By Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh* – Asia Times Trump’s G-2 comment signaled end of America’s long unipolar moment and beginning of a highly uncertain new bipolar era. When Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong told the Financial Times last week that “the old rules no longer apply…
By Eric Blanc* – Jacobin A democratic socialist wasn’t supposed to be able to win a major office like New York City mayor over the objections of billionaires. Yet Zohran Mamdani and the movement behind him built a campaign far stronger than the oligarchs and their unlimited…
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it…
Pillar* – Responsible Statecraft Look closely, Israel is getting everything it wants while resuming deadly air strikes at will. Moreover, it is likely building up for a permanent occupation of the Strip.
By Nick Corbishley* – Naked Capitalism “There will be no advances in negotiations with the United States if Marco Rubio is part of the team.” Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. US-Brazil relations are apparently back on track, at least until President Trump’s next tariff tantrum.
By Leon Hadar* – Global Zetgeist Substack Rebalancing Power in a Multipolar world. For decades, Western policymakers and analysts operated under the comfortable assumption that the international order would remain fundamentally unipolar, with the United States and its allies…
Downes* and Lindsey A. O’Rourke* – Foreign Affairs If past is prologue, a U.S. attempt to overthrow Maduro would not end well.
By Marc Lynch* – Foreign Affairs Israel Cannot Destroy Its Way to Peace The regional order of the Middle East is rapidly evolving, but not in the way many Israeli and U.S. officials assume it is. President Donald Trump’s push to end the war in Gaza delivered the release of all…
By Adriana Marin* – The Conversation A massive anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro left 132 people dead in the early hours of October 28 as Brazil’s security forces confronted one of the country’s biggest crime gangs. It was one of the deadliest security operations in modern…
By Leon Hadar* – Asia Times* Trump’s approach to nuclear arms policy consistently and dangerously prioritizes dramatic gestures over considered strategy. President Trump’s announcement that the United States will resume nuclear weapons testing after a 33-year moratorium…
