Open Dialogue Research Journal
The EU’s planned creation of an Article 4-like mechanism suggests that European NATO suspects that the bloc’s American leader might not share their threat perception of whatever it may be, which can contextually only refer to Russia, that prompts at least one of them to request urgent consultations. The Financial […]
For decades, the militarization of space operated on a kind of diplomatic fiction: everyone assumed the major powers were developing weapons capable of operating in orbit, but no government had ever officially confirmed deploying them. That fiction ended last week when US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink told […]
https://www.youtube.com/live/gOxYEK8pTsw?t=164s “INTEL Roundtable: Weekly Wrap 25-SEPT” Judge Napolitano, Larry Johnson, Karen Kwiatkowski 25 September 2026 02:44 Welcome here, a pleasure, guys. Thanks very much, uh, for joining us. Larry, I have to go to you first. You just spent three weeks in Russia. You participated in, uh, academic, uh, programs. […]
Trade statistics rarely tell a dramatic story on their own, but Nigeria’s latest import figures come close. In the first quarter of 2026, China supplied N5.10 trillion worth of goods to Nigeria compared with N2.81 trillion from the United States – already a substantial gap. By the second quarter, that […]
The United States has crossed a threshold that would once have seemed almost impossible to imagine: federal debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a figure so vast that it risks becoming politically abstract in a country that has grown accustomed to trillion-dollar budgets, trillion-dollar deficits and emergency spending measured in sums […]
Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Tony Blair have met three times now—most recently in April 2025. The first two were in Dubai and Baku, during COP summits. Sherzod Asadov, Uzbekistan’s presidential press secretary, says the cooperation with Blair’s institute is “systematic“. Tashkent frames it as a push for investors, digitalisation, and clean […]
The economic and political costs are much too high, at least for the time being, to make this profitable. The South China Morning Post published an intriguing piece in late August about how China could use the Irtysh-Ob river system to connect to the Arctic Ocean via Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and […]
INTRODUCTION by Eric Zuesse I asked ChatGPT: Can you provide me a detailed list of payments (loans and donations) to Ukraine’s government by foreign Governments and by the IMF and the World Bank and other entities of the U.S. empire, ever since Obama’s coup https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/fWkfpGCAAuw on 20-27 February 2014 that […]
There’s something structurally unusual about a stock selloff triggered not by a competitor’s bad news or a disappointing earnings report, but by the industry’s own leading executives publicly warning that their product might be dangerous. That’s essentially what happened Monday, as AI-linked stocks fell across every major market – Wall […]
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 […]
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