By Nora Sandoval* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) The Noboa government is crushing dissent and rolling back environmental victories. Ecuador has inspired the world. It was the first country to enshrine the rights of Nature in the constitution as a response to ecological…
By Connor Echols* – Responsible Statecraft It’s an old strategy: Israel’s hardliners benefit from sowing internal violence, chaos and Palestinian division. Frightening images have emerged from Gaza in the week since a fragile ceasefire took hold…
By Sam Vigersky* – Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) As prospects for U.S. intervention in Venezuela grow, an already dire humanitarian landscape risks unraveling further, raising urgent questions about whether the military options reportedly under review at the…
By Melvin Goodman* – CounterPunch The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength that makes us free, is lessened. – Senator Frank Church, 1976 The CIA has…
By Alon Ben Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ It is hard to imagine that there is not a single adult in Trump’s orbit to tell him that withdrawing from the many UN agencies that provide critical humanitarian services undermine rather than advance the US’s national interest…
By Adam Ratzlaff* and Jeffery A. Tobin* – Responsible Statecraft While the Trump administration is bombing, cutting aid and imposing tariffs, Beijing has been quietly forging trade ties all over the region. China was recently admitted as an observer to the Andean…
Hamelink* – Article sent to Other News by the author Whatever one may think about the US president it would seem that most people could agree on the classification of Donald Trump in the category of “bullies”. Bullies are the figures who from classrooms to family…
By Thomas Palley* – CounterPunch Argentina is back in the news with renewed financial turmoil spurred by President Milei’s poor political standing. That poor standing is the product of anger with Argentina’s dire economic performance and massive corruption within Milei’s…
By Simon Speakman Cordall* – Al Jazeera Analysts express concern over the rehabilitation of Israel, even as it says it has done no wrong. In both Israel and among its Western allies, the Gaza ceasefire deal is seen as an opportunity – to move on from the…
By Nicholas Oakes* – Modern Diplomacy Madagascar has become the latest flashpoint in a growing wave of youth-driven revolts sweeping across continents. Madagascar has become the latest flashpoint in a growing wave of youth-driven revolts sweeping across continents…
