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Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion
Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion
While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere spectacle or farce, its criminal, inhumane, and hegemonic nature makes it far too dangerous to ignore.
06.02.2026
US & China: India’s Sticky Situation
US & China: India’s Sticky Situation
While Modi has deepened ties with the U.S., he’s been careful to preserve India’s strategic autonomy, stopping short of aligning too closely with Washington, writes Betwa Sharma.
04.09.2025
SCO Tianjin Summit showcases the charm of genuine multilateralism
SCO Tianjin Summit showcases the charm of genuine multilateralism
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 is being held in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1.
01.09.2025
Trump and Putin are Ready to Talk. What’s Different?
Trump and Putin are Ready to Talk. What’s Different?
On August 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted that special envoy Steve Witkoff had just returned from “a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Trump said that “Great progress was made!”
12.08.2025
Rising Sovereignty of the Global South
Rising Sovereignty of the Global South
Though still weighed down by debt and austerity, developing countries are beginning to chart alternative paths as a new mood takes hold in the Global South.
01.08.2025
Washington Takes on the BRICS
Washington Takes on the BRICS
Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock.
23.07.2025
Is BRICS the Way Forward?
Is BRICS the Way Forward?
After witnessing Cuba’s ailing economy in a recent visit, Asoka Bandarage looks beyond BRICS for an alternative to both authoritarian socialism and neoliberal capitalism.
11.07.2025
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
At their summit in Brazil, members of the expanding Global South group condemned recent Israeli-U.S. attacks on Iran and Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul Rahman reports.
11.07.2025
Trump escalates global economic war
Trump escalates global economic war
After the passage of his budget which involves the biggest transfer of wealth in history into the hands of the financial oligarchs, US president Trump has now moved his tariff war against the rest of the world to the top of his economic agenda.
08.07.2025
The White House as Mad House
The White House as Mad House
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.
30.05.2025
BRICS & Industrial Development
BRICS & Industrial Development
With the expansion of the group to more countries of the Global South, a revival of the “Bangdung Spirit” is taking place, but not without its contradictions.
22.04.2025
A New International Order?
A New International Order?
Progressives’ support for a multilateral world often ignores how much the emerging new world is similar to the old one, a point also missed by Jeffrey Sachs in speaking of a “new international order,” writes Asoka Bandarage.
17.04.2025
Old Man Shouting
Old Man Shouting
In his State of the Union address, Biden was the face of the U.S. imperium as it insists on prolonging itself. This is not a role with any originality or vision.
12.03.2024
Russia’s Turn From the West
Russia’s Turn From the West
Sergei Lavrov’s recent comments are a case of the subtext being vastly larger than the text
23.01.2024
US Declares "War"
US Declares "War"
Subjects the audaciously aggressive U.S. strategic posture to the kind of examination that he finds remarkably absent, even at the highest levels of government
20.10.2023
10 Problems With India’s Stance on Gaza
10 Problems With India’s Stance on Gaza
Modi’s expression of support for Israel exposes the paradox of India’s claim to be the leader of the Global South
11.10.2023
UK & France Should Relinquish Permanent UN Seats
UK & France Should Relinquish Permanent UN Seats
Challenges the right of two old colonial powers to lord over present-day geopolitics
29.09.2023
US Can’t Deal with Defeat
US Can’t Deal with Defeat
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror
22.09.2023
No Respite for France as "New Africa" Rises
No Respite for France as "New Africa" Rises
African states are one-by-one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. They are saying “non” to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic and security affairs
08.09.2023
G20: Last Waltz in a World Torn Apart
G20: Last Waltz in a World Torn Apart
Ahead of the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, an event conceived in the world of yesterday, before the new cold war came roaring in, has lost significance
06.09.2023
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The Unrepentant West
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US' "fighting a proxy war to avoid a real NATO-Russia war" rhetoric is absurd
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Deaf, but Not Blind on US Decline
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Britain Confirms Depleted Uranium Munitions are Now in Ukraine
Britain Confirms Depleted Uranium Munitions are Now in Ukraine
Russia Making Money With Mercenaries in Africa
Russia Making Money With Mercenaries in Africa
A Nest of Like-Minded Vipers
A Nest of Like-Minded Vipers
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