The UN report, “Gaza Genocide” (A/80/492) states that “the prolonged unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory” by the state of Israe...

It is easy to point to instances in which elected government-officials stage political theater for effect, for in the domain of politics, pe...

Besides international law, international organizations, or NGOs, function internationally beyond the reach of the nation-state. From the sta...

The Rome statute, a treaty that went into effect in 2002, established the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to bring accountabilit...

An old saying advises against “looking a gift-horse in the mouth.” Another says, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” At least as of mid-Ju...

On 7 July, 2026, speaking at NATO’s Summit Defense Industry Forum in Turkey, Ukrainian President Zelensky made the case that Ukraine should ...

Two years after winning in a landslide, with his Labour group being given its largest majority in Parliament in decades, PM Starmer found hi...

To be a neutral arbitrator of a conflict between two other countries, a government cannot favor one of the two; otherwise, the veneer of neu...

The United Nations was intended to obviate war, and failing in that mission, at least to safeguard economic trade especially if doing so sta...

On a day when “(a)pproximately 4,000 building in Kyiv lacked heating . . . as temperatures plunged to -20C amid Ukraine’s coldest winter in ...

Even though Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine was prompting E.U. officials to bolster the union’s defenses in 2025, U.S. President Trump’...

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the sitting president of Venezuela was captured by the U.S. military and sent to New York, where he w...

Does the E.U. itself instantiate a decline in European civilization? So says a National Security Strategy for the United States released by ...

As U.S. President Trump was drawing a line in the proverbial sand by stating repeatedly that Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons,...

In March, 2025 after the U.S. had direct talks with Russia on ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the E.U. stepped up its game in helping U...

One of the many advantages that democracy has over autocracy (i.e., dictatorship) is that the dispersion of political power among elected re...

As the chief executive of the U.S. Government, the president is tasked with executing the law—the passage thereof involving both the Congres...

In December, 2024, Amnesty International, a highly reputed human rights international organization “found sufficient basis to conclude that ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, Ben Netanyahu, former defense minister, Yoav Gall...

Just because U.S. federalism deposits foreign policy exclusively with governmental institutions at the federal level does not mean that that...