By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J.S. Davies* – Common Dreams In most hot spots around the world, Rubio is likely to make conflicts even hotter, or start new ones.
By Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by…
By Leslie Vinjamuri* and Max Yoeli* – Foreign Affairs In an Age of Great-Power Competition, Washington Needs the G-20 The United States is failing in the global South. Its popularity and influence have waned, and policies that recent U.S. administrations have designed to…
By Thalif Deen* – Inter Press Service (IPS) UNITED NATIONS – US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20 next year may be another calamity for the United Nations—particularly if the second term turns out to be a re-run of his first presidency (2017-2021)…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – ZNetwork* Trump’s victory is a desperate and historically understandable gesture by US society to halt the decline of the imperial prosperity it experienced throughout the 20th century and, above all, after the Second World War. It is a desperate…
Robert Hunziker* – CounterPunch There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, over the past year or so, spells “thumbs down” for planet Earth. It’s a disheartening, and fraught with danger, change in…
By Oritro Karim – Inter Press Service (IPS) After 19 months of conflict, the ongoing Sudanese Civil War continues to deteriorate living conditions for millions of Sudanese people. Intensive conflicts between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have…
By Mira Oklobdzija* – Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) The far right is fanning the flames of conflict. In early November, according to many news reports, a group of anti-Semitic boys with a “North African appearance” brutally attacked Israeli citizens who came to Amsterdam…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. Davies* – Common Dreams The team that Trump has assembled seems to offer some hope for an end to fighting in Ukraine, but little to none for peace in the Middle East and a rising danger of a U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. When Donald Trump…
By Patricia Justino* Laura Saavedra-Lux* Samira Diebire* – The Conversation The years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. The war in Ukraine and the escalating violence in the Middle East have dominated global…
