6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (749+ words) The rapid adoption of AI is raising concerns about reading, reasoning and intellectual autonomy – with geopolitical implications. From New York schools to China and the BRICS bloc, policymakers are beginning to consider how AI can augment rather than replace human…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (632+ words) Europe’s strategy toward Russia rests on a contradiction. Its governments speak as though they are directing the confrontation, yet they lack the military power, industrial capacity and intelligence infrastructure required to sustain it independently. Europe can escalate, but it cannot…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (247+ words) “Our objective should not be to finance the war ad vitam æternam (…), giving money that we no longer have (…) The extremely serious and worrying state of French public finances means we can’t give money without any guarantees or assurances that…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (175+ words) Lasting security arrangements arise not from shared values, but from the recognition by the parties that they cannot eliminate one another. The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 did not eliminate the confessional differences that had divided Europe during the devastating Catholic-Protestant…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1109+ words) The environmental movement used to be about protecting nature: clean rivers, clean air, fewer toxic chemicals and less destruction of the countryside. Now, apparently, we are going to save nature by digging up enormous quantities of it. Welcome to the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (721+ words) This was originally published in October 2015. People these days look at you like a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of plants or any other holistic practices. Much like anything else, there is a lot of politics and…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1685+ words) Fundamental to responsible governance is the need to ensure that the country one leads has a solid food security foundation. But by 2026, decades of neoliberal globalisation and the ‘free market’ have ruthlessly undercut the fundamental responsibility of ensuring a nation…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1708+ words) The article below was first published in 2005. Below is a detailed update followed by the original 2005 article. Author’s Note and Update The US opioid crisis broadly defined bears a relationship to the export of heroin out of Afghanistan. How will…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (118+ words) Western nations continue to provoke Russia through illegal measures against Russian vessels abroad. Now, Norway has seized a Russian ship in the Arctic, acting on a direct request from the Kiev neo-Nazi regime. Such actions are intolerable under international law…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (926+ words) Vice President JD Vance is doing a poor job of paving over the war crimes of the Trump administration. On September 1, he declared Iran is lying about the US bombing of a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed…...