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• The Real Plan For Venezuela Is Hidden In Plain Sight | Prof. Michael Rossi

  Michael Rossi argues that the recent Venezuelan operation reveals longstanding geopolitical mechanics: U.S. interventions prioritize control over resources and compliant regimes, not democracy or human rights. Drawing on Stephen Kinzer’s account of America’s century of regime change, Rossi situates

• USA Can’t Beat China In South America | Dr. Ezequiel Bistoletti

  Dr. Ezequiel Bistoletti contends that the U.S. intervention in Venezuela reflects a broader, chaotic turn in U.S. foreign policy amid the decline of unipolarity. He frames recent actions as "blatant imperialism" and argues Washington pursues a Monroe Doctrine 3.0 aimed at reasserting regional contro

• German Guilt for 27 Million Soviet Deaths Drives EU To Next War | Ulrich Heyden

  Ulrich Heyden contends that unresolved German guilt over the 27 million Soviet war dead remains a suppressed trauma shaping contemporary German-Russian relations. Drawing on three decades as a Moscow correspondent, he links personal family histories of wartime nationalism to broader German public na

• Georgia Rejects NATO: Pro-Neutralist Party Leader Speaks | Amb. Konstatin Zghenti

  Konstatin Zhgenti argues that Georgia’s security and development are best served by a declared policy of neutrality rather than accelerated Euro‑Atlantic integration. Drawing on a 33‑year diplomatic career, he contends that neither NATO nor a transforming European Union can reliably provide the secu

• Death By Sanctions: EU Destroys German Journalist in Germany | Hüseyin Doğru

  Hüseyin Doğru contends that EU anti‑Russia sanctions are repurposed as domestic instruments of political repression, targeting journalists and activists who dissent from prevailing narratives. Doğru, a German resident sanctioned in May 2025, describes an extrajudicial process: no hearings, opaque ev

• Security of Doom: Switzerland Is Preparing NATO Membership | Christoph Pfluger

  Christoph Pfluger argues that Switzerland’s 2026 security strategy constitutes a decisive shift away from its traditional neutrality toward de facto integration with NATO and EU security structures. He warns the Federal Council’s “verzuglose Umsetzung” and quiet Friday briefing aim to create facts b

• The Psychological Roots of Political Failure | Dr. Bernhard Hommel

  At the heart of the exchange, Bernhard Hommel argues that political impasses stem less from disputed facts than from tacit “imagined human” models—naïve theories about what humans are, want, and do. Drawing on ideomotor theory and developmental research, Hommel suggests people differ in whether they

• YouTube Deleted Neutrality Studies

  Pascal Lottaz recounts an abrupt 16-hour removal and reinstatement of his Neutrality Studies YouTube channel, framing the episode as symptomatic of algorithmic content moderation’s reach and fragility. He argues the takedown—cited as “spam and deceptive practices”—likely reflected automated policing

• EU Totalitarianism: Sanctions Are Only The Beginning | Prof. David N. Gibbs

  Professor David N. Gibbs situates contemporary EU and US practices of sanctioning and branding “disinformation” within a longer history of political repression, arguing that tactics deployed since 2014–24 echo McCarthyite methods. Gibbs traces the origins to U.S. colonial surveillance in the Philipp

• EU Makes Punishment without Trial LEGAL | Dr. Alexandra Hofer

  Dr. Alexandra Hofer analyzes the EU’s expanding sanctions practice, arguing it occupies a legal gray zone where executive prerogative, preventive rationales, and human rights intersect. She explains that EU restrictive measures—now including individuals accused of “foreign information manipulation”—

• Unbroken: EU Removes His Human Rights. But He Won't Give Up | Col. Jacques Baud

  At the heart of this exchange, Jacques Baud contends that EU sanctions against him exemplify a worrying shift from law-based governance to discretionary, politics-driven coercion. Baud, a former Swiss intelligence officer and UN/NATO adviser, describes being designated under the EU’s Russia sanction

• Europe's HATE For Russia Is Destroying The Continent | Guy Mettan

  Guy Mettan contends that contemporary anti‑Russian sentiment in Europe—what he terms “Russophobia”—is a deep, historically rooted phenomenon shaped by religious schism, imperial rivalry, and shifting geopolitics. Drawing on examples from the 11th‑century Orthodox–Catholic divide through Napoleonic a

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