Geopolitics

The Decline of American Diplomacy
The Decline of American Diplomacy
From Galbraith and Moynihan to... whatever this is.
29.08.2025
Ending the Genocide Now
Ending the Genocide Now
A U.N. Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent U.N. membership would end Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine, write Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares. But the U.S. stands in the way.
28.08.2025
Europe’s Final Descent
Europe’s Final Descent
European elites, who have lived under U.S. shelter throughout the post-war period, are in no way capable of becoming independent. So-called EU strategic autonomy is an empty world. This is a new form of Stockholm Syndrome, writes Uroš Lipušcek.
28.08.2025
When the Russia ‘Experts’ Get It Wrong
When the Russia ‘Experts’ Get It Wrong
The Western punditariat’s commentary on Russia is spectacularly ill-informed.
27.08.2025
Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, greet members of the National Guard, at Union Station in Washington
21.08.2025
Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed
Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed
Exactly 63 years ago, on a summer afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Kennedy White House adviser, Arthur Schlesinger, returned to Harvard where he had, until recently, been a professor of history.
20.08.2025
US-Russia Talks: the Choice Between Peace and Escalation
US-Russia Talks: the Choice Between Peace and Escalation
Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
18.08.2025
Applying the Lost Art of Kremlinology
Applying the Lost Art of Kremlinology
If Moscow wants to avoid its own Vietnam in Ukraine, Putin may accept a “negotiated solution” that applies copious lipstick to the pig of actual defeat for the U.S., NATO and Ukraine.
15.08.2025
Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska
Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska
This week’s summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska is an opportunity for Russia and the West to negotiate a peaceful settlement in Ukraine.
15.08.2025
The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba
The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba
Netanyahu's mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West's cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution
15.08.2025
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
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962.
05.08.2025
Clapper’s Claptrap
Clapper’s Claptrap
The former U.S. director of national intelligence told CNN new Russiagate revelations were “nonsense” and “absurd” but he wasn’t challenged on any details the way Ray McGovern once did back in 2018.
04.08.2025
Zelensky’s Lack of Democratic Credibility Stymies Ukraine’s EU Hopes
Zelensky’s Lack of Democratic Credibility Stymies Ukraine’s EU Hopes
The champion of “democracy” is acting awfully autocratically.
31.07.2025
Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers
Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers
Trump's Washington Breathes New Life into the Military-Industrial Complex
30.07.2025
The Sleazy Origins of Russiagate
The Sleazy Origins of Russiagate
CN‘s founding editor already wrote in March 2017 that Christopher Steele’s “investigative dossier suggests that we can’t really think for ourselves. We are all Putin’s puppets.” Russiagate adherents clearly stopped thinking for themselves.
28.07.2025
Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge
Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge
In New York City, the battle has been joined between Democratic Party elites and the voters they are increasingly committed to suppressing, between money and democratic process, between power and the forces for change.
22.07.2025
From Carthage To Berlin, A Modest Proposal
From Carthage To Berlin, A Modest Proposal
The First Punic War began in 264 BC, lasted 25 years, and was fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians, a civilization in what is today modern Tunisia.
18.07.2025
American Authoritarianism
American Authoritarianism
Torture, rotating judges and prosecutors and incarceration for a generation without charges or trial are all hallmarks of an authoritarian government, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
18.07.2025
Battling for Dominance: Board Games and Bottlenecks
Battling for Dominance: Board Games and Bottlenecks
Steve Bannon declared China to be Donald Trump’s “real threat,” invoking what he called the “Edwardian view of geopolitics as a “world island”
07.07.2025
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Craig Murray: Trump, Tariffs & Trade
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The Syrian Fiasco
The Syrian Fiasco
The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Politics of Cultural Despair
House Passes Resolution That Suggests Using Force Against Iran
House Passes Resolution That Suggests Using Force Against Iran
South Africa Says Inquiry Found No Evidence of Arms Shipment to Russia
South Africa Says Inquiry Found No Evidence of Arms Shipment to Russia
Sharp Increase in Coronavirus Infections in Germany
Sharp Increase in Coronavirus Infections in Germany
Why did a pseudonym cause some Western media outlets to react so strongly?
Why did a pseudonym cause some Western media outlets to react so strongly?
US Says Stinger Shipment to Taiwan From 2019 Sale, Not Part of New Military Aid
US Says Stinger Shipment to Taiwan From 2019 Sale, Not Part of New Military Aid
Philippines Announces Locations of Four New US Bases
Philippines Announces Locations of Four New US Bases
Tarantino Turns 60
Tarantino Turns 60
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