Geopolitics

Intrigue — and Confusion — Reign Over Ukraine

Intrigue — and Confusion — Reign Over Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump aired frustrations that his efforts to end the Ukraine war are not working with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The matrix is getting complicated, writes M.K. Bhadradumar.
06.10.2025

UK’s Rank Hypocrisy on Terrorism

UK’s Rank Hypocrisy on Terrorism

The admission that the U.K. government has provided aid to a proscribed terrorist group, while arresting citizens for the support of an anti-genocide group similarly proscribed is the height of hypocrisy.
24.09.2025

What’s In a Name? The ‘Defense’ Department Has Always Been About War

What’s In a Name? The ‘Defense’ Department Has Always Been About War

The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do.
23.09.2025

Shooting Down Russian Drones Over Poland: Who Is Trying To Start World War 3?

Shooting Down Russian Drones Over Poland: Who Is Trying To Start World War 3?

The world is now closer to a full-scale war between NATO and Russia than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
17.09.2025

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
15.09.2025

When Australia Defied US Nuclear Plans

When Australia Defied US Nuclear Plans

Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in 1981, established a high-water mark for Australian sovereignty over U.S. nuclear-capable bomber operations, write Richard Tanter and Vince Scappatura.
12.09.2025

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

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