By Polly Toynbee* – IPS Journal (International Politics and Society)* The long decline of social democracy began with the ‘Third Way’. Since then, it has been searching for a new direction. Adull ache permeates Europe’s social democrats as they look back to former glory days…
By Ted Snider* – Responsible Statecraft Between the public, his own intel agencies, and international partners, the admin has a lot more convincing to do. Donald Trump reportedly had a surprise phone conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last week.
By Bitania Tadesse* and David Mulet* – IPI Global Observatory (International Peace Institute) In February 2025, African heads of state gathered in Addis Ababa to announce a bold challenge to the global financial order: the continent will launch its own credit rating agency. The…
By Patrick Bond* – ZNetwork The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg…
By Vijay Prashad* – Peoples Dispatch Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics. The far right in Latin America is angry.
By Joe Lauria* – Special to Consortium News* A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power. In his momentous speech…
By Nesrine Malik* – The Guadian Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region. It is clear now that the ceasefire in Gaza is only a “reducefire”. The onslaught continues.
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com A Shock That Had Been Building for Months. Six months ago, a meeting in Washington set the stage for the geopolitical rupture now unfolding. In one of the year’s most contentious diplomatic encounters, U.S.
Harris* – John Perry* – CounterPunch It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela.
By Ivan Krastev* – Foreign Affairs How America’s Weaponization of Ideology Could Backfire. In the ten months since U.S.
