During the 2000th presidential campaign, Joe Biden pledged to reunite a country divided by his predecessor, Donald Trump, and hold “summits of democracies” to launch the “Democracy vs. Autocracy” movement. Fast-forward to the present, and we witness the country polarized even more profoundly when, according to the recent Gallup poll, a record-high 80% of U.S. adults believe the country is divided on almost all essential values. Fight between Republicans and Democrats turned into Fascists and Communists when both candidates used derogatory words against each other, not worthy of respected individuals.

Until we open up our worldview and begin taking into account the needs and struggles of our fellow human beings around the world, it will be like we’re at a dinner party that’s being waited on by slaves.

Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this ancient country, flanked by the mountains and the sea in the heart of the Caucasus, is the battleground in a new Not-So-Cold War. Due to its strategic location — it shares a large border with Russia to the north — the country has found itself caught up in the geopolitical power play between the West and Russia. And just like the Euromaidan revolt in Ukraine a decade ago, Georgia’s domestic politics have been framed in Nato circles as an existential fight. On one side sits the Georgian Dream, the allegedly pro-Russian ruling party, in power since 2012. On the other sits the opposition, avowedly pro-Western and pro-EU.

Russia is being considered as a potential player in a deal to halt the conflict raging between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, leveraging its unique position to prevent an even larger-scale war from erupting across a region consumed by crisis for more than a year.

Remarks by Professor Nicolai N. Petro (University of Rhode Island), delivered at the “Reimagining Neutrality” international conference in Kyoto University, Japan, on October 25, 2024.

You still hear it every day in Washington: it is an article of faith repeated far more often and much more reverently than any liturgy or Mass in this indisputably post-Christian city. “We have an advantage that Russia and China cannot possibly hope to duplicate! “Mighty Poland and Romania – and the irresistible moral force and human capabilities of invincible Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia and countless other global giants are On Our Side! “Controlling Eastern Europe Makes Us Stronger!” There is only one problem: it isn’t true.

Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates.

Years have passed since president Joe Biden allegedly ordered the bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and the dust has long settled. We can now answer whether the reckless white house gamble to damage Moscow succeeded or not. The answer is definitive: it failed. But did the white house really commit this massive economic, political and climate crime? Well, renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh long ago concluded, with lots of insider pizazz, that it did. Much more recently, on September 26, we very nearly got a smoking gun, namely verified reports of the surreptitious presence of U.S. navy warships with their transponders suspiciously OFF, near the crime scene, four or five days before the explosion. These warships operated in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark. The captain of a small Danish port learned of this, but officials silenced him for years. Only recently could he speak out to Danish journalists.

People living in the European Union should stockpile emergency supplies in the event of war breaking out or another major emergency, a new report has advised.

Moscow appeared ripe for Western-imposed economic pain after its invasion of Ukraine but today the country is thriving