Open Dialogue Research Journal
Nearly fifty days of conflict linked to the Iran war have produced one of the most severe energy disruptions in modern history, removing more than $50 billion worth of crude oil from global markets and sending shockwaves through economies worldwide. What began as a geopolitical confrontation at the end of […]
Unless Trump will now nuke Iran and set off a conflagration that will destroy both sides, Iran has now won America’s war against Iran; America and Israel have lost their conventional war against Iran. Explanation for this is documented at what is surely among the very best (maybe the best […]
The war launched by the United States in February has already cost Europe tens of billions of euros. The Middle East is paying in thousands of lives. The White House, meanwhile, continues to insist it acted correctly. There is a particular kind of cynicism embedded in the current architecture of […]
The measure was seen as a “threat” by the US. The current geopolitical transition process has a profound impact on how countries conduct trade. Global political decentralization – with the emergence of new regional centers of power – has the immediate consequence of giving rise to new trends in economics […]
The most comprehensive report yet that I’ve seen on this is from France 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QucZ4tIXlg “Was Donald Trump ‘blocked’ from using the nuclear codes against Iran? • FRANCE 24 English” 21 April 2026, Vedika Bahl reports, for France 24 English 0:02 2 seconds ANNOUNCER: Hi Vedika, you’re going to be talking to […]
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin Luther’s violent Protestant split from the body of the Catholic Church was merely one aspect […]
Never before has an American president exchanged such sharp public attacks with the head of the Catholic Church. The situation is all the more striking because that head is the first pope in history to come from the United States. The conflict between Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV that […]
Pope Leo XIV has entered a new and more assertive phase of his papacy, using a high-profile tour of Africa to speak forcefully on war, inequality, and global injustice. As he traveled Saturday to Luanda, the capital of Angola, for the third stop of a four-nation African visit, the pontiff […]
On Sunday, April 19th, Trump twice repeated his threat to destroy Iran: “We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE […]
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and they are not better for it. The latest – and here, the latest will become distant and dated shortly – is that the […]
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