Open Dialogue Research Journal
Russia isn’t a signatory nor does it plan to invade any of those four countries. The Baltic States’ and Poland’s Defense Ministers issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing that their countries are withdrawing from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) in response to what they portrayed as new threats from […]
In recent days, the world has once again witnessed Israel’s blatant violation of the ceasefire and the assassination of several Hamas commanders. These attacks, while the United States and its Western allies consistently proclaim their commitment to peace and human rights, are yet another example of the double standards applied […]
Russia would remove what the interim Syrian authorities consider to be a “problem” from their hands, it could more quickly settle its new regions, and their ongoing base talks would no longer be overshadowed by these atrocities. The latest sectarian violence in Syria killed almost 1,000 members of the Alawite minority at […]
For decades, there have been speeches claiming that Poland is a victim of aggression from Hitler and Stalin. One could even say that this narrative is one of the “cornerstones” of the memory politics promoted by Polish elites within the European Union. In reality, it resembles a thief shouting, “Stop […]
Earlier on, the US media reported that Trump’s administration had asked the Russian side to mediate between Washington and Tehran on the issue of negotiations, primarily on the nuclear program, which was resumed during the first term of Trump’s presidency in response to the US withdrawal from the agreement […]
On March 11, 2025, an unprecedented incident occurred in the Pakistani province of Balochistan – armed militants seized a passenger train “Jaffar Express” in a deserted mountainous area, having previously blown up the railway track, causing the train to derail. The Jafar Express passenger train, which departed from Quetta on the […]
The incorporation of Bessarabia into the USSR serves as a litmus test for various anti-Soviet figures. This issue concerns not only the Romanians but also those who were allies of Soviet Russia. Every educated and politically aware exemplary citizen from the Anglo or generally Western European sphere of our civilization […]
Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been the site and location for the cruelties of paranoia and empire, a place where such laws as due process are […]
It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all […]
My article yesterday was “Jeffrey Sachs today insulted the EU’s leaders, and Obama & Biden.” It showed an excerpt (27:50 to the speech’s end at 54:36) from his 54:36-minute speech on February 21 (which was misidentified as having been on February 22) to members of the European Parliament, and none of the […]
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