Sachs* – Common Dreams Now is the time for talks that will bring us closer to peace and away from a deadly and destructive war with no end in sight. There has been a complete collapse of diplomacy between the US and Russia, and a near-total collapse between the US and China.
Wittner*- Los Angeles Progressive Although the seemingly innocent slogan goes back deep in American history, it began to develop a racist, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic tone after World War I. People’s choice of words can be revealing. That’s certainly the case with respect to…
Bernie Sanders*- Foreign Affairs Replacing Greed, Militarism, and Hypocrisy with Solidarity, Diplomacy, and Human Rights Asad fact about the politics of Washington is that some of the most important issues facing the United States and the world are rarely debated in a serious…
By Samuel Zumah – Modern Diplomacy The rise of China has not only been seen as a comprehensive challenge to the U.S. hegemony, but also Beijing’s increasing alignment with the Global South is rapidly regarded as the potential peer to G-7. Over the past decade, the rise of China…
By Chris Hedges*- ScheerPost Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because the working class is…
Michael von der Schulenburg(*), Hans-Joachim Funke The deteriorating military situation in Ukraine and the United States increasing withdrawal from this war created a situation in which the EU is now pushed into the forefront in dealing with this problem. Probably for the first…
By Stephan Richter* – The Globalist Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, and Emmanuel Macron, the French President, are once again in the global spotlight. Why do they lock horns so fiercely?
By NICHOLAS VINOCUR, HANNAH ROBERTS E JACOPO BARIGAZZI – POLITICO The Italian prime minister is courting Trump and preparing to tilt European policy her way. When Giorgia Meloni first rose to power in Italy in 2022, Western elites harbored doubts about a prime minister who’d…
by Carrie Lynn Hawthorne* – Common Thread/The Nation Nearly every day of the year, some part of humanity is facing an untameable wildfire, or extreme heat, or deep drought, or torrential flooding. This inescapable fact, and the accelerating logic of climate change, mean that for…
By Eyal Press* – The New Yorker Kenneth Stern helped write a definition now endorsed by more than forty countries. Why does he believe it’s causing harm?
