By Nkosana Sithole kaMiya* – Modern Diplomacy Humanitarian catastrophes in African countries such as Sudan and the DRC, by mass displacement, state collapse, ethnic cleansing, and rape as a weapon of war, remain largely invisible on social media. In a world increasingly shaped…
By Pascal Lottaz* – Neutrality Studies Recap Three years into the Ukraine War, the West is stuck in a loop of self-serving delusion and denial What began as a strategic miscalculation has turned into a geopolitical disaster of epic proportions—not for Russia but for the…
By Sara Qudah* – Politico If the bloc truly stands by the values it claims to champion, now is the moment to show it. In Gaza, journalism is not just under siege, it’s deliberately being starved. I don’t use that word lightly.
By Owen Jones*– The Guardian The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away Imagine this: over the weekend, Britain – shocked by the scale of suffering in Gaza – decided to bypass international norms and…
By Jorge Heine* – Article sent to Other News by the author The Munich Security Conference (MSC) held each February at the Bayerischer Hof, Bavaria’s capital grandest hotel, is to international security issues what Davos is to international economic ones—the year’s biggest and…
By Jesse Mackinnon* – Common Dreams The deliberate undermining of democratic norms and the conflation of personal power with national interest are consistent with patterns seen in states that have tipped into authoritarian rule. The United States has entered a phase that…
By Umar Manzoor Shah* – Inter Press Service (IPS) A newly released report by Earth Insight in collaboration with 16 environmental organizations has sounded a global alarm on the unchecked expansion of offshore oil and gas projects into some of the most biologically rich and…
By Mebratu Kelecha* – Africa Is a Country Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny. The global economic balance of power is shifting, and Africa finds itself at a crossroads.
By Afsara Shaheen* – Eurasia Review Violence against women in Afghanistan has intensified under Taliban rule, with numerous reports detailing systemic abuses and gender-based persecution. The Taliban have institutionalized gender-based discrimination through a series of decrees…
By John Feffer* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) What can progressives learn from the victory of the far right in Poland? Beginning in the late 1980s, Eastern Europe shifted from being a political backwater to a political bellwether.
