In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Paddy O’Connell, Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book, Signs from the Future, examining Donald Trump’s political legacy, the decline of the liberal international order and the
Julián Casanova has spent much of his career examining the violence that shaped modern Europe, from the Russian Revolution and anarchism to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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In Moscow, the mood is increasingly uneasy. “I don’t understand anything. Last week everything was normal in Moscow, and suddenly there is no petrol and you have to queue for an hour
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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday that peace could only be secured through strength, as he visited a sensitive frontline island to commemorate a pivotal battle with Chinese forces almost seven
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An August 1931 encounter in Rome left Heinrich Brüning, Germany’s chancellor, visibly dispirited. According to Erwin Planck, an Oberregierungsrat in the Reich Chancellery, the impression made on Brüning by Benito Mussolini was
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan is no longer defined by the nationwide war that consumed it for two decades. The Taliban controls the country, large-scale fighting has receded,
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“The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Colombia’s decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the
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The warning comes as tensions between the Ethiopian Government’s National Defense Force (ENDF) and the ethno-nationalist Tigray’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have escalated in recent weeks, with a drone strike on the city
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The White House personnel report lists Natalie Harp as a special assistant and personal aide to the US president, with an annual salary of $150,000. On paper, it is a significant position.
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For centuries, the Arctic was less a highway than a barrier. European explorers searched for a northern maritime passage to Asia from the 1500s onwards, repeatedly confronting ice, distance and extreme conditions.
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Qatar has slashed government department budgets by up to 30 per cent and cut funding for overseas aid by about 85 per cent as the US-Israel war against Iran inflicts a sharp
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Germany and four other European Union member states are negotiating with Rwanda over the establishment of centres for rejected asylum seekers, as European governments seek new ways to implement deportations outside the
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Recently on Canadian Prepper, Nate and I discussed the dangers in Putin’s patience with an ever-widening war and the puzzle that Putin prefers the risk of these dangers to quickly winning the
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Trump offered to scale down the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise (carried out annually by the US Forces in Korea (USFK) and Republic of Korea (ROK) military). In Trumpian style, the decision was
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US prosecutors have charged a woman with allegedly plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol, kill lawmakers and then leave the country to join Islamic State, in a case that authorities
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Japan is preparing to give its military and police new powers to counter cyberattacks at their source, marking a significant expansion of the country’s security posture and raising questions about the limits
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