By Elizabeth Economy* – Foreign Affairs When the Chinese cargo ship Istanbul Bridge docked at the British port of Felixstowe on October 13, 2025, the arrival might have appeared unremarkable. The United Kingdom is China’s third-largest export market, and boats travel between the…
By Jorge Heine* – Responsible Statecraft The president’s new hemispheric strategy revives interventionist logic while ignoring the region’s urgent need for infrastructure and economic diversification. The “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, “a common-sense and potent…
By Asoka Bandarage* – Inter Press Service (IPS) Tropical Cyclone Ditwah, which made landfall in Sri Lanka on 28 November 2025, is considered the country’s worst natural disaster since the deadly 2004 tsunami. It intensified the northeast monsoon, bringing torrential rainfall…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J.S. Davies* – Common Dreams If he really wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, not a warmonger, Trump had better make the necessary personnel changes to his inner circle before it is too late.
Analysis – The Cradle As international eyes stay locked on Gaza, Tel Aviv is executing its most aggressive campaign of ethnic cleansing and land theft in the occupied West Bank since 1948. On the morning of 7 October 2023, while the world braced for the fallout of Operation…
By Leon Hadar* – Global Zetgeist Substack Trump’s National Security Strategy and the Unraveling of the Post-Cold War Order. The Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy represents something far more consequential than another episodic shift in American…
By John Perry* – Common Dreams While Washington’s aversion to foreign interference in its domestic elections verges on paranoia, the gross hypocrisy that runs through its foreign policy leaves it free of any compunction when meddling in other countries’ elections. An…
Miller* – Foreign Affairs A New Paradigm for American Policy. The bond between the United States and Israel has remained extraordinarily close for three decades.
Napolitano* – Consortium News By ordering the annihilation of people in speedboats in the Caribbean, Trump and Hegseth have assumed powers that numerous laws forbid. When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon…
By Juan Cole* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF)* Once you’ve crashed this planet, unlike a computer, you won’t be able to reboot it. In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds.
