Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
On 4 June 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a devastating assessment of the state of the world’s food systems. According to the new estimates, which draw on data up to 2021, unsafe
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On 24 June 2026, a set of back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela, just months after the United States bombed the capital city and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly member Cilia Flores. The year
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On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative
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Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements.
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The Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had
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The Okinawan artist Kinjo Minoru is haunted by the tragedy of the 1945 Battle of Okinawan and the military occupation that has marked the island ever since. His art is informed by that sensibility.
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In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism lingers in every port and military installation, a missile struck a school
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From 29 to 31 May, forces of the South African left gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the Conference of the Left. It is important to understand the context for this meeting.
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On 15 April, I had the great honour of speaking in the Gedung Merdeka (Independence Hall) in Bandung, Indonesia. I was struck not by nostalgia, but by urgency. Bandung is not our
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There are moments in history when words lose their meaning. Not because dictionaries are rewritten, nor because language itself changes, but because political power empties words of the realities they once described.
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