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Noboa’s Ecuador: Is this what ‘partnering’ with the US looks like?
Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has used his country’s spiraling security crisis to tighten his grip on power. Under the banner of the “war…
US, Russia test ICBMs as nuclear talks end in deadlock
This month, as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose…
Dying in Diesel protests: Africa slammed by Iran war energy crisis
Beginning last week, waves of protesters taking part in nation-wide strikes gathered on the streets of Nairobi to demand the Ministry of Energy…
Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
On May 22, the first train of Bogota’s new metro system made its initial trial run on the 15-mile elevated viaduct for Line…
The US suggests it might dump talks as Russia escalates war
The warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the U.S. and European governments to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Kyiv before…
Iran to Israel: You hit Lebanon, and we’ll hit the UAE
Despite the ceasefire and tentative progress toward a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, the Persian Gulf has remained perilously volatile. In…
Trump’s intensified airstrikes in Nigeria are strategically pointless
On May 19, a press release from the Nigerian military proclaimed that, in a joint operation with the United States, it dealt a…
Fiber-optic drones show profound limits of ‘cutting-edge’ weapons
“Birds in Ukraine are building nests from drone cable.” The headline itself tells a story, but the subsequent article in The Sunday Times…
More Iran war? There goes the neighborhood, and world economy.
For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about…
How comics taught us how to love and hate war for nearly a century
When it comes to propaganda, no weapon is left on the table. Film, radio, the internet, and print have all been enlisted to…
