December 23rd marks the 35th anniversary of an independence referendum in Slovenia, then a Yugoslav republic. In all, 88.5% of registered voters—95.7% of participants—said “da” to secession from the multi-ethnic socialist federation. The plebiscite prompted Ljubljana’s formal declaration of independence, and ensuing Ten-Day War between Slovenian territorial defense forces and...

Walden Bello is a well-known figure in the Philippines who served in its House of Representatives and ran as a vice-presidential candidate on a social democratic ticket in the country’s 2022 elections. For many years, Bello has also been a leading intellectual critic of neo-liberal ideology, showing in books and...

Though alleging to expose “deep-state” machinations against Donald Trump, their publication accuses James Comey and John Brennan of being communist agents and venerates Cold War-Era KGB defectors who advanced CIA disinformation While browsing through the magazine section at Barnes and Noble recently, for fun, I picked up the September issue...

Voters are turning against party of Ukraine war hawks as they are doing more and more across Europe Arne Juhl, once a Social Democrat (SD) “eye-catcher”—the proud face of the early retirement reform nicknamed “Arne Pension”—has dropped his support for Mette Frederiksen and the Social Democrats after voting for them...

The son of the Iwo Jima flag-bearer in one of the most iconic photos in U.S history, James Bradley gained fame for his 2000 book Flags of Our Fathers, which was made into a film directed by Clint Eastwood. Offput at how Flags of Our Fathers was...

Donald Trump, at the start of both his first and second terms, said that he would order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to clean up its act in the area of prison health care. Trump also pledged to push states to improve health care in their prison systems. That has...

Mike Pompeo, CIA Director and Secretary of State in the first Trump administration, has long been a Ukraine war hawk, calling Russia’s actions genocide, stating that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine (when its people voted overwhelmingly to be part of Russia) and consistently advocating for increased...

The European Union (EU) has a population of 450 million people, yet its foreign policy is determined by a country with a population of 1.3 million people—Estonia. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia. Her...

A bipartisan political movement is urgently needed to fight back against the CIA On November 4, Abigail Spanberger, a CIA case officer in the Middle East from 2006 to 2014, was elected as Virginia’s 75th governor. A Democrat who served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, Spanberger mixed criticism of Donald...

Honduras held national elections on November 30. At stake were the office of president, 125 seats in the National Congress, and more than 280 mayoral and municipal governments. Three major political parties, including the two traditional National and Liberal parties, and the more recently formed LIBRE Party,...