Slovak Opposition Incensed By Fico’s Moscow Scrutiny ‘Farce’
By Natália Silenská (EurActiv) -- Slovak opposition MPs have lashed out after a parliamentary session on Prime Minister Robert Fico's growing infatuation with Russia's Vladimir Putin was monolpolised...
View ArticleA Wagner Mercenary Who Crossed US-Mexican Border Was Honored In Russia Weeks...
By Carl Schreck, Mark Krutov, Mike Eckel and Ramazan Alpaut (RFE/RL) -- A self-confessed veteran of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group arrested for crossing into the United States from Mexico appears...
View ArticleA Deal With Russia At Ukraine’s Expense Will Not Bring Peace – Analysis
By Olena Snigyr (FPRI) -- Discussions of possible ceasefire negotiations in the war between Russia and Ukraine focus on the concessions that Ukraine could make to stop the hot phase of the war. At the...
View ArticlePresidential Elections In Croatia 2025: A Choice Between ‘Constitutional’ And...
The first round of the eighth presidential elections in the Republic of Croatia was held on 29 December 2024. There were 3,762,224 eligible voters, who cast their votes at 6,755 polling stations in...
View ArticleSeven Inaccuracies About US Support For Somaliland – OpEd
By Joshua Meservey Amid reports that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration may consider recognizing the self-governing coastal region of Somaliland as independent from Somalia, Somali...
View ArticleLebanon’s New President Should Pursue Accountability – OpEd
On January 9, 2025, Lebanon’s parliament elected military commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending a two-year political deadlock in the country that resulted in a leadership and governance vacuum....
View ArticleStatement By Ralph Nader And Bruce Fein – OpEd
You have just decided that grizzly bears can remain on the endangered species list. Yet, week after week, you have watched Netanyahu target with U.S. F-16s innocent defenseless Palestinian families,...
View ArticleDavid Vs Goliath: Amish Farmer Prevails Over Feds In Court – OpEd
By John Klar Legal counsel for Amish food rights activist Amos Miller claimed victory in a recent Pennsylvania decision that permits the feisty farmer to continue selling his raw milk outside of the...
View ArticleA Trick Question: How Many Times Have Nuclear Weapons Been Used? – OpEd
By Joshua Mawhorter Readers are doubtless familiar with the concept of a trick question, in which the asking of the question is meant to purposely mislead the answerer into a seemingly obvious, but...
View ArticleTurkey Boosted By The Syrian Coup – OpEd
Afterthe Syrian people themselves, it is Turkey that has emerged as the biggest winner from the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. As soon as Assad fled to Moscow, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleCan Trump Save America From Itself? – OpEd
Russian FM Lavrov last week dismissed Team Trump’s floated peace proposals for Ukraine as unsatisfactory. Essentially, the Russian view is that the calls for a frozen conflict precisely miss the...
View ArticleTrump Unveils The Greater America Project – OpEd
On Tuesday, at a press conference at his Florida mansion, President-elect Donald Trump took his gloves off, after showing monumental patience in the face of the shenanigans by the lame duck president...
View ArticleDOGE And Joe Dodge – OpEd
By Lawrence W. Reed The stark numbers documenting Washington’s shameful profligacy should petrify anyone concerned about financial sanity and America’s future. The shortfall between revenues and...
View ArticleSince The 2011 Fukushima Accident, Japan Has Restarted 14 Nuclear Reactors –...
Japanese utilities restarted two additional nuclear reactors in 2024 that had been suspended from operations in response to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, taking the total number of restarted...
View ArticleIndonesia Should Repatriate, Deradicalize Families Linked To IS Militants In...
By Pizaro Gozali Idrus After the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Indonesia should repatriate nearly 400 citizens linked to the Islamic State group, otherwise they could be...
View ArticleHow NATO Can Strengthen Its Ties With The Indo–Pacific – Analysis
By Stephen Nagy Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the increased connectivity of war in modern times. Conflict in one part of the world cannot be separated from other regions. In June 2024,...
View ArticleJoseph Aoun To Visit Saudi Arabia On First Official Trip
By Najia Houssari New Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s first official overseas trip will be to Saudi Arabia, he said on Saturday. It came during during a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed...
View ArticleAfrican Union’s Summit Leaves Little Hope To Advance Agricultural...
Perhaps it was the most crucial summit held on January 9th to 11th in 2025 with a focus to raise agricultural productivity, increase public investment in agriculture, and stimulate economic growth...
View ArticleBangladesh Foreign Policy In Context Of The India-China-US Complex – OpEd
Ever since the people of the world learnt the need for homogeneity –be it cultural, linguistic, religion, tribal of for the necessity to band together and felt the need to acknowledge the existence of...
View ArticleThe Trump Doctrine: How Expansionist Dreams Are Redefining US Foreign Policy...
In a world where geopolitical boundaries are increasingly fluid, Donald Trump's recent assertions about "taking over" Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal have sparked both intrigue and alarm....
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