By Byhengyu Wang* – Modern Diplomacy “Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.” — The Death’s End by Cixin Liu Whenever I reflect on Europe’s development challenges and the state of Sino-European relations, I can’t help but think of…
By David Goessmann* – Common Dreams The great war may be coming to an end, but the violence of occupation, apartheid, and territorial expansion is not. With the silence of the guns, hope grows that Israel’s genocide in Gaza may have come to an end…
Ruehl* – Independent Media Institute A mix of parliamentary, presidential, and semi-presidential systems defines the world’s democracies today. Growing concerns over democratic decline raise questions about which models adapt best. Sri Lanka’s 2024 elections have…
By Joseph Bouchard* – Common Dreams The opposition’s proposed total economic surrender to US corporate interests would doom Venezuela to the same conditions that led to Chavez’s rise to power. The United Nations General Assembly, held in late September, offered a stark panorama…
By Martina Moneke* – LA Progressive Decolonizing our worldview requires decolonizing our language—terms like ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ obscure complexity and uphold colonial hierarchies. The term “Global South” gained popularity in the 1990s as a neutral alternative to…
By Peter Rodgers – Geopolitical Monitor Foreign policy runs on narratives, institutions, and power. What is unusual about the current moment is how visibly a single leader’s governing style has bent those three at once.
By Curro Jimenez – Naked Capitalism Europe is not a state, and that is a problem — mainly an economic problem. The strength of the euro is compromised by this.
Davies* – Informed Comment As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal…
By John Feffer* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Trump needs an enemy to justify his power grabs, and Venezuela fits the bill. Every autocrat needs an enemy who threatens the country—preferably from both sides of the border.
Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams A revised version of the Trump plan for an end of the war in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank. This is the moment for honesty, global resolve, and moral clarity.
