Global Geopolitics

Women ‘Sewing’ a Bright Future in Northern Pakistan

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
At 46, Naseema Nashad is starting her life over, not out of choice but out of necessity. The Afghan woman was just 25 years old when Taliban militants stormed Kabul and her family was forced to flee to neighbouring Pakistan to escape what they knew would be a brutal regime.

OPINION: Global Citizenship, A Result of Emerging Global Consciousness

By Arsenio Rodriguez
Globalisation is an integral feature of modernity. It already has significantly advanced to transform local experiences into global ones, to unify the disparate villages of the world into a global community, and to integrate national economies into an international economy.

Attack on French Magazine a “Black Day” for Press Freedom

By A. D. McKenzie
“They are cowards who react to satire by going for their Kalashnikovs.” That was how renowned French cartoonist Plantu described the killers of 10 media workers and two policemen in Paris Wednesday.

The Day CIA Failed to Un-beard Castro in His Own Den

By Thalif Deen
The controversial low-brow Hollywood comedy, 'The Interview', portrays the story of two U.S. talk-show journalists on assignment to interview Kim Jong-un - and midway down the road are recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to poison the North Korean leader.

OPINION: Political Islam and U.S. Policy in 2015

By Emile Nakhleh
This year, Arab political Islam will be greatly influenced by U.S. regional policy, as it has been since the Obama administration came into office six years ago. Indeed, as the U.S. standing in the region rose with Obama’s presidency beginning in January 2009, so did the fortunes of Arab political Islam.

OPINION: Sabotaging U.S.-Cuba Détente in the Kennedy Era

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr
I grew up in Hickory Hill, my family’s home in Virginia which was often filled with veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. 

OPINION: Doubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East

By Amanda Ufheil-Somers
For a moment, four years ago, it seemed that dictators in the Middle East would soon be a thing of the past.

OPINION: JFK’s Secret Negotiations with Fidel

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr
On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, one of his emissaries was secretly meeting with Fidel Castro at Varadero Beach in Cuba to discuss terms for ending the U.S. embargo against the island and beginning the process of détente between the two countries.

OPINION: Quo Vadis? Post-Benghazi Libya

By Christopher Occhicone
A concerted disinformation campaign is being conducted to manufacture consent for military action against the government in Tripoli and the town of Misrata, which has been at the forefront of toppling the despotic Gaddafi dictatorship.

Oil Price Plunge Could Take a Bite from Arms Budgets

By Thalif Deen
In a satirical piece titled 'An Unserious Look at the Year Ahead' in the Wall Street Journal last week, Hugo Rifkind predicts the price of a barrel of oil will fall so low that people across the world would start buying oil for the barrel - and throw the oil out.

Pakistan’s Tribal Areas Demand Repatriation of Afghan Refugees

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
They number between two and three million; some have lived in makeshift shelters for just a few months, while others have roots that stretch much further back into history. Most fled to escape war, others simply ran away from joblessness.

U.S. Twists Arms to Help Defeat Resolution on Palestine

By Thalif Deen
The United States re-asserted its political and economic clout - and its ability to twist arms and perhaps metaphorically break kneecaps - when it successfully lobbied to help defeat a crucial Security Council resolution on the future of Palestine this week.

Guantánamo Paradoxes Tested in Uruguay

By Diana Cariboni
In the summery afternoon of a beachside neighbourhood not far from the Uruguayan capital, nothing could sound more unusual than the Muslim call to prayer chanted by Tunisian Abdul Bin Mohammed Ourgy, a few days after being freed from the United States military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba.

Thaw with U.S. Finds Transformed Civil Society in Cuba

By Patricia Grogg
The normalisation of relations between Cuba and the United States opens up a new path of “readjustments not free of risks”, which forms part of the process of “national transformation” ushered in by Raúl Castro, said Lenier González, one of the creators of the citizen initiative Cuba Posible.

OPINION: We Have So Much to Learn From Cuba

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than five decades of a misguided policy which my uncle, John F. Kennedy, and my father, Robert F. Kennedy, had been responsible for enforcing after the U.S. embargo against the country was first implemented in October 1960 by the Eisenhower administration.

Pakistan’s “Other” Insurgents Face IS

By Karlos Zurutuza
The media tend to portray Balochistan as “troubled”, or “restive”, but it would be more accurate to say that there´s actually a war going on in this part of the world.

Cuba and United States Now Foment Moderation in the Americas

By Mario Osava
With the decision to reestablish diplomatic ties, Cuba and the United States, polar opposites that have long inspired or fomented extremism of different kinds in the Americas, have now become factors of moderation and pragmatism.

What the U.S. Should Learn from Russia’s Collapse

By Miriam Pemberton
After months of whispered warnings, Russia’s economic troubles made global headlines when its currency collapsed halfway through December. Amid the tumbling price of oil, the ruble has fallen to record lows, bringing the country to its most serious economic crisis since the late 1990s.

The Day Anti-Castro Forces Tried to Bomb the U.N.

By Thalif Deen
When the politically-charismatic Ernesto Che Guevera, once second-in-command to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, was at the United Nations to address the General Assembly sessions back in 1964, the U.N. headquarters came under attack - literally.

U.S. Flag Can Be Seen Again in Cuba

By Patricia Grogg
The announcement that the United States and Cuba would reestablish diplomatic relations took most Cubans by surprise. Over half of the population was born after the severing of ties in 1961 and the start of the embargo that has marked their lives.

Europe Dream Swept Away in Tripoli

By Karlos Zurutuza
It's easy to spot Saani Bubakar in Tripoli´s old town: always dressed in the distinctive orange jumpsuit of the waste collectors, he pushes his cart through the narrow streets on a routine that has been his for the last three years of his life.
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