Editor in chief

Editor in chief:  Said Batrouni

PEN Name:  Marcos Fidel

Nurse Jen and the front line

By Monte Dunard Saturday 24 January 2026 Nurse Jen from Southern California just checked in from the front. She says […]

24.01.2026

Iran’s switch on the wall

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 24 January 2026 When a state “turns off the internet”, it rarely means a […]

23.01.2026

The Silent Swarm: AI Bots and the Fragility of Democratic Discourse

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 23 January 2026 Democratic systems depend upon a basic assumption: that public debate, however […]

23.01.2026

Trump’s Board of Peace

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 23 January 2026 President Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” is best understood as two […]

23.01.2026

Domodedovo: A seizure in search of a buyer

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 23 January 2026 When the Russian state moved to seize Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport in […]

22.01.2026

Oligarch power after invasion: weakened, transformed or merely disguised?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 22 January 2026 The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 appeared, at […]

22.01.2026

Human suffering caused by ICE operations in the United States

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 22 January 2026 The United States has always insisted that her immigration enforcement system […]

22.01.2026

NATO’s Arctic Sentry Project

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 22 January 2026 NATO’s mooted ‘Arctic Sentry’ project has emerged at an awkward moment […]

22.01.2026

Trump at Davos

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 22 January 2026 The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos has […]

22.01.2026

Will US oil companies invest in Venezuela?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 21 January 2026 In the early days of the year 2026, the geopolitical order […]

21.01.2026