Open Dialogue Research Journal
A revealing episode has just unfolded in Tallinn that perfectly exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality in modern Estonia. President Alar Karis has refused to promulgate a law passed by parliament that would have completely excluded citizens lacking at least B1-level Estonian from compulsory military service starting in 2026. […]
How the world press reacted to Vladimir Putin‘s visit to India The results of the Russian president‘s visit to New Delhi are in the spotlight of the world media. The meeting between Russian Leader Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was watched by the entire world press and […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatred directed against Jews remains one of history’s grotesque legacies, opportunism in the Netanyahu government is a ready instinct. With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has […]
The BBC has pledged to mount a firm legal defense after US president Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British public broadcaster, accusing it of defamation and deceptive practices over its editing of his January 6, 2021 speech ahead of the storming of the US Capitol. The […]
The Arctic is undergoing a transformation at a speed that scientists increasingly describe as unprecedented. Rising temperatures have long been recognized as a central driver of polar ice loss, but researchers are now pointing to another, more acute phenomenon that is reshaping the region: episodes of “extreme melting.” These events […]
There are many ways in which these leaders of neoconservatism/neoliberalism are harmful to the entire world, but the one that will be focused on here is their lie-based “good cop ‘versus’ bad cop” routine in order to pump up the sales-volumes of the U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers and other war-profiteering corporations […]
We all know what NATO is. Mainstream media has told us that it is a beacon of hope – the institution that single-handedly guarantees European security and stability. Western elites make us believe that democracy, dignity, and freedom serve as the ultimate moral foundations of the organization. In reality, it […]
It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security, not least […]
The real purpose might be to prevent the US from reaching a deal with Russia per point 14 of its leaked 28-point peace framework to invest a significant sum of its (by-then former) adversary’s EU-seized assets into joint projects, likely energy and rare earths, after the conflict ends. Russia condemned the EU’s […]
Donald Trump, whom European leaders generally consider a populist with no political experience, has published his new National Security Strategy, a clumsily written document, but one of considerable philosophical scope. In it, he presents himself as a master of diplomacy and proposes, following President Andrew Jackson’s slogan, to replace war […]
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