Taiwan - NATO - Brazil - South Africa - Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks

 

Why are US Special Forces Deployed in Taiwan? By Drago Bosnic We’re already used to the fact that various Western powers are meddling in the internal affairs of virtually every other country on the planet, including global superpowers such as Russia and China. This includes NATO members and other American vassals and satellite states around the world. Obviously, the United States is by far the most active in this process, particularly in the increasingly contested Asia-Pacific region. Read here

NATO Leaders Meet in Ankara, but Disunity Remains. Turkey’s S-400 Air Defense System. “The US and Europe are No Longer a Unified Bloc” By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida The annual NATO summit began on July 7 in Ankara, Turkey. Contrary to the expectations of biased Western analysts, the event appears to raise more questions than giving answers, as there seems to be no progress toward resolving the current disunity and disintegration within the Western bloc. Read here

Dissent Is Not Disloyalty: The Right and Duty to Criticize the Government By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead In Trump’s America, the president is free to call other nations bad actors, label his opponents dangerous, and treat disagreement as betrayal. But dare to criticize Trump, his administration, ICE, the police state, the war machine, the surveillance state, or the government’s steady assault on the Constitution, and you may find yourself treated as the threat. Read here

US Might Take “Military Actions in Brazilian Territory,” Foreign Ministry Warns By Uriel Araujo Brazil’s traditionally cautious diplomatic establishment has issued an unusually explicit warning regarding possible US military action. Legal, financial, and geopolitical pressures are reshaping relations across the continent in the context of regional crises and expanding American counterterrorism policies. Read here

Attacks in South Africa Undermining the Country and Africa as a Whole By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of June, what is known as xenophobic and “afro-phobic” attacks have been occurring in the Republic of South Africa, a nation of 65 million which emerged from apartheid rule 32 years ago. Read here

Deferring a Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Iran has continued to target vessels in the strait’s southern corridor, notably those transiting near the Omani coastline. Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has declared in rather purplish terms that the Strait was a “divine gift from God granted us during this war and our greatest instrument of power”. Read here

A Habitable Planet is Possible, but We Must Tackle the Richest By Marc Vandepitte The Global Justice Report sketches a hopeful and concrete transition path for humanity from 2026 to the year 2100. The main conclusion is simple: it is possible to unite well-being for everyone with a habitable Earth. However, that transformation rests on three equally important pillars. Read here