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SLOCs and Chokepoints: Panama, Greenland, Canada – and Indigenous Peoples

SLOCs and Chokepoints: Panama, Greenland, Canada – and Indigenous Peoples

Early into his second term as US President, Donald Trump threatened to seize control of the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada, possibly through military force.
03.03.2025

Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose

Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose

Exactly 177 days after being sworn to office, America’s greatest peace president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, announced that the demolition derby on the Korean peninsula would be halted, and that an armistice would prevail henceforth – which armistice remains in place to this very day.
11.02.2025

"Dreams Are Wearing Thin"

"Dreams Are Wearing Thin"

Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been killed or subdued so a small part of the world — the North Atlantic — could enrich itself. That is madness.
10.02.2025

Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock

Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, from 90 seconds up to 89 seconds to midnight, which must have come as a relief to the few members of the public who heard about it.
07.02.2025

Will the Global Elites’ War on Free Speech Succeed?

Will the Global Elites’ War on Free Speech Succeed?

The World Economic Forum (WEF), the self-anointed vanguard of the global elite, reconvened late in January in Davos, Switzerland.
06.02.2025

Bet You Never Thought You’d Miss the Rules-Based Order

Bet You Never Thought You’d Miss the Rules-Based Order

Once upon a time, there was something called international law. It was a set of codified laws that had the United Nations as its firm foundation and that applied universally and impartially to all nations.
06.02.2025

The Western Way of Genocide

The Western Way of Genocide

The Gaza genocide portends a dystopian world where the Global North’s industrialized violence sustains its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.
04.02.2025

Everyone Wants US Forces in Ukraine Except the US

Everyone Wants US Forces in Ukraine Except the US

Russia’s now unstoppable advance across eastern Ukraine ushers in the inevitability that Ukraine has lost, and the war will end.
27.01.2025

Joe Biden’s Legacy: Waging Proxy Wars, Spreading Terrorism and Killing Diplomacy

Joe Biden’s Legacy: Waging Proxy Wars, Spreading Terrorism and Killing Diplomacy

As the sun sets on Joe Biden’s presidency, the Commander-in-Chief and his top staffers are using their final moments in power to convince the American people that we live in a safer and more stable world.
16.01.2025

The Nihilism of Antony Blinken

The Nihilism of Antony Blinken

In a send-off interview with The New York Times, Biden’s secretary of state renders a sober-sounding account of the world as the retiring regime now leaves it that is so shockingly far from reality as to be frightening.
16.01.2025

You Can’t Make Peace if No One is Talking

You Can’t Make Peace if No One is Talking

During the Cold War, American and Russian officials and diplomats were in constant communication.
14.01.2025

Biden Defends Foreign Policy Record Despite Raging Wars in Ukraine and Gaza

Biden Defends Foreign Policy Record Despite Raging Wars in Ukraine and Gaza

The president framed the Ukraine proxy war and US support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza as a success.
14.01.2025

A History of Humiliation

A History of Humiliation

After a history of U.S. bullying and humiliation — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — it can’t be assumed Moscow is bluffing when it warns of nuclear war.
29.11.2024

On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes

On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes

With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis.
19.11.2024

G20 launches global alliance to reduce hunger, poverty

G20 launches global alliance to reduce hunger, poverty

Reduce hunger and poverty around the world.
19.11.2024

Multipolarity and Its Potentials for Peace

Multipolarity and Its Potentials for Peace

For the past several decades, as the leader of a unipolar world, all diplomatic pathways to peace went through Washington.
11.11.2024

War and the Constitution

War and the Constitution

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged?
30.10.2024

The World’s Not Aligning America’s Way

The World’s Not Aligning America’s Way

In recent weeks, a number of shifts in relations have taken place in far apart regions that continue to highlight that the world is not aligning America’s way.
29.10.2024

The West’s Support for Israel’s Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It

The West’s Support for Israel’s Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It

The horrifying images from Gaza last week of fire consuming a Palestinian teenager confined to his hospital bed with an intravenous drip may come to define Israel’s genocide, as completely as earlier images of human depravity have defined the world.
26.10.2024

War & the Constitution

War & the Constitution

Congress has not declared war on Iran; nor has it authorized the use of U.S. military forces against it. Yet the White House says it is sending around 100 troops to Israel.
24.10.2024

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