Autor: pacifista

With the abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, the United States under Donald Trump is returning to a power-based logic of influence in Latin America—one that many in the region believed had long been overcome. In this interview, political scientist Ulrich Brand analyzes why Latin America is once again becoming a geopolitical priority in the…

We, the undersigned organizations and movements committed to social justice, democracy, and international law, grounded in anti-imperialist struggle and peoples’ sovereignty, unite in unequivocal condemnation of the recent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the constitutionally recognized President of Venezuela, by armed forces acting on behalf of the United States government. This act constitutes an expression of…

The U.S. government has the world’s most expensive military waging wars around the world. It also now has a military aimed at the United States itself. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has a budget larger than any military in the world except 12. It has military weaponry and vehicles. It has military training from the…

The demolition and subsequent burning of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem, carried out by Israeli authorities on 20 January 2026, do not constitute an isolated episode nor a simple administrative dispute. It is an act that goes beyond the…

Not all decisions of power are explained by the logic of security, nor even by strategic interest. Some obey a more primitive impulse: punishment. The migration offensive deployed in Minneapolis at the beginning of January does not respond to a demographic emergency, an exceptional criminal threat, or a verifiable operational necessity. It responds to something…

On 22–23 January, SIPRI collaborated with the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA) at Nagasaki University and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) to organize a conference in Geneva.

(Poseur-buyer offered to serve as reseller) 27 January 2026, Quezon City.  Imported skin-lightening products flagged by the national government for being sold without market authorization or for containing mercury are being sold in Naga City in blatant violation of the law. “The brazen trade of contraband cosmetics with mercury content in Naga City and other…

Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” built around heads of state, including Russia, is structurally ill-suited to end the Israel–Hamas war and to govern postwar Gaza in any sustainable way At a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump unveiled his newly formed Board of Peace to end the Israel-Hamas war. During a…

Peering out from the United States, it’s hard to see much of China. One learns general facts and gathers views from a small number of people. But I can’t make a lot of sense out of this 4% of humanity over here (or myself for that matter), and don’t have much hope at all for…

To understand political events, it is important to approach them from a historical perspective, but things change rapidly, and we must also adapt to the present. This requires grounding our thinking in the current circumstances. The historian’s perspective, essential for putting things into context, can and should be complemented by analyses that demonstrate a concern…