/world/index.rss Read about foreign policy; world events; national security; defense spending; international law; peace and security; global alliances; sanctions; Saudi Arabia; Israel; Middle East; Iran; Iraq; Syria; Russia; China; Japan; Korea; India; European Union; Brexit; NATO; Ukraine; trade policy; war and peace; en-us Copyright 2025 | casino world | All Rights Reserved Thu, 08 May 2025 14:00:00 -0000 Gabrielle Gurley Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney displays an appreciation for the strategic value of silence during his Oval Office meeting with President Trump. /world/2025-05-08-quiet-canadian-carney-trump-meeting/ /world/2025-05-08-quiet-canadian-carney-trump-meeting/ Thu, 08 May 2025 14:00:00 -0000 Gurley-Carney WH visit 050825.jpg Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP Robert Kuttner The EU must now look to its own political and economic interests. That could be good for European values and European union. /world/2025-05-06-did-trump-do-europe-a-favor/ /world/2025-05-06-did-trump-do-europe-a-favor/ Tue, 06 May 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Kuttner-EU and Trump 050625.jpg Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP Gabrielle Gurley Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney fought off Conservative Pierre Poilievre to keep his party in power. Governing will be a challenge of a different order of magnitude. /world/2025-05-01-canada-strong/ /world/2025-05-01-canada-strong/ Thu, 01 May 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Gurley-Canada 050125.jpg Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP Daniel Boguslaw The longtime anti-communist saw programs that support overthrowing the Cuban government restored after they were initially cut off. /world/2025-04-24-gutting-usaid-marco-rubio-saved-cuban-regime-change-programs/ /world/2025-04-24-gutting-usaid-marco-rubio-saved-cuban-regime-change-programs/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:30:00 -0000 Boguslaw-Rubio Cuba 022425.jpg Nathan Howard/AP Photo Daniel Boguslaw Intelligence chief forced to disclose widespread government corruption … in China. /world/2025-04-16-director-of-national-intelligence-corruption-report-china/ /world/2025-04-16-director-of-national-intelligence-corruption-report-china/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Boguslaw-ODNI report 041625.jpg Dwi Anoraganingrum/Geisler-Fotop/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Ryan Cooper Nothing like a military crisis to break the fetish for balanced budgets. /world/2025-04-02-germany-finally-gets-over-austerity/ /world/2025-04-02-germany-finally-gets-over-austerity/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:10:00 -0000 Cooper-EU austerity 040225.jpg Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via AP Jonathan Guyer Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating Gaza. /world/2025-03-31-trump-factor-middle-east/ /world/2025-03-31-trump-factor-middle-east/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0000 APR25 Guyer home.jpg Illustration by Jan Feindt Ryan Cooper Its vast sovereign wealth fund owns nearly 36 million Tesla shares. Better get out while the getting is good. /world/2025-03-28-norways-state-investment-fund-should-dump-tesla/ /world/2025-03-28-norways-state-investment-fund-should-dump-tesla/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Tesla Norway 032825.jpg Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images Gabrielle Gurley The new Canadian prime minister, a former international banker, can handle a crisis, but he’ll have to cope with the ups and downs of retail politics on the campaign trail. /world/2025-03-14-mark-carney-knows-trade-must-master-politics/ /world/2025-03-14-mark-carney-knows-trade-must-master-politics/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:30:00 -0000 Gurley-Canada 031425.jpg Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP Ryan Cooper The shadow president is gutting America’s vast humanitarian aid system. Millions may die. /world/2025-03-03-musk-doge-pepfar-hiv-tuberculosis/ /world/2025-03-03-musk-doge-pepfar-hiv-tuberculosis/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Musk 20250228.jpg Pool via AP Ryan Cooper Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic. /world/2025-02-19-musk-trump-causing-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history/ /world/2025-02-19-musk-trump-causing-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Cooper-American empire 021925.jpg Etienne Laurent/AP Photo Gabrielle Gurley With elections upcoming, the Conservatives had started measuring the drapes, but didn’t anticipate America’s new president shattering their country’s politics. /world/2025-02-13-canadas-conservatives-crash-onset-tariff-war/ /world/2025-02-13-canadas-conservatives-crash-onset-tariff-war/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Gurley-Canadia 021325.jpg Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP Ryan Cooper The shadow president has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship, and it shows. The risk to national security is unimaginable. /world/2025-02-10-elon-musks-china-threat/ /world/2025-02-10-elon-musks-china-threat/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Musk China 021025.jpg Wang Ye/Xinhua via AP Prospect Staff Setting things straight about maps /world/2025-02-07-letter-between-friendly-nations/ /world/2025-02-07-letter-between-friendly-nations/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 FEB25 Parting Shot home.jpg JANDOS ROTHSTEIN/ISTOCK Gabrielle Gurley Justin Trudeau got himself into a fine mess, but the incoming Trump administration may be overestimating how pliable the next prime minister might be. /world/2025-01-10-canada-isnt-going-maga/ /world/2025-01-10-canada-isnt-going-maga/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Gurley-Canada