Category: World
The Houthis Don’t Need to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Strangle the Suez Canal
With regional friction between Iran and the Gulf monarchies escalating, Houthi leadership in Yemen has proclaimed a total maritime blockade against all vessels…
What Development Looks like in Myanmar Today
When asked what development looks like today, a community leader in Kalaw township points to these fields. Once destroyed by a typhoon, they…
What a US war with Cuba would really look like
CBS News reported recently that Pentagon officials were exploring the possibility of military action against Cuba.“Military planners have in recent weeks examined a…
Aiming at the Gulf, Iran shoots itself in the foot
For decades, Iran has sought to diminish America’s military presence and political influence in the Middle East. Yet some ambitions carry within them…
Pro-Israel hawks lash out after most House Dems vote to cut aid
Public opinion on Israel is shifting rapidly, but there was little evidence of that at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday. The…
Hunger in Latin America Keeps Falling – Now Healthy Diets Must Become Affordable
Máximo Torero is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations …
Food and Transport Costs through Strait of Hormuz Remain High, Burdening Vulnerable Economies
Prior to the latest round of hostilities between the United States and Iran, freight traffic had been increasing in the Strait of Hormuz,…
As war drags on, Ukraine’s population is collapsing
As the war in Ukraine trudges through its fifth year, deaths there now outnumber births at a nearly four-to-one ratio.According to figures published…
James Woolsey, influential neocon and Iraq War booster, dies at 84
R. James “Jim” Woolsey, a major Iraq and GWOT promoter and neoconservative Democrat, passed away Tuesday at 84.Woolsey served briefly as CIA director…
Human-Caused Climate Change, Not El Niño, Drives Most Coral Bleaching Events – Research
Every morning, as the Indian Ocean retreats from the reef off Zanzibar’s Jambiani village, Chiku Chande steps into the knee-deep lagoon carrying bundles…
