International relations provides reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on relations among countries and particularly colonialist and imperialist, or progressive relations.
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans the…
Netanyahu Rejects Trumpās Gaza Plan The Trump-led Board of Peace claimed it had concluded an āhistoricā deal with Hamas and Israel under…
News that, in the midst of the genocide in Palestine, the German parliament was this week advancing legislation that would criminalize speech…
The United States has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the past few weeks alone, the Trump…
Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that…
On the night of July 30, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his newly minted āBoard of Peaceā had reached what he termed…
Among many buzzwords in diplo-speak around Palestine is the support for āa demilitarized Palestinian state living side by side in peace next…
Iread the draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values the way you read a letter from someone you used to trust. For pages,…
Security Pact or Capital Realignment? The defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan should not be read simply as a military…
The protracted slaughter in Gaza stands as one of the defining moral catastrophes of the modern era. With tens of thousands of…
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