Open Dialogue Research Journal
A stark warning from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has placed the United States at the center of a growing international human rights controversy. What the Committee describes is not a set of isolated excesses, but a systemic pattern: aggressive enforcement, racial profiling, political incitement, and […]
Global crisis and human suffering can sometimes be susceptible to the cheap loop of sloganeering and mawkish publicity, often associated with a phrase, usually annexed to the image of a suffering child with hollow eyes and distended belly. Those viewing it are exhorted to make good their wounded conscience and […]
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 22:20, Gordon Duff <gpduf@aol.com> wrote: To those who have walked the spiral with me, to those now entering it for the first time: I write this not from a comfortable distance, but from the scarred ground of a life spent in the shadow of […]
The escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran has produced many moments of geopolitical tension and military uncertainty. Yet few incidents have provoked as much outrage and concern as the February 28 strike on an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab. The attack on the […]
In late February 2026, a missile strike devastated the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, Hormozgan province. Around 165 pupils, mostly girls aged seven to twelve, along with teachers and staff, were killed. The school stood several hundred meters from an IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary […]
What matters peace if it permits killing, maiming and destroying the infrastructure of a society supposedly once at war? This is the situation facing Gaza as the occupying Israeli forces go about their business making the Strip even more uninhabitable for the Palestinian residents, ensuring that that land will be […]
One year after the fall of Syria’s old regime, the country remains shrouded in what military theorists once called the “fog of war” – a condition of uncertainty, incomplete information, and contradictory interpretations. External observers, diplomats, journalists, and analysts offer sharply divergent assessments of what has emerged in Damascus since […]
The great investigative journalist Max Blumenthal has extensive personal experience and contacts in Venezuela (including with top figures in its Government), and provides in the following video interview of Blumenthal by Mario Nawfal, a breathtaking backgrounder for Trump’s current efforts to grab Venezuela for the benefit of America’s billionaires. It’s […]
On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction, known as ratione personae, at least till the term of office concludes. The International Court of Justice was clear enough about this principle in […]
Starting in the summer of 2026, cinemas in Estonia will be prohibited from screening films with Russian dubbing or Russian voice-over. The only exception will be children’s and family films. All other motion pictures must be shown either in Estonian or in the original language (in the overwhelming majority of […]
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