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The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace

By Thant Myint-U* – Foreign Affairs War, Empire, and the Forgotten Power of the United Nations. The long peace of the past eight decades has rested on two revolutionary convictions: that wars of aggression are intolerable and that empires must end.

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Nato is a dangerous grift America is milking Europe

By Thomas Fazi* – UnHerd Trump has once again sent Europeans scrambling. This time, he has announced the withdrawal of around 5,000 soldiers from Germany as part of a Pentagon decision triggered by the president’s public dispute with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the…

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Raúl Castro’s Indictment Is a Pretext for War

By Nicholas Greven*- Jacobin Washington has spent decades protecting Cuban exile terrorists while criminalizing Cuba’s response to them. The indictment of Raúl Castro is the latest chapter in that story — and a pretext for something much worse.

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In a World at War, the Biggest Loser Is Climate

By Jawad Khalid* – Common Dreams Reinvesting just 15% of global military spending, roughly $387 billion, would be more than enough to cover the annual costs of climate adaptation in developing countries. The money exists.

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The World Tilts into A New Great Power Struggle

By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com  The New Age of Power and Peril. The world’s geopolitical centre of gravity is shifting once again, and the personal diplomacy of US President Donald Trump is increasingly part of the equation. His complex and often controversial…

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War, Arrogance, and the Unraveling of U.S. Power

By Nii Lantey Bortey* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) U.S. unraveling will not be imposed from abroad. It will come from within. The United States is not approaching collapse because it lacks power.