Trump’s War on Birthright Citizenship
Like father, like son. In 1927, as America struggled with its latest massive surge of non-Protestant and non-English or non-German…
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Fighting Islamophobia with Islamofactism: A New 10-Part Series
A weaponized word can darken and even destroy those who fall within its umbra and penumbra. In fact, prior to…
Can ASEAN Afford Silence on Russia’s New Eurasian Playbook?
In July 2025, Russia became the first country to formally recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, an audacious diplomatic move that shifts…
From Democratic Stronghold to Far-Right Alliance
Once a bastion of European unity and a champion of centrist democracy, the European People’s Party (EPP) is undergoing a…
The Challenging Path to Reviving US Deterrence
What America wouldn’t give to turn back the clock to February 23, 2022, and make a bold, controversial and possibly…
Why Nuclear Deterrence Will Remain
The dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, was a key event…
The Aftershocks of the USAID Dismantlement on the Future of Blended Climate Finance
The gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has sent shockwaves through the global development community, particularly…
Insights from the World Bank Chief Economist
Populism has reemerged as a central force in the global political economy, disrupting longstanding assumptions about economic governance, institutional design…
Do Google, Microsoft, Starbucks Make Billions of Dollars by Avoiding Taxes?
Nicolas J.S. Davies” post_date=”September 22, 2025 06:19″ pUrl=”https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/middle-east-news/fo-talks-did-the-us-and-israel-lie-about-iran-building-nuclear-weapons/” pid=”158103″ post-content=” Fair Observer’s Chief Strategy Officer, Peter Isackson, speaks with CODEPINK…
The ASEAN-GCC-China Summit Marks the Transformation of China’s Diplomatic and Economic Strategies
At the end of May, I traveled to Malaysia to attend the ASEAN-GCC-China Summit. Although the official agenda centered on…