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Politics in Sports: Could Exercising the Olympic “Nuclear Option” Save Humanity?

Imagine if the IOC had applied the same standards used to condemn Russia today to the US over the last 80 years for its repeated belligerence that flagrantly undermines Olympic values of harmonious development, peaceful societies and preservation of human dignity. 

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What Will the Future Look Like in the New World Order?

5 Feb 2026 - With John Mearsheimer - Donald Trump believes that U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to become a benign dictator and achieve unilateral control over USA’s allies — what will the effects of this policy be?

PAPER OF THE WEEK

A Brief History of the Enduring [66 Years] US Embargo against Cuba

US policies have focused on ensuring that Cuba is a closed commercial state, with the intent of bringing about its government eventual collapse. In that event, the US will be able to reestablish the control that it previously exerted over the island before the Cuban Socialist Revolution prevailed on 1 Jan 1959.

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

Iran, China and Russia Sign Trilateral Strategic Pact

2 Feb 2026 - In a dramatic geopolitical development today, Iran, China and Russia formally signed a comprehensive strategic pact, marking one of the most consequential shifts in 21st-century international relations, a cornerstone for a new multipolar order.

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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Mediators Propose Framework for Crucial Iran-US Talks This Week

4 Feb 2026 - Mediators from Qatar, Turkiye and Egypt have presented Iran and the US with a framework of key principles to be discussed in talks on Friday [6 Feb], including a commitment by Iran to significantly limit its uranium enrichment.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Conflicts and Persistent Human Rights Violations in Sudan and Other Regions

5 Feb 2026 - Behind this architecture of power and crossed vetoes lie concrete bodies. In Sudan, women have been systematically used as spoils of war: gang rapes, sexual slavery, abductions, and forced pregnancies form part of a pattern documented by humanitarian organizations and by survivors who, in many cases, have no access to medical or psychological care.

ENVIRONMENT

Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate

26 Jan 2026 - With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.

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Geopolitical Breach of Commitment in the Light of Divorce, Pederasty and Pedophilia

Collective Implications of Practices Dating from Ancient Greece and Rome

World Order after 1945, after Vietnam War, and after Second Coming of Trump

3 Feb 2026 - This post elaborates upon a lecture of mine on 26 Jan 2026 at a webinar in a series convened and moderated by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, which has kept alive the relevance of the Vietnam experience to current struggles.

Libya: The Difficulties of Renewal and Reform

On 3 Feb 2026, Saif Al-Islam Kadafi was killed by four men whose identity and precise motivations are not known.  However, the killing is one more sign of the difficulties of establishing a stable government in Libya since the violent death of his father Mouammar Kadafi in 2011.

Don’t Join the ‘Board of Peace’

4 Feb 2026 - Malta must not dignify Donald Trump’s empire-building by adding Malta to his list of favour-seeking satellites. "The ‘Board of Peace’ is little more than a bad joke". - Richard Rubenstein

Truth, Love & Humanity Are NOT “Western Values”: From Israel, Epstein Files and Human Rights Watch to Elite Euro-Americans

4 Feb 2026 - It is rich for the White Men (& Women) who cry "our shared 'Judaeo-Christian Civilization," in their savage wars for land and loot while lying their way to wealth & power.

I Have Seen the Collapse of an Empire

In the final years of the 20th Century I was a witness to the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Having spent up to six months at a time on many occasions from 1973 to 1986 in the Soviet Union, I saw how a great empire with alliances in most continents, came to crash from within.

The Normalisation of Atrocity

 Our grandchildren are witnesses to the blanket bombing of Gaza and to Palestinian genocide perpetrated by the descendants of Holocaust victims. They hear the silence of our political leaders and see the active complicity of Biden, Trump and successive British governments in the genocide.

BlackRock Is Buying Up the World’s Infrastructure to Serve Billionaire Oligarchs

The Real Deal Behind the Panama Canal & Greenland: The World Economic Forum's Global Model “You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy”

Michael Parenti: The War on Drugs Is a Cover for Imperialism and the CIA’s Own Drug Dealing

4 Feb 2026 - Michael Parenti's legacy is clarity. He taught that U.S. policies like the drug war are successful strategies for maintaining power and profit.

When a Backup Steals Your Life’s Work: My Experience with pCloud on macOS

5 Feb 2026 - Our readers are not used to seeing this type of article. The experience involved starting up my Mac and finding only empty folders on its desktop, i.e. the sudden loss of nearly 100,000 documents and files accumulated over decades.

The Greatest Gift, a More Human Face: Bantu Stephen Biko’s Prescription for a Divided, Selfish World in the 21st Century

“Steve Biko 1977–2026: Truth, Suppression, and the Resurrection of Justice” from Martyrdom to Legal Memory: The Reopened Inquest into Steve Biko’s Death”

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

The only Remaining US-Russia Nuclear Treaty Expires This Week

1 Feb 2026 - The New START treaty, the last remaining agreement constraining Russian and US nuclear weapons, is due to lapse on February 4. Could a New Arms Race Soon Accelerate?

