Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. It encourages change, for ill or otherwise. The stance taken, righteously pitiful,…
It is ironical that the global powers are celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, while unleashing new wars in Gaza, Ukraine and the Indo-Pak…
They seemed made for each other. A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from the truth, and the various leaders of the Gulf States,…
There’s a peculiar kind of irony that history seems to favor—where former reality TV stars turned presidents, banished by democratic verdicts and haunted by indictments, find redemption not in courts…
In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands…
All pretty much that Trump centrally cares about is can my boys have a cheap and immediate thrill from hunting it, and who can make money off of it and be…
For the tenth consecutive week the “Fork Off Coalition” of united fired federal workers held their “Job Fair” by visiting Senators’ offices on May 13 calling on representatives to do…
The core ethos of Humanity in Kindness and Truth but racism, bigotry and lying are as American as apple pie. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate.…
LONDON – The White House announced on Sunday that the United States and China will temporarily suspend or lift the import tariffs they imposed on each other in April, pending further negotiations on a…
PRINCETON/PROVIDENCE – For centuries, papal elections were also diplomatic wrangles, with the great city-states of Italy (Milan, Florence, and Naples) and then the great powers of Europe (Spain, France, and…
The slogan of MAGA (Make America Great Again) has played a very important role in the political discourse of the USA during the last decade or so. Although it has…
The destiny of warfare depends very much on actors’ relative capabilities. By definition, different capabilities are the means of the actor in international relations (IR) to achieve certain goals. Some…
Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off. Their stench and pull follows, even as you look the other way. One occasion is most prominent in this regard. Nostrils get…
From Samori Touré to Thomas Sankara [left], our ancestors chose resistance. Now, we must choose: either we fight for sovereignty, or we remain slaves to neo-colonialism. — captain Ibrahim Traoré…
The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony,…
We love Western-style parliamentary democracy for its personal rights and freedoms and peaceful change of government. Western democracy ideally means one-person-one-vote and a properly informed electorate. However children, who are…
"The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal."This haunting quote underscores a truth as old as civilization itself: the impermanence of power. It resonates…
“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ was…
MEXICO CITY – Latin America has not figured prominently in US President Donald Trump’s foreign and trade policies during his first 100 days in office, despite the appointment of a…
A protest in support of the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was detained by ICE agents on March 12 of this year took place at the Embassy of El…
Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 will recognise its depiction of a fragmented world, where major economies operate as isolated, fortress-like islands, grouped into three geopolitical superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and…
Ever since Trump’s electoral victory in November 2024 I have been receiving multiple daily solicitations for funds to support the Democratic Party, individual Democratic candidates for Congress or State Offices,…
Our world in the year 2025 remains a divided world. Capitalism and its main legitimising ideology of neoliberalism have assured that we continue to live in an unequal world. All…
When you study history, you realize how much has gone wrong with the world, so much so that the glass has often been almost full to the brim. When you…
The conservative Federalist Society held its Thirteenth Executive Branch Review Conference EBRXIII here in Washington on May 7 at the venerable Mayflower Hotel where activists from Our Revolution, a progressive…
OrientationInternational political economy at a crossroads As most of you know the world economy is peppered with fault lines. On one hand we have the rising in the East of…
NEW YORK – The harassment, detention, torture, and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War,…
Geneva – The ongoing freeze by the United Kingdom and European Union countries on 10s of thousands of Syrian asylum applications is deeply concerning. The freeze, carried out without individual assessments,…
Sounding the alarm for how public safety would be compromised by President Trump’s proposed budget cuts for 2025, the ACLU is sponsoring a series of events this week titled “Safety…
If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive…
It’s a charming British summer for corporations, following the long-awaited UK-India trade deal signed after three years of negotiation. The Labour Party–led British government has hailed the agreement as “the…
