Unsorted: War & Geopolitics

The abrupt cessation of US official development assistance (ODA), which began on Jan 20, 2025, was unprecedented. On that day the new US administration issued an Executive Order freezing all ODA pending a 90-day review. After a series of court challenges, the administration succeeded in drastically reducing ODA, including for health funding through programmes such as the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and largely dissolved the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

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In his thinkpiece in The Bulwark, the former Commanding General of US Army Europe says that not one of the seven wars President Donald Trump claimed to have settled has ended, and that these dangerous claims must be called out."Even as a tactical commander, I could never assume that a single battle...

As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade.

Donald Trump’s tariffs may not amount to the end of neoliberalism. But their potential success — a sign that the neoliberal consensus is no longer hegemonic — suggests that the old world is dying, and the struggle over what replaces it has only just begun.

The world stands on the brink of great-power conflict—yet neither candidate has mapped out for American voters how the U.S. can meet this challenge.

American allies see a second Trump term as all but inevitable. “The anxiety is massive.”

An increasingly autocratic government is making bad decisions

Manahel al-Otaibi, who promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws

It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is now a U.S./NATO-Russia war via Ukraine, Noam Chomsky argues.

At 94 years old, Noam Chomsky is as vocal as ever. In May, the American political commentator and linguist will publish his latest book, Illegitimate Authority, a collection of interviews with th

Noam Chomsky spoke with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s war in Ukraine, the media, propaganda, and accountability.

In a statement signed by 1,000 leading figures, including Noam Chomsky and Diego Luna, the EZLN say that they are coming under attack from paramilitary groups, who act with the ‘passive and active complicity’ of the authorities

Emmanuel Macron has pushed through a rise in the pension age despite vast protests. In a televised address on Monday night, he said he’d “heard the anger” in the streets — yet his government’s new budget plans promise further attacks on France’s social model.

The Rise of Andrew Tate Is Scary — But Could It Have Been Prevented? Understanding the reason behind his success can give us ideas on how to move forward I’ve recently been asking myself what’s …

Eight months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, POLITICO talks to the Russia analyst about whether Putin’s aims are evolving and what it would take to end the war.

Damage to the pipeline that runs between Russia and Germany is being treated as deliberate. Finding out what happened may not be straightforward.

Since the night of November 21, 2013 an extraordinary sequence of events has unfolded propelling a relatively little-known eastern European country to the center of the world stage. On that night the Euromaidan Movement began in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezelezhnosti Square. Since then Ukraine has become the focus of what is arguably the most significant post- […]

Most Canadians have little idea that in many places their government actively supports groups that are far more fascistic than the People’s Party of Canada.

No, Putin didn't wage war to "denazify" Ukraine — but that nation's shadowy far-right militias are big trouble