By David Sogge* – Open Democracy The far-Right leader’s status as an international pariah masks some important points of continuity He may be welcome in Gulf sheikdoms, where religious faith and the sale of Brazilian military products, foodstuffs and even football clubs…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* There is a clear discomfort among international activists and commentators who follow the United Nations, as well as among former UN senior officials and special rapporteurs, with the organization’s growing irrelevance as the world is faced…
By Felix Light – The Moscow Times As a week of high-profile talks between Russia and the West ended in failure to resolve soaring tensions over Ukraine and NATO expansion, experts told The Moscow Times that stalemate had always been the probable outcome. “The result…
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton – National Security Archive Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner. Slavic Studies Panel…
By Christina Pazzanese – The Harvard Gazette Widespread armed conflict unlikely, but nation still in danger zone, says political scientist As the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol prepares for televised hearings later this…
By Borzou Daragahi – The Independent Djokovic saga has created a geopolitical storm while Serb nationalists consider him a martyr for their cause The troubles of anti-vaxxer tennis star Novak Djokovic in Australia are fuelling the flames…
By Anthony Dworkin* – European Council on Foreign Relations Tunisia’s international partners have responded too leniently to its president’s announced programme of constitutional reform. They risk allowing him to remain over-powerful for years to come.
By Darvio Morrow * – Newsweek Black Americans are tired of being ignored. That’s what we’re talking about amongst ourselves in conversations across the country. We’re tired of seeing the same people come into our neighborhoods every election cycle, scare us into voting for them…
Radio Free Asia Terms for having illegal walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-19 rules raise her jail time to six years. A military court sentenced deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison Monday for the illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaking…
By Human Rights Watch Global Costs of Unlawful Detention and Interrogation Post-9/11 The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US…
