By Hall Gardner* – MEER Undoing 40 years of U.S. Neo-Containment policy and building global diplomacy for sustainable peace If Trump is to achieve a sustainable Ukraine-Russia peace leading to global peace, he will need to undo, step by step, 40 years of US neo-containment…
By Martin Kettle* – The Guardian The president’s appalling threat to seize Gaza and drive out its people imperils global stability, even if he never deploys a single US soldier The comments were brazen, swaggering, jaw-dropping, audacious, and, to many, simply outrageous…
By Adan Mirza* – Modern Diplomacy The Sudanese civil conflict continues to cause a relentless humanitarian crisis, which has only partially emerged into the limelight with minimal international coverage. The United Nations reports that over one million Sudanese nationals…
By Abba Solomon* – Common Dreams A new book by Peter Beinart analyses how the maudlin story we Jews tell ourselves of our virtue and heroic endurance inoculates Jews from seeing Israel’s agency in creating the resistance it faces. The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story…
By Waleed Shahid* – https://waleedshahid.substack.com/ Not with tanks in the streets or militias at government buildings, but with spreadsheets, executive orders, and a network of loyalists embedded in the federal bureaucracy. In just the past few days, Musk’s hand-picked agents…
By Leonie Fleischmann* – The Conversation Days after taking office, as he issued executive order after executive order to change the political face of America, Donald Trump also turned his attention to the war in Gaza. His proposal that Gaza should be cleared out and…
By Radio Free Asia (RFA) With hundreds of millions of dollars paused, healthcare, food and education programs are already feeling a pinch On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia…
Ferguson* and Jr., and Maximilian F. Hippold* – Foreign Affairs Turning Inward Won’t Secure America’s Interests After years of promoting globalization and free trade agreements, in the past decade, U.S. policymakers have coalesced around an economic agenda that emphasizes…
By Frederic Mousseau* – Inter press Service (IPS) On January 28, addressing the UN Security Council from Goma, Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), provided a detailed briefing, highlighting the dire humanitarian situation and…
By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* – MEER The global and domestic impact of Trump’s defensive exceptionalism Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in office. This frenzy had been announced for a long time.
