By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute In November 2020, the Moroccan government sent its military to the Guerguerat area, a buffer zone between the territory claimed by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic…
By Hall Gardner* – Wall Street International Magazine Is the world entering into a new Cold War? It is even more dangerous I will argue today1 that Homo Geopoliticus has entered a new period of global rivalry more like the periods before World War I and II than…
By Eleanor Davey* – Boston Review Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels. Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic’s visa woes in Australia have captured…
By Lauren Gambino* – The Guardian Puzzle of Biden’s unpopularity has some pieces within his control and some not, experts say, as Covid casts a shadow over his first year in office Joe Biden ends his first year in office at a particularly bleak moment for a US president who…
By Alejandro Kirk* The myth that in Chile the military is basically disciplined, professional, non-deliberative and respectful of the democratic decisions of the people seems to be floating again in the country, in relation to the tasks of the Constitutional Convention convened…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The difficult challenges facing today’s world – the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating Cold War, the risk of a nuclear conflict, the increase in human rights violations and the exponential rise in the number of refugees and…
By David Sogge* – Open Democracy The far-Right leader’s status as an international pariah masks some important points of continuity He may be welcome in Gulf sheikdoms, where religious faith and the sale of Brazilian military products, foodstuffs and even football clubs…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* There is a clear discomfort among international activists and commentators who follow the United Nations, as well as among former UN senior officials and special rapporteurs, with the organization’s growing irrelevance as the world is faced…
By Felix Light – The Moscow Times As a week of high-profile talks between Russia and the West ended in failure to resolve soaring tensions over Ukraine and NATO expansion, experts told The Moscow Times that stalemate had always been the probable outcome. “The result…
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton – National Security Archive Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner. Slavic Studies Panel…
