By Mohamad Elmasry* – Middle East Eye The strike on Doha shows that Arab regimes’ silence and passivity in the face of Israeli violence will only invite further aggression. If any state should have felt safe from an Israeli attack, it would have been Qatar. It is…
By Ravi Kant* – Asia Times Geopolitics is all about leverage, leverage and leverage In the great geopolitical arena, power is never declared outright. It is performed, signaled, masked and maneuvered. Like the master tacticians, nations do not simply react to threats…
By Alon ben Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ The genocidal war in Gaza should put the whole world on notice that this is now simply another episode in the moral collapse of our humanity, as “never again” has lost its moral weight. Since he rose to power 30 years ago, Netanyahu…
Editorial / Analysis – The Guardian The strike on a speedboat allegedly containing Venezuelan drug traffickers may be performative, but sets a frightening precedent. More than five decades ago, Richard Nixon launched a “war on drugs”.
Stokes* – Article sent to Other News by the author Introduction The Tianjin Declaration is less a diplomatic communiqué than a symptom of breakdown—an attempt by Eurasian powers to stabilise a world where every intervention spawns new contradictions. The 25th Council of Heads of…
By Joshua Frank* – TomDispatch The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill. A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people.
By John Feffer* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF)* Forget about coups and martial law. The latest method of destroying democracy is through death by a thousand cuts.
By Ash Narain Roy* – Modern Diplomacy Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University says that “the US currently doesn’t have a functioning constitutional system.” It is not just a “soft dictatorship” but a one-person rule. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University says that “the US currently…
By Hussein Kalout* – Foreign Affairs How U.S. Policy Is Playing Into China’s Hands—and Remaking Latin America. In April, when Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on dozens of countries, Brazil emerged largely unscathed. Brazilian exports to the United States…
By Nick Turse* – The Intercept The U.S. military carried out an attack on a “drug vessel” in the Caribbean. It could mark the first shots of a new war. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying…
