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  • South Africa

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    Paddy Donnelly obituary

    My husband, Paddy Donnelly, who has died aged 70, was a South African who moved in the early 1980s to London. There he worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF), which funded the legal…

  • Economics

    Robin McAlpine – Because we forgot how to fight

    A 40 year campaign to make you believe that monopolies are just an aspect of nature has led us to believe that you can’t do anything about them. This is total nonsense and all we have to do is remember. Robin McAlpine is…

    10 min read

  • Activism

    Actually, the Acton Ad Isn’t a New Low

    There is no floor to what the modern Republican Oarty will turn into a political attack. On Oct. 19, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign released an ad featuring the mother of his opponent, Dr. Amy…

    3 min read

  • Geopolitics

    Trita Parsi: Israel’s New – and Terrifying – Security Doctrine

    If you read one thing today, make sure it is this Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Parsi’ Substack In a stunning piece…

    3 min read

  • Aid

    Peace Needs Children’s Voices

    8 November 1996 Graca Machel (left), former Minister of Education of Mozambique and the Secretary-General's appointed Expert on the Impact of Armed Conflict of Children, presents her report titled "The United Nations…

    5 min read

  • Analog Bits

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    Inside the Silicon: Analog Bits N2P2 Test Chip

    The future of intelligent computing depends on silicon that delivers more performance within tighter power and thermal limits. Combining TSMC’s advanced process technology with Analog Bits’ analog and mixed-signal…

  • Africa

    Deported to Liberia, Again

    In 1816 , a group of white people in the U.S. created the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (later simply the American Colonization Society), aimed at resolving the “problem”…

    8 min read

  • Activism

    Thomas Piketty and the Twilight of Macronism

    The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Earlier this week, the eminent economist Thomas Piketty published a short intervention on the ongoing youth-led protests across France, which he dubs “the…

    5 min read

  • Opinion

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    Russia and Israel Mark 35 Years of Restored Diplomatic Relations

    October 18, 2026, marks the 35th anniversary of the full restoration of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Soviet Union, with the Russian Federation acting as its legal successor. Over the last three and a half…

  • CNI Authors

    A New Washington Colossus

    Trump’s vision of “his” federal capital continues to irritate The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge…

    8 min read

  • CNI Authors

    Another Week of Dangerous Nonsense from Donald Trump

    Will snipers shoot American tourists in Washington? It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic. Last…

    7 min read

  • CNI Authors

    America’s National Security Scam Rolls On

    Who is doing what to whom? Once upon a time the United States of America was confident that it, shielded by broad oceans to the East and West and having friendly countries that it dominated economically and militarily to…

    9 min read

  • CNI Authors

    When Will This White House Madness End?

    The United States competes with Israel for the “Most Hated” Distinction It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that…

    7 min read

  • CNI Authors

    Trump and Netanyahu Want to “Finish the Job” on Iran

    How many more innocent people will die? If one were seeking to create something like a modern-day folk tale based on current realities and having the theme of “good versus evil” there are any number of real-life…

    7 min read

  • CNI Authors

    Are the United States and Israel in Decline-and-Fall Mode?

    The horrors deliverable by Israel that might come next Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States’ model of global dominance which emerged as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly…

    9 min read

  • Human Rights

    The Next Minab

    On a recent Piers Morgan show , the guest was Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist. The subject was a set of wars that now feed each other: Russia and Ukraine, the Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the United…

    8 min read

  • Canada

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    Canada’s Plan B: Hedging Beyond the United States

    In September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke of building a “unique alliance” between Canada and the European Union. Reports around the discussions went further, raising the possibility of some form of…

  • Always-at-war

    The US should stay out of Saudi Arabia’s war

    After a four year truce, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have returned to open conflict in Yemen. Last month, the Saudis conducted over 250 air raids that killed over 150 civilians according to the Yemen Data Project, while…

    3 min read

  • Locations

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    American Oligarchy: When Billionaires Bankroll Democracy

    America still gives every citizen one vote, but its billionaires are spending fortunes to determine which political choices voters get to make. The Billionaire Election Machine With the November 3 midterm elections…

  • 90 Years Latter The New Long March

    90 Years Latter The New Long March China Bet on Adaptation Over Dogma Commemorating the Long March is less an exercise in historical memory than an examination of strategic discipline. As emphasized in Xi Jinping’s…

    8 min read

  • Commentary

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    Deception in Mass Autonomous Warfare

    “[T]he exigencies of desperate survival do stimulate wise leaders to seek such unorthodox solutions.” —Barton Whaley, StratagemOn the night of Jan. 5, 2025, my first mission in the Pokrovsk command post was to make a…

  • Opinion

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    US-China AI race turning ASEAN neutrality into a liability

    For decades, Southeast Asia has turned great-power rivalry to an economic advantage. By maintaining healthy ties with Washington and Beijing, ASEAN governments attracted investment, expanded trade and preserved room for…

  • Crime & Justice

    Were Half of Venezuela’s Oil Revenues Really Stolen? — Part II

    Boats in Villa Marina, Falcón State. Credit:Jujovar2010, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Francisco R. Rodríguez DENVER, Colorado, USA, Oct 23 2026 (IPS) Money chase So, if Venezuela claims to be importing from the…

    8 min read

  • China

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    Xi’s peace principles offer little cover for China in Africa

    On October 9, fighters from two jihadist groups clashed near Gonadaouri, in Burkina Faso’s Oudalan province, not far from the Malian border. One side belonged to Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s…

  • Congress

    If Dems win big in midterms, Hegseth's head could roll

    Democratic lawmakers have begun planning their post-midterm investigations into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose tenure has been filled with controversy. According to The Telegraph , congressional Democrats “have…

    7 min read

  • Nato

    Slouching toward Kaliningrad, NATO dismisses a nuclear threat

    During the Cold War, the exclave of West Berlin, isolated in the middle of Communist East Germany, was regarded as one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for a conflict between the Soviet Union and the West…

    7 min read

  • Japan

    Pulling back to the Second Island Chain would be strategic folly

    In a recent report , Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities called for the U.S. to end its formal security commitments to Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines and to withdraw nearly all of its forces in those…

    8 min read

  • External

    Anwar Ibrahim: The Man Who Became the Compromise

    By: Mahi Ramakrishnan Anwar Ibrahim visited Indonesia in 2015. Wikimedia photo There was a time when I thought I was witnessing a political transformation in real time. Anwar Ibrahim, a man many believed carried UMNO’s…

  • Uncategorized

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    Our Failed Constitution

    “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established…

  • Technology

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    US reinvents rare earth refining as China guards know-how

    With Beijing keeping its rare earth refining technology, equipment and technicians at home, Washington is funding private refiners to develop new ways to process the strategic metals rather than copying Chinese methods…

  • Americas

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    Emptiness and Politics: America’s Futile Faith in Elections

    “Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952) Though the dissembling “Trump Era” will end with elections…

  • External

    Desert charm, billion-rial ambitions

    Oman is a country of contrasts, where ancient traditions, dramatic landscapes and warm hospitality meet an ambitious vision for economic transformation. During my recent visit to the Sultanate, I explored Muscat, Duqm…

  • Analysis

    Rahm Emanuel’s Plan Is Exactly How Dems Will Keep Losing

    Ten years ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) articulated what would become the epitaph of his version of the Democratic Party. On the eve of the 2016 election, he insisted that “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in…

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  • Opinion

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    US Army tests Chinook helicopter landings on thinner Arctic ice

    Preparing armed forces for operations in the Arctic is becoming a central element of military planning for countries whose territories lie close to the Arctic Ocean. Vast distances and the complete absence of roads…