International

Making demands for basic moral actions of governments unlikely to do most of them anytime soon can be a useful educational and long-term activity. Here are some demands for governments of the world that many of us have been making,…

The recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing, often portrayed in headlines through images of missiles and military parades, carries a deeper and more enduring significance. Beyond the choreography of power lies an attempt to question the…

Energy that is hailed as clean demands a vital resource that is missing: water. The world applauds green hydrogen as the clean energy that will save the planet. It is sold as the invisible gold of the twenty-first century. But…

Press Briefing: Yasin Malik’s Trail and Sentence – Legal Process or Political Agenda? on 03 September 2025 in Brussel. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us today. We are here to present a concise briefing on Yasin Malik—a Kashmiri…

The sea opens paths that the powerful tried to close. From Barcelona sets sail the Global Sumud Flotilla, a flotilla of persistence, of constancy, of resistance. Half a hundred boats that do not carry bombs but food and medicine, that…

The processes that are unfolding will take a lot of time to complete, perhaps even a generation or longer, so expectations of a swift transition to full-blown multipolarity should be tempered. The recent SCO Leaders’ Summit in Tianjin drew renewed…

The most that China is expected to do is deploy peacekeepers together with other countries per a potentially forthcoming UNSC Resolution that would likely see these forces jointly patrol whatever the “Line of Contact” may be and monitor each side’s…

Against the backdrop of a summit of Eurasian leaders representing more than half of the world’s population, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a bold vision: a proposal for global governance that seeks to reform the international system at its very…

“We can have a world that runs on a resource that’s available to everyone everywhere.” (Bill McKibben) There’s a renaissance of nature powering the world, and it’s happening throughout the planet hidden from public view because it’s everywhere all at…

Your Excellency President Xi Jinping, Excellencies, It is a privilege to address the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – the world’s largest regional organization by population and geography. We are moving towards a multipolar world. This is a reality – and an…