By Stefan Wolff* – The Conversation The inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s board of peace in Washington on February 19 caps a busy week for US diplomacy – though, not necessarily for the country’s professional diplomats. These people have been largely sidelined in the…
By Alexander Cooley* and Daniel Nexon* – Foreign Affairs Geopolitical Power, Private Gain. Analysts have long struggled to characterize U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
By Refaat Ibrahim* – Pearls and Irritations Killings, arrests, displacement and aid restrictions have continued under the ceasefire. The violence has not ended – it has been reorganised and made less visible.
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Other Words For years, MAGA has attacked minority groups in the name of “protecting women and children.” It turns out the real abusers are wealthy and powerful. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s contentious House hearing about the Justice Department’s handling…
By Alon Ben Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ The horror of the Sudanese civil war is not exhausted by the enumeration of its atrocities, though those alone are staggering: mass killings, ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, the razing of villages, famine used as a weapon, and…
Raja Mohan* – Foreign Affairs And the Unilateral Temptation. From Washington to Beijing and Moscow to New Delhi, a consensus is emerging that the world has entered a multipolar era. Political leaders, diplomats, and analysts routinely declare that unrivaled American dominance…
By Cyrus Hodes* – Geopolitical Monitor The 2026 International AI Safety Report, published last week by over 100 experts from more than 30 countries, reaches a sobering conclusion: the gap between the pace of AI advancement and our ability to implement effective safeguards…
Sachs* – Common Dreams The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded. Distinguished Members of the Security…
By Harald Kujat* and Michael von der Schulenburg* – Article sent to Other News by the authors A call for peace on the 4th anniversary of the war in Ukraine. The world is currently experiencing one of the most profound geopolitical upheavals since the end of the Second World War…
By John Feffer* – TomDispatch And Yet America First Means America Alone. A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens.
