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What Use Is A Mine Ban Treaty If Signers At War Change Their Minds?

Earlier this month in Geneva, delegates to the Antipersonnel Mine Ban Treaty’s 22nd Meeting of States Parties confronted the most severe crisis in the convention’s nearly three-decade history

2025-12-29 12:47:49 0 Comment 11659 view

When Allies Become Obstacles: Why The US Must Walk Away From Europe's Belligerent Plans

Diplomacy often requires hard choices that look ugly in the short term

2025-12-02 08:10:39 0 Comment 21831 view

Europe’s Shortsighted Rejection Of Peace Talks Risks A Wider Disaster

The appearance of a 28-point framework for ending the war in Ukraine however imperfect and tilted it may seem to some represents the one development in years that opens a genuine diplomatic window

2025-11-26 04:26:36 0 Comment 15431 view

Europe Must Dissolve NATO to Save Itself

If Europe is truly serious about rescuing its political and economic future, it must be willing to think beyond the boundaries of its current orthodoxy

2025-11-24 13:41:31 0 Comment 30670 view

FIFA, Politics, And The Weaponisation Of Sport: A Geopolitical Look At Malaysia's Football Scandal

The recent turbulence surrounding Malaysian football has raised eyebrows far beyond the stadiums and boardrooms of the sport

2025-11-14 10:39:46 0 Comment 31064 view

Collective West Continues Driving Conflict At Expense of Ukrainian Nation

The war that began as a defiant stand for sovereignty has turned into a slow and devastating unraveling of a nation

2025-11-12 02:32:23 0 Comment 16983 view

IFRC Plans To Double Size Of Disaster Response Emergency Fund By 2030

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) thanks governments and partners for their commitments made at the 2025 IFRC-DREF Pledging Conference, held in Geneva on November 7, 2025

2025-11-08 13:20:46 0 Comment 21823 view

NATO's Demilitarisation: Hubris, De-Industralisation, And The Shadow Of Nuclear Weapons

The war in Ukraine has peeled back the veneer of Western military supremacy, exposing a steady and self-inflicted process of demilitarisation

2025-11-03 06:02:33 0 Comment 22126 view

When Critical Infrastructure Comes Under Fire, Democracies Must Demand Answers

Recent fires and explosions at energy facilities in Hungary and Romania have reopened a deeply unsettling conversation about the fragility of critical infrastructure and the politics that surround it

2025-10-27 12:48:22 0 Comment 24942 view

Europe’s Chip Seizure: A Shortsighted Act Of Economic Self-Sabotage

The Dutch government’s decision to seize control of a Chinese-owned semiconductor firm Nexperia marks a dangerous turn in Europe’s growing fixation with “technological sovereignty.”

2025-10-21 12:21:12 0 Comment 33766 view

The West’s War on Global Shipping Risks a Global Food Crisis

Efforts by Western powers to interfere with global shipping in the name of punishing or inconveniencing Russia are fast becoming a threat not just to Moscow, but to the entire global economy

2025-10-15 03:47:29 0 Comment 44897 view

Western Threats Against Russian Shipping Risk Global Chaos

As tensions between NATO member states and the Russian Federation continue to escalate, one of the more dangerous and ill-conceived developments is the increasing Western rhetoric about targeting Russian shipping

2025-10-05 08:20:23 0 Comment 37838 view

Russia Should Apologise But Not As The Europeans Demand

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas recently demanded that Russia apologise for an alleged incursion into Estonian and NATO airspace

2025-10-03 06:20:39 0 Comment 33950 view

West’s Silence As Democracy Dies: Moldova, EU, And The Masks Of Hypocrisy

Moldova’s recent elections, won by Maia Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), have been hailed across Europe as a victory for democracy and a further step toward European Union (EU) integration

2025-09-29 05:13:01 0 Comment 33867 view

Rising Temperatures And Extreme Weather Hit Asia Hard

The WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report says that 2024 was the warmest or second warmest year on record (depending on the dataset), with widespread and prolonged heatwaves

2025-07-01 02:12:56 0 Comment 41341 view

BRICS Stockpiling Gold As G7 Weaponise Finance

The West’s decision to freeze and legalise the theft of Russian sovereign funds predictably diminished trust in the Western financial system

2024-11-15 03:32:08 0 Comment 49391 view

Xi Wants To Enlist The Global South In His Anti-American Movement

At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation starting September 4, Beijing will once again seek to deepen its engagement with countries in the Global South

2024-08-31 09:03:23 0 Comment 76130 view

Collective West Attempts to Drive Wedge In Russia-India Partnership As It Seeks To Draw New Delhi Into Its Camp

Despite the tangible diplomatic fiasco at the "peace summit" in Switzerland, Kyiv and its foreign patrons are not abandoning their attempts to "put together" an international anti-Russian coalition in support of Ukraine to encourage Moscow to negotiate on Ukrainian terms

2024-08-12 14:35:55 0 Comment 65545 view

Contesting Malaysia's Integration Into The World Economy

Show me the book the man reads, I will proceed to show you the man," affirmed George Bernard Shaw

2024-07-09 07:05:46 0 Comment 73144 view

UN Syria Envoy Appeals For Urgent De-escalation Across The Middle East

NEW YORK, US: Fallout from conflict in the Middle East and ongoing fighting in Syria are having a devastating impact on civilians inside the country, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

2024-02-29 13:18:54 0 Comment 103699 view