US President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing an aggressive agenda to weaken the federal government and reject long-standing norms. The administration is cutting foreign aid and hollowing out ...
On August 20, a group of Kenyans filed a case against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights. They were seeking justice for the atrocities the British committed against them during the colonial ...
“Alliances born of compulsion rarely endure; partnerships shaped by illusion, even less so.” For decades, the world has viewed the China–Pakistan relationship as one forged in steel and tested by time ...
For the past several weeks, Iranians have taken to the streets in Kurdish provinces like Ilam and Kermanshah to Tehran, Tabriz and nearly every province in between, protesting political repression, ...
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is continuing its terror campaign of kidnapping innocent civilians (teachers and government officials) to feed its perverse ideology ...
IMF loans issued in the Americas and India to address foreign exchange crises ultimately weakened domestic economies and industries. China takes a different approach to lending by funding ...
Many readers would see Turkey’s condemnation as a simple case of an Islamist regime railing against Western suppression of Islam. Indeed, the government’s statement was full of accusations of ...
No institution lasts forever, and NATO is no exception. If the “transatlantic bargain” no longer makes sense for any of the partners, they will split. But chances are that this transatlantic divorce ...
On September 16, a young Kurdish girl named Jina (Mahsa) Amini died in the hospital after being beaten to death in the custody of Iran’s morality police. In a widely shared video of Jina’s funeral, ...
For a sports event established and still trading on the rhetoric of world peace and unity, such a controversial intervention from a past FIFA leader is unprecedented and extraordinary. FIFA, ...
Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that United States global hegemony ...
Iran’s intensified repression of Kurdish opposition groups reflects deep fears of a coordinated internal uprising that could unite marginalized ethnic communities and opposition forces. Tehran’s ...