Ukraine is among those countries that have suffered extremely high losses in recent wars. In fact no other country, including Sudan, has suffered such heavy loss of life as Ukraine…
WASHINGTON, DC – In recent months, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from United States government websites. An informal army of “data rescuers” has emerged to download,…
The election of a new Pope always sets in motion a series of ancient traditions and high-stakes political manoeuvres within the Catholic Church. Two-thirds of the 135 cardinals now readying to…
This week’s “Dance Against DOGE” and “Tesla Takedown” protest at the company’s showroom here featured crowd-pleasing music and a symphony of car horns responding to “Honk if you hate Musk”…
War is an easily available strategic tool used by both ruling and non-ruling elites to subjugate the masses—not only by inciting them to kill one another indiscriminately, but also by…
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is one of the most important features of the post-Cold War global politics and international relations (IR) regarding the relations between war and politics, which…
Dr. R.N. Haass spewed a few of his thoughts, hoping these would be heard. Not necessarily me were I to take my scalpel and surgery his self-devouring exposition. Btw. RNH,…
If by politics we essentially mean the mobilization of people for pursuing some objectives of great importance, then in the present context such mobilization is most needed for the objective…
Burkina Faso, under President Ibrahim Traoré, has become a focal point for anti-imperialist sentiment and political renewal in Africa. Traoré’s government has taken bold steps to assert national sovereignty, including…
We all, assuredly, recall that Joe Biden was great in improving the U.S. economy after the Covid-19 outbreak happened. For example, he, supposedly, helped create an impressive 750,000 factory jobs,…
A recent coup attempt in Burkina Faso has caused much concern, coming as it did on top of several other coups and coup attempts in recent times in the wider…
NEW YORK – We are barely 100 days into US President Donald Trump’s second term, but much is already clear. Trump 2.0 is starkly different: more confident and surrounded by…
In May 2024, indirect talks between Iran and the US had been secretly begun in Muscat, Oman, under the Biden Administration. The issues discussed were Iran's nuclear program and the…
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor took, watched when they mobilized, noticed the causes…
The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by the Trump administration. From…
Every day, we see a new assault on public health. While seemingly disparate problems, they are all linked by cause and solution. From cuts in HIV programs, Covid protections, and…
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”, wrote Oscar Wilde in his novel 135 years ago. This…
Terrorism today is neither ideologically monolithic nor geographically confined. It thrives in a multipolar world riddled with digital disinformation, proxy conflicts, and porous borders. As such, state responses have evolved…
The news of the greatest urgency about Somalia and Somaliland today is the same as it has been for some years—the region is in the middle of a very serious…
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, illegally arrested and jailed by masked ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents on April 14 during a naturalization interview in Vermont to finalize his…
Fires are raging in Israel. Flames have started in the West Jerusalem hills and are feared to be creeping into northern Israel with around 119 fire crews, 10 firefighting planes,…
After two decades of savage U.S. efforts to impose imperial control over South Vietnam, the effort collapsed in April 1975. Columns of refugees and routed troops packed the roads twisting…
Geneva – The US military’s targeting of a migrant detention centre in Yemen has resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries. The strike represents a dangerous escalation in Operation Rough Rider,…
Canada held its general election during a period heavily burdened by internal and external issues. The Liberal Party, a progressive-moderate party led by Justin Trudeau for the past ten years,…
Believing that the world is doomed, Elon Musk has more than once announced his intention to head for Mars to establish a new world. His work at DOGE (Department of…
It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones.…
Introduction: China’s Strategic Pivot in South Asia The evolution of China’s role in South Asia, particularly within the context of the India-Pakistan rivalry, reflects a deliberate and sustained effort to…
A US airstrike killed 68 people at a migrant detention facility Monday in Yemen’s Sa’ada province, in one of the greatest massacres of civilians to date in the Trump administration’s…
In an age marked by hyper-imperialism, jingoistic capitalism, and digital feudalism, the death toll from territorial wars, political, religious, and resource-based conflicts, as well as terrorism, continues to rise across…
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