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Japan's Political Earthquake: Time To Patch Things up with Russia?
The conservative LDP just won its largest victory in history. While not all is as rosy as it looks, the mandate is strong and might be what's needed to…
Feb 9
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The Last Day of Nuclear Arms Control
Today, Wednesday, February 4, is the last day of the last remaining US-Russian nuclear arms control treaty. It‘s a sad goodbye and maybe our most…
Feb 4
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The Two Levels of EU-Sanctions Illegality
While formally consistent with EU-treaties, the sanctions of the European Union are highly illegal under international law in two domains. A short…
Feb 3
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Ceding the Future to China
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) remarks to Brown University’s Watson School’s “China Chat”. Providence, Rhode Island, 2 December 2025.
Jan 27
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Davos: Eyewitness to a Burning Empire
Yana Afanasieva shares her impressions from Switzerland: The music has stopped, the house is on fire, but the elites are still dancing.
Jan 25
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Sachs & Mearsheimer on ‘Spheres of Security’
Sep 7, 2025
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What Goes Around: The EU's Extralegal Sanctions Regime
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Letter of Support for Jacques Baud and Nathalie Yamb
Dec 21, 2025
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Trump's Board of Peace: Not an Anti-UN
Never have I seen the blueprints of an International Organisation so reminiscent of a feudal kingdom.
Jan 20
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What Goes Around: The EU's Extralegal Sanctions Regime
EU Sanctions against the block's own citizens and residents are a horrible development toward a totalitarian future. Their extralegal nature is what…
Jan 2
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Letter of Support for Jacques Baud and Nathalie Yamb
I sent an open letter of support to the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs to call on them to help two fellow Swiss citizens and oppose EU repressions.
Dec 21, 2025
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We Need Volunteers for Peace!
By Ambassador Raymond R. M. Tai
Dec 8, 2025
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What Will Security Guarantees Secure?
The western obsession with 'security guarantees' is obfuscating the one way to actually secure peace for Ukraine—its long-sabotaged neutrality.
Nov 4, 2025
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Mihail Evans
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No End To Zionist Colonization
An analysis of the "peace agreement" by Palestinian professor Mazin Qumsiyeh from the occupied West Bank.
Oct 11, 2025
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The ‘Post-Cold War’ is now the ‘Unipolar Moment’
For the longest time we described the years after 1991 as ‘Post-Cold War’. This designation could never stick. Going forward, it will be remembered as…
Oct 5, 2025
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