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What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to…

There is a fundamental, dramatic, and structural flaw in the bureaucratic accounts that continue to circulate regarding the massacres at sea: the idea that a decision—whether political or administrative—can override the duty to carry out a rescue at sea. To…

Sir Walter Raleigh wrote in the sixteenth century: “Whoever commands the sea commands the trade; whoever commands the trade commands the riches; and whoever commands the riches commands the world itself.” The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis showed how relevant that…

MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) just got a poke in the eye as the US Supreme Court narrowed avenues for plaintiff cases against the chemical giant Bayer (formerly Monsanto). Ever since March 2015, when the World Health Organization’s International Agency…

While NATO presents the “Russian threat” as the strategic foundation for German rearmament and its preparation for an eventual war, the real transformation is occurring on another plane: a narrative of future war that is driving the largest cycle of…

The Israeli government recognized the deaths of one and a half million Armenians during World War I as genocide for political reasons, and Armenia is not even the intended addressee here. Prime Minister Pashinyan quite rightly noted that his country…

To really understand what is happening in Europe I invite the readers of this article to go back with me in the European history of the last 5 or so centuries. It all began with Christophoro Columbus discovering a far…

Donald Trump did not invent America’s vulnerabilities, but he has driven them to a breaking point. His contempt for democratic norms, alliances, and international law has transformed the United States from an anchor of a rules based order into a…

By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) A growing domestic debate over the public display of white flags bearing Arabic calligraphy has sparked intense discussion among security analysts, diplomats, and civil society leaders in Bangladesh. Observers warn that while these displays…

In recent weeks, the long-standing confrontation between Iran and the United States has once again moved to the center of geopolitical developments in the Middle East. A new round of diplomatic talks, growing speculation over the release of part of…