By Fiona Edwards* – Globetrotter Instead, an independent foreign policy is desperately needed—and gaining support. Recently, the United States has been followed by a number of European countries in supporting a cold war policy toward Russia and China.
By Cheena Kapoor * – Devex New Delhi, India — On a chilly November night last year, Poonam Devi and three other women from her village were surgically sterilized at a health center near their village, Basoli, in India’s Sonbhadra district. A typical…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. Davies* – CODEPINK The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare “nothing to see here,” and cover it as a depoliticized crime story about a…
By Viyah Prashad* – Globetrotter Tokyo now accepts that countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America no longer want to submit to the will of the Western states In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its…
By Hall Gardner* – MEER Toward a global peace initiative Only concerted US, EU, ASEAN and UN multilateral diplomacy will prevent the real possibility of war between the United States and China. In April 2023, Beijing engaged in demonstrations of military force in strong…
By Laura Lambert* and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen* – The Conversation For 40 years, western governments have entertained ideas of outsourcing asylum processing and refugee hosting to the global south. It is not a new idea.
By Joe Lauria* – Consortium News Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington A Washington Post headline last week was a bombshell for someone who has…
By Tharaphi Than* The Conversation Military violence in Myanmar is worsening amid fierce resistance and international ambivalence In the early days of a brutal 2021 military crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar, members of the nascent resistance movement began asking…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The accusations of sexual harassment against Boaventura de Sousa Santos reopen a complex issue. It is obvious and evident that all abuse of power in the academic world, and its derivation in the field of sexual harassment, must be stigmatized…
By John V Walsh* – Asia Times NYT writes premature obit for diplomacy as it thrives in the Middle East Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, stands between Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and Saudi Arabia’s minister of state and national…
