More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti doctrine, announced during the 1964 Independence Day speech, Sukarno argued that a
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In February 1963, the Iranian essayist Jalal Al-e Ahmad visited Israel and returned with a set of impressions that would shock his contemporaries and continue to unsettle readers decades later. As recounted
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Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts
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The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. There is now
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On 11–12 May, at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, French President Emmanuel Macron stood in front of more than thirty African heads of state and announced, ‘We are the true Pan-Africanists’.
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In March 2026, the European Commission’s Competition Directorate concluded a landmark probe into Google, recommending fines exceeding one billion euros for systemic breaches of the Digital Markets Act. The penalty, however, was
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A social media influencer from Azerbaijan, who entered Sri Lanka on a tourist visa, has sparked controversy after releasing a viral vlog from the Eastern Province that
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A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued a strongly worded response on May 28 to a question from KCNA regarding the recent foreign ministers’
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In her first official visit to China as Germany’s economics minister, Katherina Reiche steps into a world that is both familiar and disorienting for Europe’s industrial powerhouse. As reported by Die Ziet,
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In a candid interview published in ZEITmagazin and attributed to journalists Anna Kemper and Kilian Trotier, Heidi Klum reflects on her life, career, and the values that shaped her rise from a
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