International issues

“Every day I check my mailbox, but I have not found a letter from the Almighty confirming it.” That was Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s reply when I asked whether he considered the Zionist state “the beginning of the flowering of our…

Korean and Filipino organizations Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and BAYAN-USA mobilized hundreds of people in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other U.S. cities to demand an end to the U.S.-ROK alliance and escalation towards war in the…

This article by Sergey Lavrov was initially planned to be published in the Brussels-based “Politico-Europe”, but via a last-minute decision of the outlet’s editorial team the publication was canceled. By Sergey Lavrov Some Reflections on Resolving the Ukrainian Crisis, Europe…

16 August 2026, Quezon City.  As the Minamata Convention on Mercury hits its nine-year mark today, environmental health and justice group EcoWaste Coalition called on the government to intensify enforcement of policies and regulations aimed at protecting people and ecosystems from…

My name is Shiler Sido, a visionary peacebuilding specialist and community leader with over a decade of dedicated service in humanitarian response, human rights advocacy, and organizational development across conflict-affected regions. I was born in 1989 in Afrin, Syria. I…

The US is replicating its anti-Russian regional containment model against China. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave a landmark speech in Manilla during the first leg of his Southeast Asian tour in early August that amounted to the US…

Zelensky’s 40-day influence operation provoked Putin into rendering Ukraine de facto landlocked. Politico published a piece about “How Russian attacks, European protectionism and drought are trapping Ukraine’s vital grain”, which drew attention to the interplay between these factors. Of particular…

The United States says it controls the strait; Iran demonstrates that it can still prevent the world from using it normally “A power can control the sea with aircraft carriers. Real power begins when ships are still afraid to sail…

(Moscow Bureau) – Amid geopolitical changes, the Red Sea security has seen new developments, creating heightened maritime tensions, while the Gulf States are racing to control the region. By a simple geographical definition, the Red Sea is a sea inlet…

Letter back to Mark Zuckerberg, who wrote to the whole world in order to look at no one. I return to you your favorite word, that “everyone,” and with it I turn the planet around —from China to America, counterclockwise—…