Global Voices

Non-alignment once carried enormous moral prestige. For newly independent states emerging from colonial rule, it was not just a foreign policy, but a fierce declaration of identity. However, the international system has fractured. Global politics is no longer divided into...

Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rights Myanmar’s military regime is expanding its ban on the distribution of period products, claiming they are being used to treat wounded resistance fighters, according to...

I’ve long been an industrial policy enthusiast. My favorite popular nonfiction book is Joe Studwell’s “How Asia Works”, a synthesis of decades of research about the economic miracles in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. I wrote a whole series of posts examining the...

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky recently announced that ground robots (also known as unmanned ground vehicles) had captured a Russian position. Zelenskyy said it was the first time in the Ukraine war that an enemy position had been taken exclusively by...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi has strongly denounced the Israeli reestablishment of the illegal Sanur settlement in Jenin, calling the step a “dangerous escalation targeting the Palestinian presence in the occupied West Bank.” In a statement on Sunday, Mardawi...

Tensions between the US and Iran continued to escalate on Monday after Tehran said it has no plans to send officials to Pakistan for talks with Washington, following the seizure of an Iranian ship. It comes after President Donald Trump...

On April 17, the first day of the Myanmar New Year, Win Myint walked out of Taungoo Prison. He had been arrested in the small hours of February 1, 2021, the morning the military seized power from the government he...

The Iran war has delivered a profound and systemic shock to the Gulf, fundamentally challenging two assumptions that have underpinned regional stability for the better part of a century. For decades, the Gulf’s economic model thrived on a perception of...

When US President Donald Trump said, “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight,” he hardly knew the profundity of his words. Iran, formerly Persia, has a history that goes back at least 7,000 years, and has a long list of great...

The balance between relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran remains a key element of Pakistan’s foreign policy, as the country seeks both to strengthen strategic partnerships and to preserve its role as a mediator in the tense geopolitical environment of...

A quiet vulnerability sits at the heart of American health care. The United States — home to the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical sector — depends heavily on China for the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to manufacture its medicines. How heavily...

Jubilation is turning to disenchantment as young activists arrested after protest calling for election date to be set The arrest of several protesters in Madagascar has increased fears among young people that the military regime that took power last year after...

Why the real contest is no longer about crypto enthusiasm, but about payment rails, trade finance and the architecture of cross-border liquidity The loudest reading of stablecoins is still the wrong one. They are not becoming important because cryptocurrency has...

The night before l voted against going to war in Iraq, my sister, Beverly, told me that a Knoxville television station had run a poll and found that in East Tennessee, 74 percent were in favor of going to war,...

Our unhinged megalomaniacal POTUS was at it again today, claiming to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his first year was nothing short of spectacular: Trump: “I had the greatest year, the greatest opening year. I ended 8 wars. The greatest...

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its allies have long been considered one of the strongest lobbies in Washington, exercising outsized influence, especially on U.S. policies toward Israel and the Middle East. Recently, its purported muscle has come under...

Federal prosecutor says woman is suspected of dealing weapons to Africa on behalf of Iranian government A California woman was arrested at Los Angeles international airport after allegedly trafficking weapons on behalf of the Iranian...

Iran says it has no plans to negotiate with the US after President Donald Trump threatened Sunday that “the whole country is going to get blown up” if Iran refuses to make a deal. There are conflicting reports on what Trump subsequently described...

GAZA, (PIC) Ongoing violations by Israeli occupation forces of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip since early Sunday have resulted in the killing of three Palestinians and the injury of several civilians, amid a continued tight blockade affecting more than...

SambaNova Systems and Intel have introduced a blueprint for heterogeneous inference that reflects a significant shift in how modern large language model (LLM) workloads are deployed. Instead of relying on a single accelerator type, the proposed architecture assigns different...

With over two decades of experience bridging technology and business, Johan Wadenholt Vrethem focused on harnessing AI to transform how organizations operate and engage with their customers. After leading critical digital initiatives and client engagements in the banking and finance...

The president said there will be ‘NO MORE MR. NICE GUY’ Read Article HERE This is an image from the Tasnim News Agency website, which states in its footer, “All Content by Tasnim News Agency is licensed under...

Israel is reportedly making preparations to strike Iran's energy facilities amid concerns that the US and Iran will resume hostilities after the current ceasefire ends on Wednesday. Israeli news outlet Maariv reported on Sunday that the...

The Israeli military published for the first time a map of its new deployment line inside Lebanon on Sunday, bringing dozens of mostly abandoned Lebanese villages under its control , days after a ceasefire with Hezbollah took...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that the military had been instructed to use "full force" in Lebanon - even during the ongoing ceasefire - should Israeli troops "face any threat". "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Former US Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging the US into its war with Iran. In response to a question on the war at a Democratic Party...

Spain will ask the European Union to end its association agreement with Israel over violations of international law, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday. Spain has criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the war...

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called for pressuring the Israeli occupation government to honor its obligations under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement in order to pave the way for serious talks on issues related to the second...