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The Monster is Not Outside of the House (The Post 9-11 Bogey Man and the End of Western Hegemony) 

The US Foreign Policy Takeover That Left 4.5 Million People Dead The neocon-globalist war machine, the one spearheaded by people like Tony Blair, Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, that has been carried forward for 2 decades by people like John…

Harmonized Diplomacy Could Shape Emerging Multipolar Architecture – says Sergey Lavrov

Traditionally, across Russia, the first week of September, which marks the beginning of the academic year, is strictly considered a significant time for government ministers, elite politicians, entrepreneurs, and academics to interact with students of higher educational institutions and establishments.…

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Meets a Multipolar Hemisphere

A recent article published in The Hill celebrated the revival of the Monroe Doctrine under Donald Trump by suggesting that U.S. pressure is displacing China from Latin America. But this view misreads both the nature of U.S. influence and the political and…

After the War: Strategic Distrust and the Collapse of Western Legitimacy

In June 2025, while indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States were still underway, Israel  followed soon by the U.S.  launched a military attack on Iranian territory. The attack, met with a 12-day Iranian response of surprising scale and…

As the US Pivots Toward Multipolar Shores, Europe Heads Directly for the Abyss (Part 1)

Introduction: An Optimal Way to Begin Many Americans automatically assume that their preferred political party’s foreign policy aims are substantively congruent with that party’s proclaimed domestic agenda. This simply isn’t the case though, and it’s been one of the primary…

CHECK (This Is The Key Reason Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work)

As far as the use of any more sanctions and/or tariffs is concerned, a large red flag was raised when the Biden administration tried to sanction Russia (14 rounds of sanctions) in 2022 – 2024. The sanctions produced a fiasco,…

De-Dollarization Was Always More Of A Political Slogan Than A Pecuniary Fact

Any breakthrough in Russian-US relations would inevitably disappoint those multipolar enthusiasts who bought into the most ideologically dogmatic narratives of the New Cold War and consequently believed that Russia would forever eschew the dollar out of principle. The three-year-long NATO-Russian…

This Is Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work (Are You Ready For 20 Dollar Lattes?)

An Important Distinction That the Media Has Been Missing About Trump’s Current Tariffs Threat Donald Trump, in a pre-inauguration day attempt to begin slowing down what has been termed the global “de-dollarization” process, has threatened to slap a 100% tariff…

Whither Multipolarity in a Changing World Order

The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci presciently observed: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” By Roger D. Harris…

A turning point for the world?

The turn of the year again focuses our thoughts more on the future of families. Hopes turn to health, peace and well-being. The German chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke at the last general assembly of the UN of a change of…