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The US Is Once Again Trying To Subordinate India

India’s defiance might soon lead to trouble in its ties with the US unless one of them relents. There were high hopes late last year that “Trump Will Repair The Damage That Biden Dealt To Indo-US Ties” due to the…

A superhighway to nuclear hell

Trump’s reckless and accelerated nuclear orders would destroy safety oversight and endanger the public, writes Linda Pentz Gunter On May 23rd, with several strokes of his pen, President Trump issued orders that would roll back US energy policy about 50…

Empires Eat Themselves: Trump’s Absurd War on Education

The US is at war. It has always been at war. Whether a world war, a proxy conflict, an armed intervention, a psyop, or a regime change mission, the United States has not enjoyed a single moment of true, unadulterated…

When Bangladesh Opposes India’s Push Back Policy

After a number of incidents and subsequent news appeared in media outlets, an adviser in the Bangladesh interim government, led by Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, stated that Dhaka had officially protested against the Push Back policy, which was adopted…

Why is Russia’s Economic Presence Invisible Across Africa?

After two historic Russia-Africa summits, several conferences and bilateral meetings intended to move Russia’s relations from stagnation to growth, from low-level to another stage within the context of geopolitical competition and rivalry, has hit institutional obstacles including political bureaucracy and…

Trump Officials Open Millions of Acres of Alaska Wildlands to Oil and Gas Drilling

United States Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced on Monday that the federal government had proposed the reversal of a Biden-era order banning oil and gas drilling on the 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope. The remote area is…

General Assembly on Administrative Detention: A Critical Debate in Milan

On 23–24 May, the Centro Internazionale di Quartiere (CIQ), an intercultural hub located in the Corvetto district in southeast Milan, hosted the fourth edition of the “General Assembly on Administrative Detention” (Stati Generali sulla Detenzione Amministativa). Organised by the Association…

Five Takeaways From Poland’s Presidential Election

MAGA and European conservatives win, Ukraine and the EU lose, and there’s less risk of a war with Russia. Polish conservative presidential candidate Dr. Karol Nawrocki narrowly beat his liberal rival Rafal Trzaskowski on Sunday during the second round of elections by…

ASEAN’s Missed Opportunity for Beleaguered Myanmar

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) once again failed Myanmar at the summit in Kuala Lumpur from 26 to 27 May 2025 with a “Peace Formula”, when the country plunged into a bloody civil war with “revolutionary” armed ethnic…

The Futility of India-Pakistan Posturing in the Shadow of Ceasefire

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal The solution is simple: sit together, engage in dialogue, resolve conflicts, and establish trade relations to bring prosperity to South Asia. Yet our leaders embark on global tours, spouting complex rhetoric while avoiding the straightforward path…

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