Open Dialogue Research Journal
There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that […]
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 […]
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 […]
In September 2025, the U.S. military began striking boats in the Caribbean Sea—not pirate vessels or military craft, but ordinary fishing boats that, according to intelligence, were carrying cocaine. President Trump personally posted on Truth Social that the maritime flow of drugs had been stopped by 98.2%. SOUTHCOM reported victories. […]
For years, Hunter Biden occupied a unique place in American politics. To his critics, particularly within the MAGA movement, he represented everything they believed was wrong with the Biden family – a symbol of privilege, scandal, addiction, and alleged corruption. His personal struggles became campaign material, his legal problems generated […]
In a move that could significantly reshape the future of mental health treatment in the United States, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to accelerate access to psychedelic-based therapies. The order focuses particularly on ibogaine, a psychoactive substance derived from an African shrub that some researchers and veterans’ […]
The death of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervante, better known as El Mencho, marks the end of one of the most violent and powerful chapters in Mexico’s modern criminal history. Killed in a targeted operation by Mexican special forces, the 59-year-old former police officer had spent nearly two decades building and […]
Last week, two events were held in Miami at the base of the US Southern Command, as a result of which the actual US zone of influence in the Western hemisphere was increased due to the agreement of the participating partners in Washington’s new initiative. On Thursday, March 5, a […]
The Trump administration is increasingly resembling a government previously abominated by the current US president as entangling, bumbling, and prone to fantasies. President George W. Bush was well versed in baseless existential threats stemming from Mesopotamia, supposedly directed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. There was a critical problem in […]
His rhetoric aims to retain Russia’s regional influence and complicate the US’ plans there. Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia shared his country’s official response to the US’ capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. He condemned it as “a harbinger of a return to an era of lawlessness and US domination by force, chaos […]
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