By Jonathan Cook* – Consortium News Israel has created a false death toll debate that relates only to those who were killed directly by its bombs and gunfire — not the genocide it is waging by other means. The biggest con trick Israel has managed to pull off over the past two…
By Marcus Schneider* – IPS Journal (International Politics and Society) Ultimately, Europe faces the choice between complete submission to Washington’s dictates or a leap forward into true geopolitical independence. The US National Security Strategy, published at the end of last…
By Pablo Meriguet* – Peoples Dispatch José Antonio Kast, who has promised historic tax cuts and a tougher immigration policy, will be Chile’s next president. Center-left candidate Jeanette Jara has conceded defeat.
By Nick Licata* – CounterPunch At the end of November 2025, President Donald Trump permanently paused migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’” Then he followed up by halting all asylum claims, pausing visa issuances for Afghan nationals, and in December…
By Peiman Salehi* – Middle East Monitor (MEMO) For decades the West has presented itself as the global guardian of free expression. Freedom of speech has not only been framed as a moral value but as a functional pillar of democratic stability and political legitimacy. Yet as…
Sachs* – Common Dreams The president’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States. The 2025…
By Rameen Siddiqui* – Modern Diplomacy A Kast victory would install Chile’s most conservative leader since the Pinochet dictatorship, reshaping its post-dictatorship political identity. Chile is set to elect far-right candidate José Antonio Kast as its next president, marking…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com Our Everyday Essentials. Human Rights Day has arrived with a strange, almost jarring double exposure.
By Elizabeth Economy* – Foreign Affairs When the Chinese cargo ship Istanbul Bridge docked at the British port of Felixstowe on October 13, 2025, the arrival might have appeared unremarkable. The United Kingdom is China’s third-largest export market, and boats travel between the…
By Jorge Heine* – Responsible Statecraft The president’s new hemispheric strategy revives interventionist logic while ignoring the region’s urgent need for infrastructure and economic diversification. The “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, “a common-sense and potent…
