By Jeffrey D. Sachs* – Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) / Horizons Magazine Winter 2026 (forthcoming) Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating. From the nineteenth century to the present, Russia’s security...

By Maurice Stierl* – The Guardian The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them. For a decade, Europe has remained suspended in a perpetual state of migration crisis. While the Greek word krisis refers to an...

By Chris Hedges* – Consortium News Israel’s extensive and blatant flouting of international agreements and law presage a world where the law is whatever the most militarily advanced countries say it is. First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own...

By Peiman Salehi* – The Cradle As Washington’s sanctions model collapses, its desperate measures reveal not strength but a system in decline. The recent escalation in US–Venezuela tensions is often framed narrowly in tactical terms: the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, new sanctions targeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s inner...

By Conor Gallagher – Naked Capitalism German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week decried the end of Pax Americana and declared that Germany will fill the void: “The decades of Pax Americana for Europe and Germany are largely over for us. It no longer exists as we knew it. Nostalgia will...