Alon Ben-Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ The death of Sinwar, the mastermind behind the savage October 7 attack that led to the Gaza war, presents a new challenge to Netanyahu and Hamas. Neither has realized their ultimate objective and now faces a new reality they cannot wish…
Frank Ledwidge* – The Conversation A friend of mine, usually an intensely optimistic pro-Ukraine analyst, returned from Ukraine last week and told me: “It’s like the German Army in January 1945.” The Ukrainians are being driven back on all fronts – including in the Kursk…
By Nick Turse* – CounterPunch* “War is not healthy for children and other living things,” reads a poster titled “Primer” created by the late artist Lorraine Schneider for an art show at New York’s Pratt Institute in 1965. Printed in childlike lowercase letters, the…
By Jeremy Shapiro* and Zsuzsanna Végh* – Eurasia Review* The meaning of Orban “There is a great man, a great leader in Europe — Viktor Orban. … He is the prime minister of Hungary. He is a very great leader, a very strong man.” – Donald Trump, January 2024.
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…
