By Matthias Matthijs* and Nathalie Tocci** – Foreign Affairs Trump’s Overreach Has Finally Forged Continental Unity. When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, European countries at first chose appeasement as their preferred U.S. strategy.
By Joshua Scheer – SheerPost Europe’s political class is sleepwalking into a catastrophe of its own design. In a sweeping, blistering conversation with Glenn Diesen, economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs lays out how the continent—once poised to build a “common European home”…
By Eric Ross* – Common Dreams A US invasion would hardly inaugurate a new conflict. It would instead mark the bloodiest phase in a long, bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty.
Takamasa Ishizuka – DEVNET JAPAN Director In December of last year, amid reporting on U.S. national security strategy, attention was drawn to the so-called “CORE FIVE” — or “C5” — concept, attributed to U.S. President Trump.This concept envisions a new forum of great powers —…
By Sana Khan* – Modern Diplomacy Recent meetings between United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have revived debate about whether the world is moving toward a new era dominated by cooperation between its two largest powers. Recent meetings between…
By Patrick Lawrence* – Consortium News Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation. Iranians are Hô Chi Minh’s grasshoppers taking on a colonial elephant. No one can say with certainty, at this writing, how Iran’s…
By Violeta Nuñez Rodríguez* – CounterPunch* Women and Children: Data on the Genocide (number of people or %) Women and girls killed: 38,000 Women killed: 22,000 Girls killed: 16,000 Women and girls killed per day: 47 (approximately) Girls and boys killed: 21,289 Children killed…
Sachs* – South China Morning Post The IMF assumes China should save less. China’s saving is key to financing the developing world’s need for green infrastructure.
By JB Bae* – Responsible Statecraft Budget shortfalls could force the organization to move closer to the communities that it’s meant to serve. The $1.2 billion renovation of the Palais des Nations was intended to reaffirm Geneva’s centrality to the multilateral system.
By Catherine Wilson* – Inter Press Sevice (IPS) Péter Magyar, leader of the pro-democratic centre-right Tisza Party, which recently swept into power on an unstoppable wave of hope for change, has now been sworn into office as Hungary’s new Prime Minister. After a decade and a…
