International issues

When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. By Medea…

As International Zero Waste Month draws to a close, environmental NGO BAN Toxics urged the Philippine government to abandon plans to pursue waste-to-energy (WTE) as a solution to the country’s escalating waste problem. The call came after Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo…

Redirecting Iran’s oil exports from China to India in exchange for partial US sanctions relief could avert another American attack by satisfying its goal of depriving China of some of the resources that it requires for maintaining its rapid superpower…

What distinguishes Sudan’s catastrophe—stretching from earlier civil wars through Darfur and into the present conflict between rival military powers—is not only the scale of suffering, but the way violence has become structural, embedded in the very organization of political power.…

The growing call to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States marks a rare moment when global sport, geopolitics, and civil society collide in full public view. With former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European political and football figures…

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today the new position of the Doomsday Clock, an international symbol representing the level of global risk linked to nuclear weapons, climate crisis, geopolitical instability, and emerging technologies. With today’s update, the Doomsday…

Guatemala hosted the International Meeting “Women and Indigenous Women in Latin America: Moving Toward Parity and Democracy.” During the two-day meeting, around 100 women leaders from Guatemala, Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, and Costa Rica discussed how parity, alternation, and the inclusion…

Geneva (Switzerland): At least 12 Bangladeshi journalists were injured in an attack by extortionists and terrorists in the Narsingdi locality of the South Asian nation on 26 January 2026, as the media professionals were returning to Dhaka by bus after…

With the abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, the United States under Donald Trump is returning to a power-based logic of influence in Latin America—one that many in the region believed had long been overcome. In this interview, political scientist…

We, the undersigned organizations and movements committed to social justice, democracy, and international law, grounded in anti-imperialist struggle and peoples’ sovereignty, unite in unequivocal condemnation of the recent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the constitutionally recognized President of Venezuela, by armed…