By Rafael Behr* – The Guardian The US risks being superseded by China as the prime global power within decades. For Washington, the idea is appalling Joe Biden crosses the Atlantic this week on a tide of goodwill. After four… Continue Reading
By Journalists from The Guardian* Dozens of grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country’s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russia and the European Union held a conference last week, during which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a speech: “The situation remains rather alarming. Our common European continent is experiencing an unprecedented… Continue Reading
Editorial The rise to prominence of the Brothers of Italy party and its abrasive leader, Giorgia Meloni, is a disturbing development By the turbulent standards of Italian politics, it has been a relatively stable spring. The country’s new technocrat prime… Continue Reading
By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar… Continue Reading
By Sebastian Strangio* – The Diplomat Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. will “continue to promote accountability for those responsible for the coup.” The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have all imposed additional sanctions on Myanmar’s… Continue Reading
By Julie M Norman* – The Conversation The deadly escalation of violence across Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured, has demonstrated how the core fault-lines of the conflict… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian Disillusionment among French progressives could open the door to a Marine Le Pen presidency It was less than 10 years ago that France last elected a Socialist party president, but it now seems like another age.… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies (*) President Biden announced a removal of all U.S. troops by September 11, but he failed to include some important details An Afghan taxi-driver in Vancouver told one of us a decade ago… Continue Reading
By Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch* By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason’s simple enough. No matter what mayhem I describe, with so much all-American weaponry in this world of ours, there’s… Continue Reading
By James A. Paul* NEW YORK, Apr 12 2021 (IPS) – Commentators talk about a “new Cold War” between the United States and China. They sometimes conclude that the geopolitical rivalry between these two major powers has ruined the effectiveness… Continue Reading
By !!444!!! Insight Hungary* Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will host his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, and former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini in Budapest Thursday to discuss a potential right-wing alliance on the European level, Orbán’s press secretary confirmed Tuesday. Orbán… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – Common Dreams On March 18, the world was treated to the spectacle of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sternly lecturing senior Chinese officials about the need for China to respect a… Continue Reading
By Thomas L. Friedman * – The New York Times We’ve stopped following our formula for success. Sometimes a comedian cuts through foreign policy issues better than any diplomat. Bill Maher did that the other week with an epic rant on U.S.-China… Continue Reading
By Graham E. Fuller – Responsible Statecraft (*) The U.S. leadership must have set some kind of new record in managing to personally insult the leadership of the two other great powers of the world within 48 hours of each other… Continue Reading
By David E. Sanger* – The New York Times It may look like the bad old days of the Cold War, but today’s bitter superpower competition is about technology, cyberconflict and influence operations. WASHINGTON — Sixty days into his administration,… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures One of the hardest problems of foreign policy is developing an accurate evaluation of a potential adversary’s intentions and capabilities, which are frequently separate realities. I discussed this recently in a piece that pointed out the… Continue Reading
By staff writers Nikkei Asia, Japan Martial law expanded to wider region of Yangon BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has extended martial law to broader sections of Yangon after the deaths of dozens of protesters in the city’s garment production hub,… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian The Sussexes show monarchy cannot be relatable while its politics are hidden but its members are conspicuously part of a grouse-shooting, landowning caste Of royalty, Walter Bagehot wrote in The English Constitution, “we must not let… Continue Reading
Mikhail Gorbachev’s dreams, hopes and difficulties revealed by Andrey Grachev in an interview on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the last President of the Soviet Union. By Cecilia Capanna Mikhail Gorbachev is undoubtedly the most important positive historical… Continue Reading
