The U.S. bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president showcased the hyper-imperialist stage of the world order. A new mood in the Global South isn’t yet a developed challenge to the collective West.
In the end, with weary citizens yearning for extinction, empires light their own funeral pyre.
While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security.
In an open letter in Berliner Zeitung, the author tells the German chancellor that peace in Ukraine cannot be achieved by pretending that Russia’s security concerns do not exist.
Alastair Crooke on the Trump administration’s most recent National Security Strategy, which critiques U.S. pursuit of global primacy as a failure.
The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the illusion that the U.K. is a democracy. A mass movement is needed to address ten major issues, write Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock.
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
As in Potsdam at the end of the Second World War, the only path forward now is working out the terms of Ukraine’s defeat. And there is still time to save lives, writes Stefan Moore.
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West.