Youth may be the vanguard among those demanding ecologically responsible patterns of humane governance for the planet

Biden and Putin should seek a Cuban-missile-style compromise in which NATO allies agree to negotiate the security guarantees that Russia seeks and Putin, in turn, pledges to forego an invasion of Ukraine

Many on the Israeli right, even now, favor “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians to achieve racial purity in Israel and to complete the work of de facto annexation of the West Bank

It is way past time for the West to get over its distress about the outcome of the Iranian revolution that brought the popular movement headed by Ayatollah Khomeini to power in early 1979

Interview on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency

As matters now stand there are not sufficient shared values at the global level to constitute community

I am not pretending that the impossible can happen, but only that what now seems impossible becomes possible with the passage of time and the creative impact of hidden forces of justice and change

Smoothing the rough edges of this American political crisis may buy some needed time to reinvent humane politics in the 21st century

In my view, the most notable developments in 2022 will flow from the impacts of disillusionment with any hope that constructive action can follow from the peace diplomacy of the past or new UN pressures

What we should know by now is that imperial reliance by the Global North on hard power to control societies in the Global South is a costly, prolonged undertaking, prone to failure and is a major reason for the power shifts from West to East during the last half century