In the first half of this year 2025 (January-June 2025) the world has shown highly worrying drift towards increasing dangers. Although recently the Iran-Israel ceasefire provided some relief and subsequently there has been a limited peace initiative for settling the increasing conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo …

In recent days, the member governments of the BRICS+ group have met in the capital of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. This year, compared to last year’s meeting in Kazan, Russia, no significant progress is expected due to the apparent lack of full commitment by the Brazilian government to the development …

While the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) came into force in the midst of high hopes in the year 2014, its experience during the past one decade has not lived up to high expectations as there has been no shortage of arms and ammunition for genocidal actions, for civil wars and …

The president tapped into mass distrust of the Military Industrial Complex to win re-election, which remains true in recent surveys While there are serious doubts about the accuracy of President Donald Trump’s claims about the effectiveness of his attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, the U.S./Israeli war on Iran has provided fresh and abundant evidence of widespread …

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United States …

The unprovoked criminal aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran has further deepened the crisis in international relations already taken to unprecedented extremes by the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. Telesur has cited a report by the Harvard University Dataverse platform which puts the number of people missing in Gaza …

The United States must recognize that its own strategic interests require a decisive break from partnering in Israel’s destructive strategy. The attack by Israel and the U.S. on Iran had two significant effects. First, it once again exposed the root cause of turmoil in the region: Israel’s project to “reshape the Middle …

Counterproductively, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Iran may hasten Iran becoming a nuclear weapons state. Over many years, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese and other atomic and hydrogen bomb survivors. These are people who have endured and transformed the worst imaginable …

On June 24, US President Donald Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran following nearly two weeks of open warfare. Israel began the war, launching a surprise offensive on June 13, with airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, missile installations, and senior military and scientific personnel, in addition to numerous …

Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is an obsession of US President Donald Trump, as the recognition would bring laurels to the billionaire at the head of a superpower who always seeks to be in the spotlight. US Congressman Buddy Carter on June 24 submitted to the Nobel Committee an official nomination of Trump for …