By William LeoGrande* – Responsible Statecraft But he shouldn’t be surprised. American presidents have been predicting collapse there since 1959 and the conditions are no different today. Of the 100 or more people killed in the U.S. military operation that abducted Venezuelan…
By Eve Ottenberg* – Responsible Statecraft At the very least, the decision to cut loose every major Gaza humanitarian group could lead to the utter collapse of Trump’s peace plan. The Israeli noose around Gaza tightened December 30, with news that Jerusalem revoked the licenses…
By Connor Greene* – Time Violent protests in Iran over the country’s weakening economy have now stretched beyond ten days, killing at least 45 people and intensifying pressure on the Islamic Republic as it confronts its most sustained unrest in three years. Among the dead are…
By Leon Hadar* – Global Zetgeist Substack Trump’s Hemispheric Overreach and the Limits of American Power President Trump’s resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine—now rebranded as the “Donroe Doctrine” in an act of geopolitical ego-branding—represents yet another example of…
Editorial / Analysis – France 24 The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of dozens of international organisations, including key UN agencies and the treaty underpinning global climate talks, marking a deepening retreat from multilateral cooperation and drawing…
By Eldar Mamedov* – Responsible Statecraft Its tepid response to the US attack reinforces its weakness and undermines the case for defending Ukraine. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU high representative for foreign affairs Kaja Kallas said that “sovereignty, territorial…
By Nick Corbishley* – Naked Capitalism Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything, from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European— or later United States— capital, and as such has accumulated in distant centers of power.
Sachs* – Common Dreams The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over its affairs. Mr. President,Distinguished Members of the…
By Athanasios G. Platias* – Modern Diplomacy Washington is reviving the Monroe Doctrine not as a historical artifact but as a strategic choice.
By Ibrahim Quraishi* – CounterPunch What the United States is signaling in Venezuela is not merely a dispute over one government, one election, or one leader. It is a warning to the world that international law—already fragile, already selectively enforced—has now been openly…
