By Amr Wagdy Omran* – Modern Diplomacy After more than three decades of American efforts to establish and consolidate a unipolar international order, we are witnessing signs of the deterioration of the American-centric international order and the formation of a new international…
By Massimo Nava – Editorialist, Il Corriere della Sera Putin’s condemnation of the war, with its trail of crimes and endless suffering inflicted on the civilian population, has no extenuating circumstances on a moral level and in relation to international law, which does not…
By Amy Goodman (*) – Democracy Now! Anti-government protests in Iran, first sparked last month by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, have moved into their fourth week.
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS, Oct 14 2022 (IPS) – The update on September 26, 2022, of the human rights situation in Myanmar to the UN Human Rights Council says it all: “The people of Myanmar have been caught in a rapid downward spiral, with growing suffering, fear, and insecurity…
By Branko Marcetic* – Jacobin A series of Saudi snubs against Joe Biden — including its latest move to cut world oil production — could finally accomplish what has been stubbornly hard up to now: ending the US backing of the Saudis’ brutal war against Yemen. If you’re going to…
ACLI – Trentino* Dialogue with Roberto Savio and Giuliano Rizzi To the energy dilemma assaulting families and businesses are added the dramatic unknowns of this period with the return of topicality of the war, the devastating repercussions of the pandemic and now of the…
Klare* -TomDispatch Mounting Tensions Over Taiwan Thanks to Vladimir Putin’s recent implicit threat to employ nuclear weapons if the U.S. and its NATO allies continue to arm Ukraine — “This is not a bluff,” he insisted on September 21st — the perils in the Russo-Ukrainian…
By John Ross* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute An inflationary tsunami is passing through the world economy, creating economic disorder—in some cases acute political crisis—in every country it touches. This is gathering momentum as the U.S., which is leading other…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK On March 11, 2022, President Biden reassured the American public and the world that the United States and its NATO allies were not at war with Russia. “We will not fight a war with Russia in Ukraine,” said Biden. “Direct…
By Matthew Karnitschnig – POLITICO While paying lip service to European solidarity, the chancellor blazes his own trail for his country BERLIN — As twilight envelopes the German capital, Olaf Scholz stands on the balcony of his chancellery, peering into the distance past a…
