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Given the officially designated “special and privileged” nature of the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership, it should be assumed that Putin didn’t authorize Lukashenko to sell high-tech military equipment to Pakistan for use against India and that he’d be appalled if Lukashenko agreed to do so. Pakistani Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu recently visited the…

Minimal democracy, maximum economic power, and a region dragged between the far right, social frustration, Indigenous peoples, and the new empires “When a democracy needs only half a point to govern one hundred percent of a fractured country, perhaps we are not facing a victory, but a crack wearing a presidential sash.” “South American democracy…

When the global community observed World Refugee Day on 20 June, a dark reality surfaced from Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh),  where the military-controlled regime in Naypyitaw emerged as a primary actor in creating refugees in their country. Various global actors claim that over 5.3 million Myanmarese people are now living in distress…

La protection de l’enfant contre les violences, les abus et les exploitations ne repose pas uniquement sur des principes généraux. Le législateur guinéen a également prévu un important dispositif répressif destiné à sanctionner les auteurs d’atteintes aux droits de l’enfant. Le Code de l’Enfant de la République de Guinée consacre ainsi plusieurs incriminations spécifiques complétées…

A few months ago, a friend forwarded me an email from an organization looking for someone to help manage four online Zoom webinars. The message was remarkably clear about the role and the responsibilities. It gave me confidence that the organizers knew what they were doing, and I recognized that I had the experience to…

As Americans and people of other former colonies recognize, there’s a great deal to be said for national independence. By Lawrence S. Wittner But, at times, we might also wonder:  is it sufficient? Until recently in human history, imperialism was widespread.  In 1939, Britain’s Empire and Commonwealth alone had direct or de facto political and…

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary—a testament to endurance, sacrifice, and democratic aspiration—it does so under a dark and foreboding shadow. At this defining moment, the nation finds itself led not by steadiness or vision, but by a figure whose erratic conduct, corrosive narcissism, and moral decay mock the very ideals this milestone…

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. By John & Nisha…

Pakistan means the “Land of the Pure.” The name carries a civilizational claim: Pakistan was ordained to protect Muslims and is superior to the Hindu-majority nation across the border. Eighty years after Partition, that claim is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions — and the evidence comes from inside Pakistan’s own administered territory.…

There is a fundamental, dramatic, and structural flaw in the bureaucratic accounts that continue to circulate regarding the massacres at sea: the idea that a decision—whether political or administrative—can override the duty to carry out a rescue at sea. To hear someone justify inaction by referring to “policy decisions,” “law enforcement operations,” or the “buoyancy”…