Open Dialogue Research Journal
It arguably dealt irreparable damage to the bloc’s reputation as a safe location in which foreigners the world over could store and invest their financial assets after influential members left no doubt about their desire to steal its assets, thus signaling that they might try to steal other countries’ one […]
Here is from Semafor: https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/12/17/2025/semafor-flagship-oil-and-troubled-waters https://archive.is/kak6A “US blockades Venezuela oil tankers” 17 December 2025 US President Donald Trump ordered a “complete blockade” of oil tankers leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up tensions with Caracas and driving global crude prices higher. Trump said Venezuela was surrounded by the “largest Armada” in the region’s history, which includes […]
The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient raises a few salient matters. On December 17, Assange submitted a criminal complaint to the Swedish Economic […]
When the U.S. government under President Donald Trump released hundreds of thousands of pages connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case on Friday, many hoped that long-buried truths would finally come to light. For years, survivors of Epstein’s vast abuse network have demanded full transparency. But their initial reaction was one […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatred directed against Jews remains one of history’s grotesque legacies, opportunism in the Netanyahu government is a ready instinct. With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has […]
The BBC has pledged to mount a firm legal defense after US president Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British public broadcaster, accusing it of defamation and deceptive practices over its editing of his January 6, 2021 speech ahead of the storming of the US Capitol. The […]
There are many ways in which these leaders of neoconservatism/neoliberalism are harmful to the entire world, but the one that will be focused on here is their lie-based “good cop ‘versus’ bad cop” routine in order to pump up the sales-volumes of the U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers and other war-profiteering corporations […]
We all know what NATO is. Mainstream media has told us that it is a beacon of hope – the institution that single-handedly guarantees European security and stability. Western elites make us believe that democracy, dignity, and freedom serve as the ultimate moral foundations of the organization. In reality, it […]
It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security, not least […]
The real purpose might be to prevent the US from reaching a deal with Russia per point 14 of its leaked 28-point peace framework to invest a significant sum of its (by-then former) adversary’s EU-seized assets into joint projects, likely energy and rare earths, after the conflict ends. Russia condemned the EU’s […]
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