and grief for the Ukrainian victims and refugees of the ongoing brutal war, this war and all other wars in the world must end immediately. The West must stop arming Ukraine and start…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90…
