The Improbable Statesman: Al-Sharaa’s White House Gambit and the Future of Syria’s Sovereignty

By Kristian Laubjerg* – Meer After more than forty-five years of peaceful coexistence with the Warsaw Pact countries, NATO created a new image of itself with the collapse of the USSR as a war hawk bent on fighting for the global dominance of the USA. When all think alike, then…

By Jorge Heine* – Responsible Statecraft Washington’s bullying has deepened divisions and crippled the hemisphere’s premier diplomatic forum. The government of the Dominican Republic has announced that the X Summit of the Americas (SOA), scheduled to be held in Punta Cana on…

By Pavan Kulkarni* – Peoples Dispatch “We know the heart and intent of Trump is to help us fight insecurity,” states the spokesperson of Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, who has time and again demonstrated his loyalty to the West. US President Donald Trump has threatened to go…

By Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva* – The Guardian This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith. Today, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30).

By Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh* – Asia Times Trump’s G-2 comment signaled end of America’s long unipolar moment and beginning of a highly uncertain new bipolar era. When Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong told the Financial Times last week that “the old rules no longer apply…

By Eric Blanc* – Jacobin A democratic socialist wasn’t supposed to be able to win a major office like New York City mayor over the objections of billionaires. Yet Zohran Mamdani and the movement behind him built a campaign far stronger than the oligarchs and their unlimited…