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• Australia and Japan are Ditching US Empire | Prof. Warwick Powell

  Dr. Warwick Powell argues that recent visits and diplomatic gestures by Australia and Japan signal a pragmatic reassessment of their China policies amid declining U.S. primacy in Asia. He reads Prime Minister Albanese’s China trip as symbolic and strategic: reconciling economic ties, security, and r

• The West's Ukraine Lies EXPOSED | Dr. Benjamin Abelow

  Dr. Benjamin Abelow argues that Western policy and narrative about the Ukraine war rests on a fundamental misdiagnosis: it frames Russia as an unprovoked, Hitler‑style aggressor rather than as a state reacting to perceived security threats. Drawing on historical context from Maidan to Istanbul negot

• From Election Desaster to Trade 'Deal'. Japan Gears Up For More To Come.

  Pascal Lottaz argues that last weekend’s Japanese upper‑house vote signals a substantive reconfiguration rather than a simple lurch rightward. The pick‑up by new parties—notably the anti‑immigration Sanseito—and gains by several opposition groupings reduce the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) domina

• The Plans To END The World Are REAL | Prof. Ivana Nikolić Hughes

  Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes argues that nuclear weapons constitute an existential risk that demands urgent political action rather than technical complacency. Drawing on her scientific background and teaching experience, she traces the moral imperative scientists feel about technologies that can annihi

• Historian Reveals 2000 Years Of Chinese Economic Power | Michael Pembroke

  Michael Pembroke argues that China dominates the global economy for most of the past two millennia, with the recent two centuries an aberration. Tracing Sino-Western exchange from Roman-era silk flows through Pax Mongolica, Ming maritime projection, and the 18th-century tea and porcelain boom, he em

• Europe's Destruction of Critical Academics | Prof Gerhard Mangott

  Professor Gerhard Mangott contends that contemporary European debate on Russia is narrowly policed, polarised, and increasingly intolerant of dissenting scholarly perspectives. Drawing on nearly four decades of research on the post‑Soviet space, he describes targeted online campaigns that aim to dis

• The Collective West Is Collapsing | Jeff Rich

  Jeff Rich argues that contemporary world politics reflect a deep rupture in the models that have guided analysis since 1945: realist and liberal frameworks no longer adequately explain elite-driven foreign policies, the persistence of American military primacy, or the transnational networks that “co

• Europe Get's Instructions: No Cease-Fire, Security Guarantee Play, Next Putin Meeting

  Pascal Lottaz argues that the August 18, 2025 White House meeting—initially Trump and Zelensky—became a staged “coalition of the willing” boardroom with major EU leaders, NATO and unexpectedly Finland’s Alexander Stubb. He reads the gathering as a display of U.S. dominance: Trump as boss, Europeans

• What Russia Wants / Putin-Witkoff Meeting / Summit Coming? / India, Brazil Fed Up With Tariffs

  Pascal argues that recent US–Russia diplomatic theatrics obscure substantive negotiation dynamics and misread Moscow’s public positions. He interprets the lengthy meeting between Mr. Vitkov and Vladimir Putin as evidence Moscow treats Trump’s personal envoy seriously and uses meetings to revisit his

• Trump-Putin Meeting: US Offers "Something" Substantial, Russia Supports Trump, Details Emerge

  Pascal argues that recent confirmations from Moscow indicate Washington made a substantial offer prompting Russia to agree to a bilateral summit between Presidents Putin and Trump. Drawing on Kremlin readouts and Putin’s aides, he suggests the meeting—likely in the UAE—focuses on resetting US‑Russia

• Testimony from Gaza: The Horrors and the Future of an Unbroken People | Prof. Ziad Medoukh

  Prof. Ziad Medoukh presents a first‑hand account of Gaza’s sustained devastation and civilian suffering, stressing five core conditions: relentless bombardment, massive infrastructure destruction (about 85% of Gaza), acute shortages of medicine, food and water, emergent famine—especially in northern

• Dr. Jan Oberg: If You Want Peace, Be Creative And Focus On The Future

  Dr. Jan Oberg argues that Europe’s escalating militaristic rhetoric reflects a deeper failure of imagination and practice in peace scholarship and politics. Grounding his argument in peace-research traditions (diagnosis, theory, values), he contends that critics too often stop at denunciation rather

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