2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (470+ words) This post is also available in: French Nine days later, another advisor from that company, Zalmay Khalilzad, was appointed by Bush as special envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad had previously participated in discussions with Taliban officials about the possibility of building…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (155+ words) by Irshad Ahmad Mughal For centuries, the Arctic was humanity’s final frontier—a realm of perpetual ice, polar night, and the kind of cold that could kill a man in minutes. It was a place nature had reserved for itself....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (97+ words) By Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik. ProMosaik: How relevant is Marx today when it comes to the interaction between economy and war? What do you think are the main steps towards today’s Germany as a country of warmongering? Why are wars no…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (717+ words) A Conflation of Definitions A few months ago, I wrote a small series of articles for Pressenza that were critical of “globalism”.(1) The articles were generally very well received with the exception of a few notable detractors who seemed to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (630+ words) Russia would do well to learn from China, whose leader Xi Jinping has proudly exhorted the importance of self-criticism and self-reform for years already, even declaring that “We must be receptive to the public’s suggestions and willingly accept their supervision....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (562+ words) After my deep experiences during my investigation on the possibility of traveling in time, my view and understanding of human history changed profoundly....

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (150+ words) This post is also available in: French The approach in this article is twofold: first, to identify the conditions that give rise to fears of a world war; then, to identify the factors that could counteract them. The possibility of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (512+ words) Even just one of them – let alone a blend thereof – would de facto embed Ukraine within the Western half of the post-war European security architecture instead of restoring its neutrality....

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (459+ words) “When the great lions move one paw, the entire savanna ends up feeling the weight.” “Great powers can choose where a war begins; far less often can they choose where its consequences end.” “When a war ends up depending on…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1200+ words) In several previous articles, I have explored the idea that many of what we call geopolitical conflicts may have much deeper cultural roots. But political positions may sometimes be only the visible expression of something deeper. Beneath the political surface,…...