By Hussein Kalout* – Foreign Affairs How U.S. Policy Is Playing Into China’s Hands—and Remaking Latin America. In April, when Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on dozens of countries, Brazil emerged largely unscathed. Brazilian exports to the United States…
By Nick Turse* – The Intercept The U.S. military carried out an attack on a “drug vessel” in the Caribbean. It could mark the first shots of a new war. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies* – CounterPunch One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months.
By Nigel Green* – Asia Times SCO Summit shows world now clearly moving beyond a US-centered order toward multiple centers of economic power. The meeting in Tianjin between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, their first in seven years…
By Ottilia Anna Maunganidze* and Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo* – Institute for Security Studies (ISS) From Sudan to the DRC and Mozambique, armed groups prey on internally displaced people to instil fear and consolidate power. On the second anniversary of Sudan’s civil war in mid-April…
By Jeffrey Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Article sent to Other News by the authors Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes. Israel, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population as well as direct mass murders and…
Analysis – The Cradle The US naval buildup off Venezuela’s coast is not about drug interdiction, but imperial pressure. Caracas’s response, grounded in asymmetric defense and bolstered by key Eurasian alliances, has transformed a lopsided showdown into a contest of global powers.
By Antonia Zimmermann* – Politico Donald Trump is using America’s military and technological superiority to force one-sided deals on Europe. After its defeat by the British in the First Opium War, the Qing dynasty signed a treaty in 1842 that condemned China to more than…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com A continent reclaims its size — and its future. For centuries, the world has looked at Africa through the wrong lens—sometimes literally.
Sachs* – Horizons Magazine The European Union needs a new foreign policy based on Europe’s true economic and security interests. Europe is currently in an economic and security trap of its own making, characterized by its dangerous hostility with Russia, mutual distrust with…
