- — The United States' history of regime change — revisited
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at 2/3/26 2:55amSince the early 20th century, the US has commandeered coups around the world, helping opposition figures and their mutinous militaries topple leaders whose policies they abhor. Why? These heads of state launched programmes to redistribute land, strengthen labour unions, health and education systems and nationalise industries. Washington insists they're ‘communist' or ‘socialist' and will threaten American dominance and corporate interests. - Outside in / Comment, thenation- — Gaza: from witness to resistance
- at 2/2/26 3:07am‘Damar tam' is an Arabic expression for total destruction. It's the term most often used by Gazan survivors when describing the state of the Palestinian enclave. With more than 71,000 people dead, 170,000 wounded, 80% of buildings destroyed, Gaza is a field of ruins and shattered lives. The scale of the catastrophe is such that comparisons with the Nakba of 1948 are apt: of what existed before 7 October 2023, almost nothing remains. This collection of articles bears witness to what has (…) - Ebooks / Dossier, ebook
- — Major arms sellers and buyers
- at 1/29/26 1:43amSource: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfer Database, 2025 - Arms trade / Map, 2026/02 war weapons
- — The four major powers compared
- at 1/29/26 1:43amSources: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, 2025, www.sipri.org; World Bank database, databank.worldbank.org - Arms trade / Map, 2026/02 four powers
- — Lindsey Graham and the business of war
- at 1/29/26 1:42amThe senator from South Carolina has spent three decades advocating aggressive intervention as the solution to international problems. No wonder Trump's rhetoric is music to his ears. - 2026/02 / article
- — ‘Wines of Israel' – produced on Palestinian land
- at 1/29/26 1:42amSeizing Palestinian land, planting vines and mislabelling their wines as ‘Product of Israel' has become common among Israeli settler winemakers. International buyers continue to turn a blind eye. - 2026/02 / article
- — Japan's new prime minister raises the stakes
- at 1/29/26 1:42amFor decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder. - 2026/02 / article
- — Japan's new prime minister raises the stakes
- at 1/29/26 1:42amFor decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder. - 2026/02 / article
- — Turkey and the politics of genocide denial
- at 1/29/26 1:42amAsserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey's penal code. Denial prevents the state's founding myth from unravelling. - 2026/02 / article
- — Turkey and the politics of genocide denial
- at 1/29/26 1:42amAsserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey's penal code. Denial prevents the state's founding myth from unravelling. - 2026/02 / article
- — The end of empathy
- at 1/29/26 1:42amWorld leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem. But this is not an exception: shelving suffering and erasing ‘awkward' peoples, has become a defining logic of our time. - 2026/02 / article
- — An ambiguous international order
- at 1/29/26 1:42amJanuary 1942 Declaration by United Nations (originally signed by 26 countries including the US, UK and China) confirms commitment to pursue war against the Axis powers November 1943 Cairo declaration (US, UK and China) sets out principles for the postwar world order February 1945 Yalta conference (US, UK and USSR) outlines the campaign against Japan and the postwar world order July 1945 Potsdam declaration (US, UK and USSR) dictates terms for Japan's surrender September 1951 Treaty (…) - 2026/02 / box, 2026/02 Japan
- — Japan's dangerous game with China
- at 1/29/26 1:42amJapan's postwar constitution renounces war ‘forever'. But with fears that US actions in Venezuela could embolden China to seize Taiwan, Sanae Takaichi could be tempted into a risky game. - 2026/02 / article, 2026/02 Japan
- — Europe's strategic bind over Ukraine
- at 1/29/26 1:42amBy prolonging a war that cannot be fought without the US, Europe has placed itself squarely in Washington's hands. At what price? - 2026/02 / article
- — US: an old-new imperial doctrine
- at 1/29/26 1:42amThe United States has grown wary of longterm occupations. Abandoning the pretence of exporting democracy, the Trump administration has chosen to force existing powers to comply with its rule. - 2026/02 / article
- — Iran in the eye of the storm
- at 1/29/26 1:42amBrutal repression of protests in recent weeks has exposed an Iranian regime that is almost out of options. And foreign interference is increasing the pressure on national unity and regional stability. - 2026/02 / article, 2026/02 four powers
- — Why Trump's Greenland fixation?
- at 1/29/26 1:42amDonald Trump has staked his capricious claim to Greenland on the grounds of national security, access to minerals – and ‘psychological need'. But behind his fixation lies a neo-imperial mindset. - 2026/02 / article, 2026/02 war
- — America unbound, Europe sidelined
- at 1/29/26 1:42amDonald Trump's recent actions have laid bare the EU's weakness. Its leaders' knee-jerk calls for ‘more Europe' will only strengthen Washington's hand. - 2026/02 / article, 2026/02 war, 2026/02 war weapons
- — World on the brink
- at 1/29/26 1:42amA largescale war is looming, warn a significant number of Cassandras, politicians, researchers, senior army officers and journalists, based on the chaos of the past year. ‘I've reported on more than 40 wars around the world during my career, which goes back to the 1960s. I watched the cold war reach its height, then simply evaporate. But I've never seen a year quite as worrying as 2025,' writes John Simpson, the BBC's world affairs editor . The Council on Foreign Relations says the number of (…) - 2026/02 / article
- — World on the brink
- at 1/29/26 1:42amA largescale war is looming, warn a significant number of Cassandras, politicians, researchers, senior army officers and journalists, based on the chaos of the past year. ‘I've reported on more than 40 wars around the world during my career, which goes back to the 1960s. I watched the cold war reach its height, then simply evaporate. But I've never seen a year quite as worrying as 2025,' writes John Simpson, the BBC's world affairs editor . The Council on Foreign Relations says the number of (…) - 2026/02 / article, 2026/02 war
- — Looking back at Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution
- at 1/26/26 7:51amThe kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro on the night of 2-3 January 2026 did not so much mark Venezuela's return to the international stage as serve as a reminder that the country has never stopped being a major strategic asset. Washington now seems determined to place Venezuela and its natural resources under its control and to pull the country away from its alliances with China, Iran and Russia. In Caracas, Delcy Rodríguez, acting president of the Caribbean nation in Maduro's absence, stated: ‘We (…) - 2026/01 / Dossier
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