Open Dialogue Research Journal
The United States has crossed a threshold that would once have seemed almost impossible to imagine: federal debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a figure so vast that it risks becoming politically abstract in a country that has grown accustomed to trillion-dollar budgets, trillion-dollar deficits and emergency spending measured in sums […]
Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Tony Blair have met three times now—most recently in April 2025. The first two were in Dubai and Baku, during COP summits. Sherzod Asadov, Uzbekistan’s presidential press secretary, says the cooperation with Blair’s institute is “systematic“. Tashkent frames it as a push for investors, digitalisation, and clean […]
The economic and political costs are much too high, at least for the time being, to make this profitable. The South China Morning Post published an intriguing piece in late August about how China could use the Irtysh-Ob river system to connect to the Arctic Ocean via Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and […]
INTRODUCTION by Eric Zuesse I asked ChatGPT: Can you provide me a detailed list of payments (loans and donations) to Ukraine’s government by foreign Governments and by the IMF and the World Bank and other entities of the U.S. empire, ever since Obama’s coup https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/fWkfpGCAAuw on 20-27 February 2014 that […]
There’s something structurally unusual about a stock selloff triggered not by a competitor’s bad news or a disappointing earnings report, but by the industry’s own leading executives publicly warning that their product might be dangerous. That’s essentially what happened Monday, as AI-linked stocks fell across every major market – Wall […]
This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United States in two theatres of engagement. In one, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran concluded that the US had committed war […]
Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]
On March 28, 2025 a rollout ceremony took place at Lockheed Martin’s F-16 production facility in Greenville, South Carolina. Two F16V block 70 jets were ready for final testing, and the ceremony marked the formal handover to Taiwan. The Greenville ceremony was attended by Taiwan’s Defense Minister and by Taiwan’s […]
For years, Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta operated under an unusual and quietly effective arrangement: a non-aggression pact between two of the region’s dominant criminal organizations kept violence and petty crime low enough that tourism could flourish around some of the country’s most spectacular natural attractions. That arrangement has […]
Oil markets have spent months absorbing bad news out of the Middle East with relative composure, cushioned by the fact that the war between the US, Israel, and Iran hadn’t yet meaningfully disrupted the physical flow of crude. That cushion appears to be wearing thin. Brent crude climbed past $106 […]
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