Imagine: it’s the summer of 2025, and the United States has been surrounded by foreign military bases. The bases have been built by some antagonistic country on the other side of the world that drones on about the inevitability of war. Leaders of the nation pump...
They might wait until after Russia agrees to a ceasefire (if it ever does) since replacing him with Zaluzhny while hostilities still rage could further weaken Ukraine to Russia’s benefit. Russia’s foreign intelligence service (SVR) published a report in late July...
The Western Know-it-Alls I have some friends who pride themselves on their intake of what they consider to be a wide spectrum of opinions and sources of information. They’re intelligent people with a genuine interest in everything from politics to philosophical and...
In today’s polarized political landscape, rising leaders like Zohran Mamdani are facing fire from both extremes—the far-right and the corporate-backed centrists. Accusations of antisemitism, communism, and extremism are being hurled at him in a coordinated smear...
In March 1896, William Hechler, the Anglican chaplain at the British Embassy in Vienna, came across a book titled Der Judenstaat (The State for Jews). Hechler belonged to a centuries-old Protestant movement that aimed at gathering Jews in Palestine and converting them...
By Claudia Aranda August 1, 2025 The sky opened not only over Florida. It opened over my chest. I saw it live, on the screen, but with the intensity of someone witnessing more than a launch: a reaffirmation of what we are still capable of doing with beauty, precision,...
You will make your conflicts disappear when you understand them in their roots, not when you want to resolve them. (Principle of wise action, Silo Teachings) According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, the “worst-case famine scenario...
I ADDRESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT: While Brazil steps forward with decisive sanctions, President Boric’s ever-classic “let’s be cautious” reveals itself as inaction that condemns Chile to the role of a mere spectator in the historic passage of a genocide. This editorial...
“It doesn’t shine like gold nor smell like oil, but it’s worth more than both. And the countries that don’t control it will vanish from the new energy map.” The Resource You Can’t See, But That Powers Everything Green hydrogen cannot be seen, smelled, stored in...
It’s reshaping Indian policymakers’ views of the West and breeding resentment of their governments among its society. India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin recently published an informative opinion piece at NDTV titled “Tariff Blitz: Is...
This morning, 18-year-old Ayana Gerstmann and Yuval Pelleg refused to enlist in the Israeli military. Gerstmann was sentenced to 30 days in military prison, and Pelleg was sentenced to 20 days. Before entering the Tel HaShomer enlistment base, Mesarvot Network held a...
by George Banez “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” Says Juliet to lover Romeo whose family name betrays him as nemesis to her own. She convinces him that their love transcends labels. And that meanings imputed by...