US President Donald Trump’s Iran war is damaging the US alliance system as much as it is damaging the Middle East. As European governments resist a war they did not choose, Washington has responded ...

Is Donald Trump a fascist? If you go by political scientist Michael Parenti’s definition, the answer is yes. Definitely. One of the most important aspects of fascism, and also one of the most ...

It is astonishing that every day that goes by, women are killed the world over in the ordinariness of daily life — not in times of war, internal conflicts or gang violence, but by the people closest ...

Wednesday, January 20, 2021, was a bright day. The inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46 th president of the United States seemed to mark the end of the dysfunctional period of Donald Trump. The ...

The Financial Times recently published a comment from an anonymous major oil company executive vis-à-vis investment in Venezuela, “No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change ...

A 2012 report by Hong Kong based “Political and Economic Risk Consultancy” classified India’s bureaucracy as “the worst in Asia with a 9.21 rating out of 10.” Vietnam scored 8.54, Indonesia 8.37, The ...

The mainstream narrative about Donald Trump’s supporters, otherwise known as the MAGA nation, is that they are generally ignorant, racist, reactionary, utterly blind to Donald Trump’s faults and ...

On June 4, India released the results of the 2024 parliamentary elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to win a majority on its own. India’s Lok ...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed sounded an alarm bell eight years ago that rings loudly today. Fuelling a global groundswell of anti-Muslim and antimigrant sentiment, Mr ...

Germany is the great latecomer in Western Europe. For much of its history, Germany was a territorial space occupied by dozens of autonomous political entities — kingdoms, principalities, duchies, ...

In early March 2026, US President Donald Trump called Kurdish leader Mustafa Hejri, the head of the Iranian Democratic Party. The purpose of this call, according to the sources, was to push Kurds to ...

In 2018, investment manager Brent Johnson introduced the Dollar Milkshake Theory to answer a big puzzle in modern economics: Why does the dollar grow stronger during crises, even when the US is ...