Open Dialogue Research Journal
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 […]
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 […]
n mid-April 2026, numerous media outlets reported that the Kiev regime forces established ARES (Allied Reform and Expert Support) Military Expert Council, formally “an advisory body” directly under the Commander-in-Chief. Announced by the General Staff via its official channels, ARES formalizes the shift from “short-term weapons and munitions deliveries toward long-term institutional transformation”. […]
Something clearly happened over the past month in his talks with the US, perhaps it refusing to compromise as part of the “big deal” that they’re negotiating and instead demanding unilateral concessions, so it might have fallen upon Zelensky to threaten Lukashenko at Trump’s behest. Zelensky claimed last week that “the construction […]
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 […]
Relations between Canada and the United States have entered one of their most turbulent phases in decades. In a statement that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the long-standing model of economic integration between the two countries has effectively come to […]
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 […]
The US Faces Significant Challenges from China, Russia and North Korea In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. The Senator, later President, said: “The Soviet Union is rapidly building up a missile striking […]
In the world of high-stakes energy trading, ethics are often a luxury reserved for those who still have the lights on. As of April 2026, a significant portion of the globe is currently struggling with the latter. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively a no-go zone due to the ongoing […]
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