By Naomi Haupt* – ISS Today* As violence and instability rise, African countries must reaffirm their commitment to protecting children and support DDR initiatives. Roughly 21 000 children have been recruited as soldiers by government forces and armed groups across Africa in the…
By Doug Bandow* – 19FortyFive Key Points and Summary: President-elect Donald Trump has sparked controversy with expansionist aspirations, targeting Panama, Greenland, and even Canada for potential U.S. acquisition. -Trump’s rhetoric highlights concerns over the Panama Canal’s…
By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* – MEER The shrinking scale of power and resistance Scales are conventions about proportionalities and the relationships between them. The idea of human scale is ancient and present in all cultures.
By David Shulman* – The New York Review A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel’s collective conscience. This winter in Israel-Palestine is a dark one, and not because the days are shorter.
By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy in Focus Laura Carlsen discusses how Claudia Sheinbaum will navigate a series of domestic challenges and a changing U.S.-Mexico relationship. In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez…
Becker* – The Hill Say what you will about incoming President Trump, but some bothersome facts are self-evident. He is an old man stuck in old thinking at a time when the world is changing with unprecedented speed. Many changes won’t wait another four years until voters have…
By Shaher Al Shaher* – Modern Diplomacy What happened in Syria cannot be summarized as the fall of the ruling regime and the rise of another, due to Syria’s importance in the balance of power within regional and international politics. Syria’s importance lies in the fact that…
By Jonathan Ofir* – Mondoweiss The shame of Israel’s genocide in Gaza will haunt the international moral conscience and the Israeli psyche for the coming century. Though Israelis, accustomed to the perpetual shaming of Germany, are unprepared for the shame they must now…
By Medea Benjamin* – Nicolas J. Davies* – CounterPunch With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term.
Davies* – Common Dreams It is up to the U.n. and other governments around the world to intervene, and to hold Israel and the United States accountable for their actions. The United States, Turkey, and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by…