Trudeau 011025.jpg Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo Daniel Boguslaw Bill Burns was America’s best diplomatic asset in the Biden years. He was also the nation’s spy chief. /world/2025-01-08-william-burns-cia-director-cooler-gifts-than-secretary-of-state/ /world/2025-01-08-william-burns-cia-director-cooler-gifts-than-secretary-of-state/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0000 Boguslaw-Bill Burns 010825.jpg Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Harold Meyerson If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time. /world/2024-12-23-biden-unpopular-check-out-fellow-leaders/ /world/2024-12-23-biden-unpopular-check-out-fellow-leaders/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:30:00 -0000 Meyerson-World leaders 122324.jpg Ben Curtis/AP Photo Sarah Leah Whitson Harris and Trump’s foreign-policy aims in the Middle East proceed from the same incentive structures and presuppositions about U.S. supremacy. /world/2024-09-27-shared-zones-of-interest/ /world/2024-09-27-shared-zones-of-interest/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0000 OCT24 Whitson.jpg NASSER ISHTAYEH/SIPA USA VIA AP Rick Perlstein For generations, we thought fear of nuclear holocaust would prevent world war. Is that faith obsolete? /world/2024-09-18-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-world-war-iii/ /world/2024-09-18-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-world-war-iii/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Infernal Triangle 091824.jpg Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Robert Kuttner Britain’s new Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has a huge majority, but defeatist constraints of his own making. /world/2024-08-27-british-preview-kamalas-challenges/ /world/2024-08-27-british-preview-kamalas-challenges/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:20:00 -0000 Kuttner-UK Starmer Harris 082724.jpg Henry Nicholls/Press Association via AP Images Harold Meyerson It puts Israel in greater peril, but it may just keep him in power—and out of the clink. /world/2024-08-05-netanyahu-regional-war-gaza-hezbollah/ /world/2024-08-05-netanyahu-regional-war-gaza-hezbollah/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:15:00 -0000 netanyahu 20240802.jpg Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo Nick Cleveland-Stout The Azerbaijani government hired Rodney Dixon to produce a report absolving the country of genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh, right before they ethnically cleansed the region. /world/2024-07-26-azerbaijans-other-unregistered-agent-washington/ /world/2024-07-26-azerbaijans-other-unregistered-agent-washington/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Cleveland-Stout-Rodney Dixon 072624.jpg Peter Dejong/AP Photo Ryan Cooper There are tentative signs that she would not indulge Israel’s war as President Biden has done. /world/2024-07-23-what-would-president-harris-do-with-gaza/ /world/2024-07-23-what-would-president-harris-do-with-gaza/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:30:00 -0000 Cooper-KH Gaza 072324.jpg Susan Walsh/AP Photo Harold Meyerson At the Republicans’ behest, Netanyahu will speak to Congress on Wednesday. What better time to figuratively cast him out? /world/2024-07-22-american-jewish-response-bibi-netanyahu/ /world/2024-07-22-american-jewish-response-bibi-netanyahu/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Meyerson-Netanyahu 072224.jpg Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Robert Kuttner France’s voters have a bare chance of keeping the far right from power, if the center and left can manage to cooperate. /world/2024-07-02-french-disconnection-elections-macron-parliament/ /world/2024-07-02-french-disconnection-elections-macron-parliament/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Kuttner-France-070224 Eliot Blondet/Sipa USA via AP Images Robert Kuttner With the ultra-hawkish senator disgraced, what’s stopping Biden from resuming normalization of relations with Cuba? /world/2024-06-25-bob-menendez-bidens-cuba-policy/ /world/2024-06-25-bob-menendez-bidens-cuba-policy/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:20:00 -0000 Kuttner-Cuba 062524.jpg John Lamparski/Sipa USA via AP Images Lucas Kunce Successive presidents have failed to pull away from the grip Big Oil has on geopolitics. It’s time for Congress to act, says this Senate candidate. /world/2024-06-25-biden-saudi-alliance-puts-america-in-danger/ /world/2024-06-25-biden-saudi-alliance-puts-america-in-danger/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:10:00 -0000 Kunce-Saudi Arabia 062524.jpg Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP Harold Meyerson How do the Dems stack up compared to U.K. Labour, the German Social Democrats, and the multiparty French left? /world/2024-06-17-democrats-and-the-euroleft/ /world/2024-06-17-democrats-and-the-euroleft/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:30:00 -0000 Meyerson-Euroleft 061724.jpg Adnan Farzat/NurPhoto via AP Uri Weltmann A Jewish-Palestinian group mobilized at the checkpoints where far-right settlers were stopping trucks carrying food—and enabled the trucks to go through. /world/2024-06-11-israel-settlers-blocking-aid-gaza/ /world/2024-06-11-israel-settlers-blocking-aid-gaza/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:10:00 -0000 Weltmann-Gaza aid 061124.jpg Courtesy Standing Together Robert Kuttner After the upcoming election, will we see a welcome shift to progressive rebuilding—or more austerity and neoliberalism? /world/2024-06-04-britains-turn-to-labour/ /world/2024-06-04-britains-turn-to-labour/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:20:00 -0000 Kuttner-UK Labour 060424.jpg Stefan Rousseau/Press Association via AP Images