By Chris Fitzgerald* – Asia Times Afghan group flouts ICC arrest warrants for its leaders by citing Western double standards on Israel’s rights abuses The world came together last week to condemn the Taliban’s repressive policies against Afghanistan’s women and girls…
By Hanri Mostert* and Tracy-Lynn Field* – The Conversation A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com A milestone year brings calls for gender parity, regional equity, and bold leadership at the helm of the Un. As the United Nations prepares to celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2025, the milestone presents an opportunity to reflect not only…
By Qassem Qassem* – The Cradle Behind the talk of calm, Tel Aviv is redrawing Gaza’s borders, displacing its population, and laying the groundwork for permanent control, one truce at a time. Twenty-one months into its brutal campaign against the Gaza Strip, Israel is again…
By Margaret MacMillan* – Foreign Affairs History Offers Few Parallels for Washington’s Repudiation of Its Own Alliances. Henry Kissinger once compared himself to the lone cowboy who rode into town to sort out the bad guys.
By Michael Hudson* – Geopolitical Economy Economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order, and how the Global South can challenge the rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism. Industrial capitalism was revolutionary…
By Mick Hall* – Consortium News The U.S. is now expected to pressure other countries not to sign on to the joint action plan announced by the 12 countries in Bogota, Mick Hall reports. Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have…
B y D E V N E T J a p a n advisor Takamasa ISHIZUKA The Transformation of International Order and Challenges to the UN System In today’s international political, economic, and diplomatic arena, America’s “America First” policy and the retreat of its international leadership have…
Southey* and Adam Weinstein* – Responsible Statecraft Jerusalem is bombing Damascus and threatening al-Sharaa’s rule, while Washington was hoping to help the nascent government on its feet. Israeli jets and drones hit Syria’s Defence Ministry compound and a second…
By John Feffer* – Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) Trump thinks of himself as an unstoppable force. But Putin is an unmovable object who won’t be bullied because he is the ultimate bully.
