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A fragile diplomatic opening has emerged between Washington and Tehran, placing Pakistan once again in the difficult position of keeping a channel alive between two adversaries that do not merely disagree on outcomes but often negotiate from different political systems, strategic cultures and assumptions about time itself. This makes mediation difficult from the start. The ch...

Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with Martin Plaut, a journalist, academic and author, about the deepening rupture between the Trump administration and South Africa. They examine why Washington barred South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit in Miami, Florida, and how decades of ANC foreign policy have collided with US President Donald Trump’s worldview....

I began this conversation by focusing on the moral status of a trend that sees governments seeking to rely increasingly on autonomous weapons in wartime, which raises a serious question concerning accountability. Afte...

In an age of democratic decline and disinformation, the US cannot hope to persuade others that it still adheres to the values it once promoted while the Trump administration dismantles the very institutions that once claimed to embody them. As democracy weakens, imperial ambitions gain momentum and disinformation spreads, foreign audiences now view the US as a central locus o...

Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh speaks with former counterterrorism operative Jeffrey James Higgins about narcoterrorism, a threat that sits between organized crime, insurgency and geopolitical conflict. Higgins argues that illicit drug networks are no longer merely criminal enterprises. They fund armed groups, corrupt institutions, hollow out communities and, in some cases, opera...