Category: World
Accepting What It Cannot Control, CARICOM Focuses on What It Can
Unable to influence wars, global fuel prices or supply chain disruptions, Caribbean leaders are focusing on strengthening the systems that will make the…
Who picks up the tab for AI’s unbridled genius?
For the last few years, Artificial intelligence has been making increasingly intrusive demands for our attention. It burst onto the scene like a…
Rohingya Repatriation: A Roadmap Without a Road
The Rohingya crisis remains one of the most enduring humanitarian and political failures in South and Southeast Asia. Since the 2017 mass expulsion…
Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip
Fox News has always served as a purveyor of Republican war propaganda, but its coverage of the Iran conflict has been particularly aggressive,…
Navy retiring USS Fort Worth halfway through lifespan
This week, the Navy retired a littoral combat ship only halfway through its lifespan.The USS Fort Worth, a surface combatant ship which cost…
East Asia and Pacific Faces a USD 900 Billion Maritime Investment Challenge
East Asia and the Pacific’s (EAP) maritime system has powered the region’s rise as the world’s largest trading and manufacturing center, but the…
ARMENIA: ‘Anti-LGBTQI+ Discourse Is Increasingly Tied to Anti-democratic Narratives’
CIVICUS discusses disinformation campaigns targeting the LGBTQI+ community in Armenia with Hripsime Kizogyan, Executive Director of Pink Armenia, a community-based organisation that…
US Casualty Figures Keep Fluctuating in War with Iran
An age-old axiom in Statistics reads : Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure. And more so, in military conflicts, including the five-month-old…
Trouble in Paris? There’s a Gaullist cure for that American hubris
Last month, as world leaders prepared to gather in France for the G7 Summit, French officials had Donald Trump on the mind.Using its…
Will naming, shaming & sanctioning terror in Sudan stop bloodshed?
In June, a bipartisan group of senators introduced the Preventing External Aggression and Conflict Escalation (PEACE) in Sudan Act of 2026. In the…
