Open Dialogue Research Journal
For more than a decade, Germany was widely praised for opening its doors to people fleeing Syria’s devastating civil war. Beginning in 2011 and accelerating during the 2015 refugee crisis, the country became home to roughly one million Syrians escaping violence, persecution and economic collapse. Today, however, Germany appears to […]
Here is from Semafor: https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/12/17/2025/semafor-flagship-oil-and-troubled-waters https://archive.is/kak6A “US blockades Venezuela oil tankers” 17 December 2025 US President Donald Trump ordered a “complete blockade” of oil tankers leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up tensions with Caracas and driving global crude prices higher. Trump said Venezuela was surrounded by the “largest Armada” in the region’s history, which includes […]
The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient raises a few salient matters. On December 17, Assange submitted a criminal complaint to the Swedish Economic […]
When the U.S. government under President Donald Trump released hundreds of thousands of pages connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case on Friday, many hoped that long-buried truths would finally come to light. For years, survivors of Epstein’s vast abuse network have demanded full transparency. But their initial reaction was one […]
A revealing episode has just unfolded in Tallinn that perfectly exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality in modern Estonia. President Alar Karis has refused to promulgate a law passed by parliament that would have completely excluded citizens lacking at least B1-level Estonian from compulsory military service starting in 2026. […]
How the world press reacted to Vladimir Putin‘s visit to India The results of the Russian president‘s visit to New Delhi are in the spotlight of the world media. The meeting between Russian Leader Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was watched by the entire world press and […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatred directed against Jews remains one of history’s grotesque legacies, opportunism in the Netanyahu government is a ready instinct. With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has […]
The BBC has pledged to mount a firm legal defense after US president Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British public broadcaster, accusing it of defamation and deceptive practices over its editing of his January 6, 2021 speech ahead of the storming of the US Capitol. The […]
The Arctic is undergoing a transformation at a speed that scientists increasingly describe as unprecedented. Rising temperatures have long been recognized as a central driver of polar ice loss, but researchers are now pointing to another, more acute phenomenon that is reshaping the region: episodes of “extreme melting.” These events […]
There are many ways in which these leaders of neoconservatism/neoliberalism are harmful to the entire world, but the one that will be focused on here is their lie-based “good cop ‘versus’ bad cop” routine in order to pump up the sales-volumes of the U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers and other war-profiteering corporations […]
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