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Here’s How The US’ Proxy Control Of Venezuela Can Harm Cuban, Chinese, & Russian Interests

Cuba might be coerced into subordinating itself to the US, the cascading consequences of other major BRI partners being intimidated into following Venezuela’s example could compel changes to China’s development strategy, and some of Venezuela’s Soviet/Russian arsenal might be sent…

When Risk and Expensive Credit Are Only for ‘Poor Countries’: The G7’s Global Credit Double Standard

When Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley posed her question to the heart of the global financial order—why was quantitative easing anathema to the Global South until the G7 needed it?—she was not making a technical inquiry. She unleashed a…

The Arctic–Greenland–Florida Conga

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget), from October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern…

The prince unmasked: declining hegemony, structural blackmail, and the geopolitics of systemic chokepoints

Abstract This paper advances a structural hypothesis on the behavior of declining hegemonies and their impact on the reconfiguration of the contemporary international order. It argues that when a power simultaneously loses productive, technological, and normative primacy, with no short-term…

‘Overcoming the crisis and global uncertainty: humanity in action’, the IV Assembly of the World Humanist Forum calls for joint action.

Under the title ‘Overcoming the crisis and global uncertainty: humanity in action’, the IV Open Assembly of the World Humanist Forum will take place on 24th and 25th January 2026. The central theme of this Assembly aims to reflect both…

New Year’s celebrations in different cultures: Hopes for renewal and a better future for all.

At the Punta de Vacas Study and Reflection Park, a place far from the centers of power but very close to the deep heartbeat of Humanity, Silo—founder of New Humanism—delivered a brief but very meaningful greeting at the beginning of…

When 2025 Sets, a New Game Begins: Faith, Fate, and the Promise of Peace

As the sun slowly sets on 2025, it casts long shadows of both triumph and trial. This year, like life itself, unfolded between moments of success that inspired us and moments of failure that humbled us. It became a living…

An imprisoned doctor, a wounded humanity: an urgent call for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

More than a year after his detention without charges, without trial, and without minimum guarantees of due process, the Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya remains imprisoned by Israel under conditions denounced as inhuman by international human rights organizations. Director…

The universe does not advance in a straight line: The discovery of an “impossible” galaxy and the roughness of cosmic time

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the traditional cosmological narrative and invites us to think of the Universe not as a neat succession of closed stages, but…

Neocoherence: when order does not collapse, but is negotiated

For decades, physics has explained the transition from the quantum world to the classical world as a loss: coherence dissipates, superposition collapses, and reality “decides.” The notion of neocoherence proposes another reading: not the disappearance of quantum order, but its…

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