On the Road to Nuclear War

On 27 Jan 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation. This grim appraisal has impressive evidence to support it. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

Australia Ignoring Moral Red Lines with Unregulated AI Warfare

3 Feb 2026 - With Australia failing to acknowledge the humanitarian risks of weaponising AI, the Australian government seems unwilling to place any limits on devastating autonomous weapons.

Meditations on a Delivery Robot Steering to Avoid a Homeless Man on the Sidewalk

3 Feb 2026 - This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civilization as it gets. This is who we are. This is where we’re at. Might as well have giant letters with a big red arrow saying “YOU ARE HERE” overtop it.

US Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love

While it’s hard to take Musk and Hegseth seriously when they talk about making Star Trek real, I don’t doubt for a minute that they can find many new ways to violate our rights and destroy what we love about the natural world.

ANGLO AMERICA

Carney and the Selective Death of the Rules-Based Order

2 Feb 2026 - While Carney pays lip service to international courts, his government in November filed a motion to dismiss a landmark court case seeking to hold Ottawa accountable for its failure to prevent Israel’s genocide arguing that the court has no jurisdiction over the “political questions” of foreign policy.

EUROPE

The Eternal Waltz of Ukrainian Graft: A Symphony of Scandals since the So-called Maidan “Revolution”

8 Feb 2026 - The Maidan “Revolution” of 2014 – that glittering spectacle of Western-orchestrated idealism, where brave souls toppled a regime only to usher in a fresh cadre of opportunists, their pockets lined with the same old promises of transparency.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

U.S. Envoys Refused to Report “Apocalyptic” Conditions in Gaza – Exclusive Photos Show the Reality They Suppressed

2 Feb 2026 - The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.

Starvation by Design: How Israel Turned Food into a Weapon of Genocide in Gaza

5 Feb 2026 - Analysis: From destroying calories to ‘re-engineering’ society, data and experts reveal how the hunger in Gaza was not a byproduct of aggression, but a calculated strategy that reached its deadliest peak in 2025.

Across the West, Speaking for Palestine Is Now a Crime

25 Jan 2026 - Exactly a year ago today, I was abducted from a Zurich street by plainclothes police, bundled into an unmarked car and taken to prison. I was walking with one of my hosts toward a venue where I was scheduled to speak at an event organized by Swiss activists about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Inside a Coordinated, Multi-Village Settler-Soldier Pogrom in Masafer Yatta

30 Jan 2026 - As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.

Meet the World’s Best Known “Antisemites”

2 Feb 2026 - I thank Dr Zachary Foster for this compilation, as well as his moral courage and intellectual integrity to speak truthfully about the Cancer of Jewish Supremacy, with a strain of White Supremacy.

‘I Cannot Help My Clients’: The Impossible Task of Representing Palestinian Detainees

27 Jan 2026 - With Israel running its prisons as ‘torture facilities,’ lawyers point to the absence of state and judicial oversight allowing them to operate with impunity.

ACTIVISM

UK: Acquittals Demolish Lies about Palestine Action Activists

5 Feb 2026 - Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop genocide is a crime.

MEDIA

The Legal Fight to Open Gaza to Foreign Press Has Failed–It’s Time to Change Course

6 Feb 2026 - As Israel’s Supreme Court continues enabling the government’s foreign media ban, Palestinian journalists are paying the price. Further legal efforts are futile.

Gaza Teaches Us That only Some Lives Are Worth Talking About

5 Feb 2026 - Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, Israel has killed over 500 Palestinians. But these lives – according to western media and politicians – are not worth talking about.

UNITED NATIONS

Don’t Blame the UN for the World’s Problems

1 Feb 2026 - The UN is weaker and more delegitimized than ever, but it would be a mistake to blame the institution for the world’s problems: the UN simply mirrors our fractured geopolitical reality.

PARADIGM CHANGES

Global Citizens Support a World Parliament: Leaders Need to Catch Up

28 Jan 2026 - A new global survey delivers a message that policymakers and institutions can no longer afford to ignore: people across the world are ready to discuss the idea of a democratically elected World Parliament and many already support it.

The Materialist Mind Is Trying to Resolve an Existential Crisis

6 Feb 2026 - We are at a crossroads of civilization, facing contradictions that cannot be solved by the same logic that created them. We are attempting to answer the future of humanity with a mindset inherited from the past.

ECONOMICS

A Major Problem That Economics Has Avoided All Along

The "Overly Important Perspective" Lost in a Society that Evaluates Its ​​People Solely on Their Productivity

INSPIRATIONAL

Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World

Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (7 Nov 1913 – 4 Jan 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

POETRY FORMAT

Shine

Smoke and sky spiders fill the air as missiles smash into Gaza and powerful men drive needles into the flesh of young girls.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Les Véritables Enjeux de l’Élection Présidentielle Portugaise : Une Danse Politique Sous la Pluie de la Tempête Marta

8 février 2026 - Ce n’est à n’importe quel scrutin auquel on assiste au Portugal : un duel épique entre António José Seguro, le socialiste modéré, et André Ventura, le leader de’extrême droite qui crie “Assez !” comme si elle avait inventé le slogan.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

He Must Know…

Breaks my heart...