No one expected what happened at the Putin-Trump Summit in Alaska and everything is about to change. Pepe Escobar breaks down the shocking results of the summit and how its will impact the geopolitical situation in Ukraine and beyond forever.

Colonel Jacques Baud is a former military intelligence analyst in the Swiss Army and the author of many books. Colonel Baud discusses how Israel has overextended itself and may destroy itself.

Yes to peace and international cooperation! No to war and military escalation! Join this nationwide demonstration with your own appeals!

The situation in Europe and the Middle East is escalating toward a major war. The NATO proxy war, which is bleeding Ukraine dry, has been lost. Yet the German government refuses to acknowledge this and now wants to make Germany Europe’s strongest military power again?

Israel is committing genocide with its indiscriminate bombing and systematic starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, as confirmed by the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. We are appalled that this government continues to supply weapons for this mass murder. Our constitution and international humanitarian law are being blatantly violated. Why isn’t the German government condemning Israel’s clearly illegal war of aggression against Iran?

We need peace initiatives, diplomacy, and a European peace architecture that includes Russia. Instead, an unsubstantiated narrative of an impending Russian invasion of Western Europe is being fabricated. Hundreds of billions in war credits were approved—in a coup orchestrated by Friedrich Merz—by the outgoing Bundestag and confirmed by the Bundesrat. Tanks, ammunition, and missiles are being delivered to "the Eastern Front," including possible authorization to strike deep into Russian territory. Germany is becoming a party to the war, exposing us to the risk of military retaliation. The same applies to the planned deployment of US intermediate-range missiles on German soil in 2026.

The economic war waged by the EU and the German government against affordable Russian energy supplies has led to massive price hikes—not to mention the CIA’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. The result is Germany’s ongoing deindustrialization and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Ray McGovern discusses Europe abandonment of reason, diplomacy and peace as the continent struggles with remaining relevant in a multipolar world. How did Germany replace the US as Russia's most despised adversary? McGovern was a CIA intelligence analyst for 27 years, chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and participated in preparing the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture.

Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: BRICS Earthquake: Dollar Tumbles as China Walks Away from US Debt

Larry Johnson is a former intelligence analyst at the CIA, who also worked at the US State Department's Office of Counterterrorism. Johnson discusses why the West is doubling down on the failed wars in Ukraine and the Middle East

States announce unprecedented measures to halt the Gaza genocide at Bogotá conference

16 July 2025 - In the most ambitious multilateral action since the start of Gaza genocide 21 months ago, a coalition of cross-regional states gathered in Bogotá has agreed to six coordinated diplomatic, legal and economic measures to restrain Israel’s assault on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and defend international law at large.

Jointly convened by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs, the Emergency Conference of The Hague Group, brought together 30 states from Africa, Asia, Europe, as well as North America and South America to move beyond words of condemnation — and to take collective action grounded in international law. 

In the deliberations at the Bogotá conference, all 30 participating states unanimously agreed that the era of impunity must end— and that international law must be enforced without fear or favour through immediate domestic policies and legislation  — along with a unified call for an immediate ceasefire.

To kickstart that process, 12 states from across the world — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa — committed to implementing the six measures immediately through their domestic legal and administrative systems to break the ties of complicity with Israel’s campaign of devastation in Palestine — and set a date of 20th September, to coincide with the 80th UN General Assembly, for additional states to join them. Consultations with capitals across the world are now ongoing.

“We hereby announce the following measures,” the Joint Statement on the Conclusion of the Emergency Ministerial Conference on Palestine reads, “to be adopted based on states’ domestic legal and legislative frameworks”:

Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke uses his geopolitical expertise to break down the global complexities of the US and Israeli war with Iran — from variables involving China, Russia, trade deals with the Gulf States and more, there is much to be considered when analyzing the implications of this latest conflict. 

With its decision of July 1, 2025, the German and Swedish governments are pushing ahead with its piracy files in the Baltic Sea. Action is now to be taken against merchant ships carrying Russian oil “to check the insurance papers”. See HERE.

Due to EU and US sanctions, these ships do not carry Western insurance documents, but are generally insured by Central Asian companies. For a flag state that recognizes such insurance, this satisfies maritime law. It is precisely this maritime law that the European Union now wants to undermine. With arrogant presumption, so-called “renowned” insurance companies are expected to accept this, e.g. Lloyds, which dominated the high seas for centuries as a colonial power in the tradition of the British Empire.

NATO states continue to provoke and have no qualms about overriding the freedom of the high seas, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which guarantees free, uncontrolled and unhindered passage. The Russian merchant ships referred to as the “shadow fleet” (there is nothing shadowy about them) are also allegedly too old and a danger to our environment. But this is ONLY a pretext. These EU provocations increase the danger of a transition from an economic war to a shooting war in the Baltic Sea.

Let's stop NATO's escalation of war in the Baltic Sea. Instead of economic warfare, sanctions, embargoes and acts of piracy against the Russian Federation, we need global economic cooperation, change through trade and the opening of secure gas and oil pipelines from Russia.

This year's NATO summit in The Hague is set against heightened geopolitical turbulence – from the ongoing war in Ukraine to the rapidly escalating crisis in the Middle East. NATO leaders have agreed to commit 5 percent of GDP annually on defense and security-related spending by 2035. But how will NATO members handle their internal divisions over increasing budgetary demands? Is the U.S. shifting its role within the alliance? And how consistent is NATO's approach to regional conflicts unfolding globally? Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Wang Yiwei, Jean Monnet chair professor of Renmin University of China; Victor Gao Zhikai, chair professor at Soochow University; Warwick Powell, senior fellow at Taihe Institute; and Prof. Glenn Diesen from University of South-Eastern Norway.