For three days in the middle of June, the spa town of Évian-les-Bains was sealed off from the country it belongs to. Sixteen thousand police, gendarmes, soldiers and border guards held a perimeter that ran along the southern shore of Lake Geneva and across the frontier into Switzerland; the rail line was suspended, the lakefront divided into coloured zones, movement rationed by QR code. On the far side of the lake, in Geneva, some sixty thousand people marched under the banner of a “No G7” (…)

Yet another El Niño, after the strong event of 2023–24, has taken hold of the Pacific Ocean – and this time it may emerge as a historically powerful one. Satellite data through the spring tracked a vast pulse of unusually warm water making its way across the Pacific, and on 11 June 2026 the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its El Niño advisory: the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation is officially underway, with conditions expected to (…)

The dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on 15 July 2026 has triggered the largest wave of street protests Ukraine has seen since the “Cardboard Maidan” anti-corruption mobilisations of July 2025. Mikael Hertoft presents the anatomy of the crisis: the strategic conflict between a technocrat defence minister committed to drone warfare and a Soviet-trained commander-in-chief reluctant to relinquish conventional military doctrine, the political pressures feeding into Zelenskyy's (…)

Le gouvernement ukrainien restreint les allocations aux personnes déplacées internes (PDI) depuis mars 2024, en durcissant les critères d'éligibilité au moment même où les loyers augmentent et où le marché du travail ne peut absorber les déplacés. Olha Altunina — représentante du Commissaire aux droits humains du parlement ukrainien pour les citoyens victimes de l'agression armée — documente les conséquences : suspensions d'allocations, un programme de bons de logement dont la capacité (…)

The wartime government has been cutting displaced persons' support since March 2024, narrowing eligibility and tightening means-testing at the same moment that housing costs are rising and the labour market cannot absorb displaced workers. Olha Altunina — the Ukrainian Ombudsman's Representative for citizens affected by armed aggression — documents the consequences: benefit suspensions, a housing voucher programme whose funded capacity covers fewer than one in ten applicants, and a (…)

Amir Kianpour and Morteza Samanpour identify three distinct forms of campism obstructing internationalist politics under contemporary war conditions. “Campism of the fools” endorses any force opposing Western imperialism regardless of its internal repression, tracing a lineage from Cold War tankies to today's apologists for Russian intervention in Ukraine and Syria. “Strategic campism” acknowledges the reactionary character of forces such as Hezbollah but still backs them as the only (…)