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SHORTAGES: A driver refuels others wait in a long line behind to fill up at a petrol station in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, January 27
Features / 29 January 2026
29 January 2026

By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN

SAME OLD SAME OLD: The USS Saratoga became the fist aircraft carrier to pull up pierside at Diego Garcia in December 1985 / Pic: PD Goodrich/CC
Middle East / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN

Shops are closed during protests in Tehran's centuries-old main bazaar, Iran, January 6, 2026
Features / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN

A Greenland flag waves in Westminster, in London, January 7, 2026
US Imperialism / 9 January 2026
9 January 2026

From the kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela to Trump’s annexation plans for Greenland: the US is openly relying on imperialism – and paradoxically strengthening its adversaries in the process, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN

DRANG NACH OSTEN: Bundeswehr armoured infantrymen during an exercise with the training device known as the duel simulator. Photo: Bundeswehr/S.Wilke/CC
Features / 13 December 2025
13 December 2025

The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN

NEARLY APOPLECTIC: Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, left, corners US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at Nato HQ in Brussels on Wednesday
Russia-Ukraine War / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025

While Trump negotiates peace with Moscow, Kiev and Brussels continue to pour fuel on the fire. Nato is preparing a big strike – and calling it defence, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends the general debate on the budget in the Bundestag, in Berlin, November 26, 2025. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP
Features / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul speaks to the media during a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara, Turkey, October 17, 2025
International Relations / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
 

US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK. Picture date: Thursday September 18, 2025
Features / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025

In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN

A new epoch v ‘the main stronghold of modern colonialism’
Features / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025

In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out

Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, US President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose during the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025
Features / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025

What began as a regional alliance now courts Australia, Japan and South Korea while preparing three-front warfare — but this overreach accelerates Nato’s own crisis as member states surrender sovereignty to the US, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
 

The US lead ship
Features / 18 June 2025
18 June 2025

SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that Israel’s attack on Iran represents the second front in Washington’s global three-front war strategy, with Germany leading the Ukraine proxy war against Russia so that the US can target China