NATO’s Role In Southeast And East Asia: A Case For Non-Intervention – Analysis
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has traditionally focused on maintaining security in the Euro-Atlantic region. However, recent discussions have raised the possibility of NATO extending...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Debunking Myth #7: America Is Socialist – OpEd
I keep hearing a lot about “socialism” these days, mainly from Donald Trump and Fox News, trying to scare Americans about initiatives like a Green New Deal, universal child care, free public higher...
View ArticleIran: Pezeshkian Accentuates Regional Cooperation In His Foreign Policy – OpEd
Iranian President-Eect Masoud Pezeshkian said the guiding principle of his forthcoming administration’s foreign policy will include cooperation for regional development. In an op-ed article published...
View ArticleBiden, Trump Loom Large Over NATO Summit – OpEd
By Andrew Hammond Western leaders this week marked the 75th anniversary of NATO. Yet most of the attention during the organization’s annual summit in Washington was focused on US President Joe...
View ArticleGaza: There Is No Alternative To UNRWA, Guterres Says
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, standing alongside top officials in New York on Friday, underscored the essential need to bolster the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA) across the...
View ArticleAfter Glastonbury, Indonesia’s Hijab-Clad Metal Band Voice Of Baceprot Set...
By Tria Dianti and Ismira Tisnadibrata An unlikely trio became Indonesia’s first band to play at the famed Glastonbury Festival of music in England last month. The band members went to an Islamic...
View ArticleBiden Signs Bill Urging China To Resume Talks Over Tibet
By Tenzin Pema and Tashi Wangchuk President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law a bill that urges China to resume talks with the Dalai Lama or his representatives to arrive at a “negotiated agreement...
View ArticleBiden Digs In On Candidacy In Battleground State Amid Age Doubts
By Anita Powell "I promise you," said U.S. President Joe Biden, as he stood before a small crowd of supporters crammed into a Detroit diner – including a 4-year-old boy with a halo of blond hair,...
View ArticleThe Long Game In Singapore’s ‘Next Gen’ Politics – Analysis
By Kai Ostwald Singapore’s new prime ministerLawrence Wong, a 51-year-old technocrat with close ties to former premier Lee Hsien Loong, has settled into office after his elevation in May 2024. Wong’s...
View ArticleThe Myth Of Market Failure – OpEd
By Soham Patil A prominent topic that economics students anywhere cannot avoid is market failure. Students everywhere are taught that the free market is inherently unstable and causes problems that...
View ArticleTaliban’s Participation In The UN-Led Conference In Doha – Analysis
By Shivam Shekhawat The third edition of the United Nations (UN)-led international conference in Doha on Afghanistan, held on June 30th and July 1st, ended without any significant development. The...
View Article‘Letter From The Americas’ Urges Pope Francis To Stop Latin Mass Bans
By Peter Pinedo As worries mount over a possible ban against the Traditional Latin Mass, prominent Catholic and non-Catholic artists, activists, and leaders have come together in a letter to urge Pope...
View ArticleEU Hard-Right Parties To Back Von Der Leyen After ‘Intense’ Meeting
By Alessia Peretti and Sarantis Michalopoulos (EurActiv) -- The Belgian and Czech delegations of the hard-right ECR group have expressed their will to vote for Ursula von der Leyen for a second term...
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Steps Up Security In Mandalay As Fighting Spreads Across Region
Junta forces have tightened security in Myanmar’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, while shelling civilians elsewhere in the region, after coming under renewed attack from an alliance of insurgent...
View ArticleToll From Oman Mosque Attack Rises To Nine Including Three Gunmen
The death toll from a shooting near a Shiite mosque in Oman's capital has climbed to nine, police said Tuesday, adding that the three attackers were also killed. Earlier, Omani police issued a...
View ArticleUS Recently Informed About Iranian Plot To Kill Trump: CNN
(RFE/RL) -- An informant told U.S. authorities recently that Iran was plotting to assassinate Donald Trump, CNN reported, citing multiple people familiar with the matter. In response, the U.S. Secret...
View ArticleRwanda: Paul Kagame Returns To Power For A Fourth Term – OpEd
By Lisa Vives A battery of threats, arbitrary detention, prosecution on trumped-up charges, killings and enforced disappearances were deployed by the Rwandese President Paul Kagame in the recent...
View ArticleA Decade Later, MH17 Missile Attack Victims’ Survivors Want Justice
By Iman Muttaqin Yusof and Nisha David Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahim, a brother of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 co-pilot Muhamad Firdaus, said he is embittered that a decade after Russian-backed...
View ArticleEnd Of First Quarter Of 21st Century Marked By Significant Searches For New...
By General (Rtd) Corneliu Pivariu Just as the 20th century, after two world wars, gave birth to a bipolar and then unipolar world order, it is very possible that not long after the first quarter of...
View ArticleVoters Take Vengeance On The Tories – OpEd
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the rise of the New Right and its challenge to the liberal consensus on social, economic, and environmental policies; the displacement of the old left-right ideological...
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