By Keith Johnson* – Foreign Policy How an ad hoc gaggle of countries turned themselves into global revolutionaries and why it might yet matter for the West. One of the more remarkable developments over the last 25 years is that an investment banker’s arbitrary acronym for…
By David Scott Mathieson*- Asia Times EU, US and UN all hiding behind ASEAN’s stillborn and ineffectual Five Point Consensus while Myanmar rages and burns When Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders met earlier this month in Vientiane, Laos, the dramatically…
The Arab Weekly Sudan’s war has also created one of the worst education crises in the world, with more than 90 percent of the country’s 19 million school-age children unable to access formal education. While the world’s attention is fixated on conflicts in the Middle East and…
By Stephen Bryen* – Asia Times* We don’t know whether the leak was a law violation or an intentional act from within the Biden administration “Middle East Spectator,” is a pro-regime Telegram outlet based in Tehran, as all media channels based in Tehran are – by law. Last week…
By Jan Mortier* The ancient Indian texts, the Vedas tell us that we are living through the age of the Kali Yuga, an age of deceit, quarrel, irrreligiosity and conflict, where the rich are revered as the purveyors of truth, no matter how immoral they may be and those who tell the…
By John Feffer* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) North Korea no longer talks about reunification, and South Korea is back to talking absorption. The dream of Korean reunification is now over 80 years old. This year, the notion that the two halves of the Korean peninsula could be…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies* – Dissident Voice* Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to the promised land of an ever-expanding Greater Israel.
By Dieter Egli * To find peace and to protect its own interests, Europe must integrate an Eastern perspective. This fall began with two extraordinary coincidences: Türkiye applied to join the BRICS(1) and lightning struck(2) the iconic Arch of Constantine in Rome…
Steinberg* – Foreign Affairs How to Avert Catastrophe at the World’s Most Dangerous Flash Point By almost universal agreement, the Taiwan Strait has emerged as the most combustible flash point in the world. In recent years, China has dramatically increased the scale and…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – MEER Recent times have given plenty of reason for pessimism. There have been many strong threats to three sources of stability and civility in social relations: democracy, peace and the minimum guarantee of ecological sustainability.
