What to Know About Iran’s Protests—and Trump’s Threat of U.S. Intervention

By Nick Corbishley* – Naked Capitalism Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything, from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European— or later United States— capital, and as such has accumulated in distant centers of power.

Sachs* – Common Dreams The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over its affairs.  Mr. President,Distinguished Members of the…

By Athanasios G. Platias* – Modern Diplomacy Washington is reviving the Monroe Doctrine not as a historical artifact but as a strategic choice.

By Ibrahim Quraishi* – CounterPunch What the United States is signaling in Venezuela is not merely a dispute over one government, one election, or one leader. It is a warning to the world that international law—already fragile, already selectively enforced—has now been openly…

By Pavel Devyatkin* – Responsible Statecraft The Venezuela ‘take over’ is causing anxiety, but Trump should know that alienating Copenhagen would actually undermine US security. The Trump administration dramatically escalated its campaign to control Greenland in 2025.

Sachs* – Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) / Horizons Magazine Winter 2026 (forthcoming) Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly…