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Reckless Posturing: Trump Says He Wants To Resume Nuke Testing

President Donald Trump’s October 29 announcement that the United States will restart nuclear weapons testing after more than 30 years marks a dangerous turning point in international security

2025-10-31 01:48:33 0 Comment 18704 view

‘America First’ Meets ‘ASEAN Way’ In Kuala Lumpur

The 2025 ASEAN and East Asia Summits in Kuala Lumpur beginning today are set to be consequential multilateral gatherings — defining not only ASEAN’s internal cohesion but also the shape of U.S.–China relations in the Indo-Pacific

2025-10-28 02:26:29 0 Comment 23287 view

Latin America’s Time For Soul-Searching: Reviving Bolívar’s Dream Of Unity And Sovereignty

For far too long, the nations of Latin America have allowed themselves to be picked off one by one

2025-10-23 03:04:06 0 Comment 22819 view

EU Must Decide Between Baltic Cooperation Or Conflict

Peaceful cooperation in the Baltic region is essential not only for regional stability but also for the broader economic health of Europe and Russia alike

2025-10-21 07:57:06 0 Comment 19348 view

The Coming US Financial Crisis

Last week, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose additional 100% tariffs on China starting next month, the US stock market tumbled, and bond yields fell.

2025-10-18 12:31:09 0 Comment 19962 view

‘Patriot Bonds,’ An Indonesian Shakedown?

One might think that Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto would have learned lessons from the careers of his father, Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, one of the architects of Suharto’s mostly successful orthodox economic agenda, and his grandfather, Margono Djojohadikusumo, the founder of Bank Negara Indonesia, the country’s first central bank

2025-10-18 10:36:35 0 Comment 30773 view

Collective West Turn Blind Eye As Zelensky Regime Ramps Up Terror Tactics

In the face of continuing battlefield setbacks and withdrawals along much of the front line, Ukraine under the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky has increasingly adopted sabotage and terrorist methods as instruments of warfare

2025-10-13 05:07:44 0 Comment 23178 view

Will A TikTok Truce Save US-China Relations?

On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a framework agreement with He Lifeng, China’s top economic official, to save TikTok despite a 2024 law aimed at banning it from Americans’ phones. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to speak on Friday to finalize the deal

2025-09-25 12:47:35 0 Comment 31048 view

Baltic Chihuahuas Leading the West Into Catastrophic Confrontation

The three Baltic republics—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—punch far above their weight inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). That is not always a virtue

2025-09-25 08:56:35 0 Comment 38659 view

A Fatal Seduction — Artificial Intelligence Lures Children Into Suicide

The crowd was hushed in the Senate hearing room yesterday. Outside, a rainstorm brewed over the city

2025-09-22 06:08:49 0 Comment 29183 view

Asia And The World Need Indonesia To Secure Its Democracy

Indonesia’s president Prabowo Subianto will have watched mass protests sweep the streets of his country in recent weeks with understandable nervousness

2025-09-22 05:48:11 0 Comment 33625 view

An Unwanted Middleman: How The U.S. Seeks To Shore Up Its Relevance As De-dollarisation Accelerates

The U.S. is rapidly losing its grip as the global hegemon. The unipolar order that took shape after 1991 is not simply in decline — it is finished, dead and buried

2025-09-17 14:36:15 0 Comment 89999 view

Muslim Brotherhood: A Global Jihadist Threat

US Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, on July 16 introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025

2025-09-04 05:21:52 0 Comment 59688 view

Why Was Japan The Only Nuclear Holocaust In 80 Years?

Eighty years ago today, August 6, 1945, the U.S. military dropped an atomic weapon nicknamed “Little Boy” on the city Hiroshima, Japan

2025-08-07 11:46:22 0 Comment 44585 view

Russia's Diplomatic Recognition Takes Kabul Nowhere

As millions of Afghans struggle with chronic food insecurity and millions more refugees get pushed out of Pakistan and Iran into overcrowded, under-resourced camps around Kabul, the Taliban government has scored a symbolic diplomatic win

2025-07-23 06:11:49 0 Comment 42027 view

Why Al-Jazeera Should Be Designated As A Foreign Terrorist Organization

On June 18, the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera TV network (in Arabic) broadcast another "exclusive" video of a speech by Abu Obaida, the masked spokesman of the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas

2025-07-23 06:04:57 0 Comment 55270 view

Western Aid Cuts Cede Ground To China In Southeast Asia

China is set to expand its influence over South-east Asia’s development as the Trump administration and other Western donors slash aid, a study by an Australian think-tank said on July 20

2025-07-23 05:49:01 0 Comment 33416 view

Israeli-Fueled Fantasy To Bring Back Shah Has Absolutely No Juice

The Middle East is a region where history rarely repeats itself exactly, but often rhymes in ways that are both tragic and absurd

2025-06-25 04:17:20 0 Comment 44128 view

The Musk-Trump Blood Feud And The US Political Crisis

The eruption of a public conflict between President Donald Trump and his former budget adviser, Elon Musk—the world’s richest man

2025-06-10 03:31:35 0 Comment 29739 view

Indonesia's Slide Toward Militarism

Last week, the normally staid Jakarta Post, Indonesia’s leading English-language daily, published a blistering editorial saying that 27 years after the strongman Suharto fell from power

2025-06-03 06:57:02 0 Comment 54017 view