By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com The New Age of Power and Peril. The world’s geopolitical centre of gravity is shifting once again, and the personal diplomacy of US President Donald Trump is increasingly part of the equation. His complex and often controversial…
By Brad Reed* – Common Dreams “The number and cruelty of allegations compiled portray gross disregard by Israel of its duty to treat all detainees humanely.” A United Nations expert on Tuesday delivered a report offering evidence of systemic torture, brutality, and sexual abuse…
By Nii Lantey Bortey* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) U.S. unraveling will not be imposed from abroad. It will come from within. The United States is not approaching collapse because it lacks power.
By Matthias Matthijs* and Nathalie Tocci** – Foreign Affairs Trump’s Overreach Has Finally Forged Continental Unity. When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, European countries at first chose appeasement as their preferred U.S. strategy.
By Joshua Scheer – SheerPost Europe’s political class is sleepwalking into a catastrophe of its own design. In a sweeping, blistering conversation with Glenn Diesen, economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs lays out how the continent—once poised to build a “common European home”…
By Eric Ross* – Common Dreams A US invasion would hardly inaugurate a new conflict. It would instead mark the bloodiest phase in a long, bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty.
By Sana Khan* – Modern Diplomacy Recent meetings between United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have revived debate about whether the world is moving toward a new era dominated by cooperation between its two largest powers. Recent meetings between…
By Patrick Lawrence* – Consortium News Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation. Iranians are Hô Chi Minh’s grasshoppers taking on a colonial elephant. No one can say with certainty, at this writing, how Iran’s…
By Violeta Nuñez Rodríguez* – CounterPunch* Women and Children: Data on the Genocide (number of people or %) Women and girls killed: 38,000 Women killed: 22,000 Girls killed: 16,000 Women and girls killed per day: 47 (approximately) Girls and boys killed: 21,289 Children killed…
Sachs* – South China Morning Post The IMF assumes China should save less. China’s saving is key to financing the developing world’s need for green infrastructure.
