CounterVortex

08/20/2026

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Thai authorities to halt the deportation of ethnic Karenvillagers from Thailand's Phetchaburi province to Burma, citing grave risks to their safety if returned, and urging their immediate release from immigration detention. HRW reported that Thai security... Read m...

08/19/2026

Colombia formally joined the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), a US-led regional initiative under the rubric of the so-called "Shield of the Americas." US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that new far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella had authorized... Read moreColombia’s ...

08/18/2026

Yemen is closer to all-out war than at any other point since 2022, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council amid an upsurge of violence in and around the divided country. A Houthi attack on a cargo ship... Read moreYemen moves closer to return of ‘all-out war’

08/17/2026

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Syria: Bashar Assad sentenced to death in absentia

08/16/2026

The righties are apoplectic that Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey famously portrays a Black Helen—displaying their ignorance of the actual in*******se between Africa and the ancient Greek world. But apart from the cultural politics of the movie, the geopolitics of the... Read morePodcast: geopoliti...

08/14/2026

Türkiye's parliament announced that it has passed a new law creating conditional legal mechanisms for members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), allowing criminal charges to be indefinitely postponed if authorities confirm that the organization has dissolved and surrendered its weapons. The shi...

08/13/2026

Aid organizations responding to the powerful earthquake that hit Colombia face significant challenges, including difficulties accessing some of the worst-hit areas in remote western regions that have been seeing rising violence. The quake comes as Colombia was already facing its worst... Read moreCo...

08/12/2026

The United Nations reported that the cost of key foods increased in July as a result of searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical instability, which have affected crop yields and global energy prices amid persistent hunger risks in multiple countries. This situation... Read moreUN warns of global s...

08/11/2026

UN human rights experts condemned recent measures by the United States against Cuba, calling them attempts to "alter the constitutional order of a sovereign State through threats and coercion," and demanding that the Security Council and the General Assembly take... Read moreCuba at risk of becoming...