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Organised Crime Inc.: A Global Shadow Economy Redefining Power
From the Amazon to the Middle East, criminal networks are embedding themselves into legitimate industries, exploiting weak governance, and threatening global stability. August 2025 — In the dense Amazonian rainforest, once known mainly for biodiversity and climate battles, bulldozers now…
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Weaponising Food: From Sudan to Gaza, Starvation Returns as a Tool of War
After decades of decline in famine deaths, conflict tactics and aid shortfalls are driving a deadly resurgence. For a generation, the world appeared to have bent the curve of mass starvation. From the late twentieth century through the 2010s, better…
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Learning from Bosnia: Thirty Years after Dayton, a Mirror for Israelis and Palestinians
The Dayton Accords ended a brutal war but froze Bosnia in a fragile peace. As Israelis and Palestinians search for a path forward, Bosnia’s lessons—both successes and failures—offer valuable insights. International Affairs Analysis Thirty years ago, in the winter of…
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Europe’s ‘Iron Dome’ Moment: VCs Race to Back Cheap Air Defences for the Drone Age
As swarms of low-cost drones expose a brutal cost imbalance, venture capital firms from Lakestar to Accel are pouring money into European start‑ups building interceptor drones, sensors and AI for layered, ‘Iron Dome’-style air defence. Europe’s defence establishment has spent…
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Boots or Ideas?
Ukraine’s Independence Day Rekindles Europe’s Troop Debate—and Italy’s Red Lines As Kyiv marked 34 years of independence on August 24, 2025, President Volodymyr Zelensky said a foreign ‘boots on the ground’ presence would be ‘important’ under a peace deal. Rome…
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After the White House Handshake: Armenia and Azerbaijan Edge From War to a Conditional Peace
A U.S.-brokered framework, a controversial corridor, and the hard work still ahead in the South Caucasus (August 2025) WASHINGTON/YEREVAN/BAKU — On August 8, 2025, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan stood beside U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office…
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Syria After Assad: A Fragile Transition Tests a Fractured State
Eight months after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, Damascus navigates Kurdish integration, sectarian wounds, and the politics of reconstruction. DAMASCUS/AMMAN — Eight months after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria amid a lightning rebel advance, the country is in the uneasy, improvised reality of…
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Myanmar’s Unfinished War
On the eve of a December vote, the battlefield still decides the ballot — and civilians pay the price. Elections under fire The election timetable arrives amid attempts by the military to project control after dissolving its State Administration Council…
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Russian Crude: How India’s Oil Lobby is Funding Putin’s War Machine
That has to stop, writes Peter Navarro, White House counsellor for trade and manufacturing By Peter Navarro, White House Counsellor for Trade and Manufacturing August 2025 In the three and a half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the…
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Papua’s Flashpoint: 2025 Sees a Deadly Escalation in the TPNPB/OPM Insurgency
Clashes surge across Indonesia’s Papua region as security operations intensify; airports and mining sites are hit, villages empty out, and civilians face mounting risks JAYAPURA/JAKARTA — Indonesia’s long-simmering conflict in Papua entered a bloodier phase in 2025. Through the first…
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