Category: World
Financing Africa’s Digital Future: Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding
Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach. To bridge…
Trump’s Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality
On June 26, two official delegations — one from Israel and one from Lebanon — signed a framework agreement with great fanfare in…
How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.
Israel is spending wads of cash on public diplomacy in a desperate attempt to reverse waning American support for the country after it…
Houthis v. Saudi Arabia: Round 2. This time it’s regional.
On July 28, Saudi air defenses shot down drones launched from Iraqi territory by “Iran-affiliated terrorist militias,” a Saudi ministry of defense statement…
Preparing Agriculture for a New Era of Extreme Weather
Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations put out an alert, warning countries around the world about an impending new…
A New Wave of “Communist” Hysteria is Threatening to Spread Across US Politics
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican of Kansas) rose to public attention in the 1950s with his allegations that hundreds of “Communists” had infiltrated…
The United Nations in a Time of Opportunity & Uncertainty: a Time to Choose
On 15 September 1953, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India was elected the eighth president of the UN General Assembly — the first woman…
Ukraine’s ‘turned tide’ doesn’t comport ‘with basic military reality’
Encouraged by Ukraine’s sustained advances in drone warfare, Western media is abuzz with the idea that Kyiv just might be able to defeat…
Trump’s favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras
Former President Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted drug trafficker pardoned by President Donald Trump last December, flew triumphantly home to Honduras on Sunday…
Zelensky’s dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington, much indicates that he is no longer merely trying to draw greater American support into its…
