Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler / Sign up / Submit contributions / Oct 2026 🍿 [DOCUMENTARY: What happens when countries stand up to super powers? Bandung 1955, a 12 min documentary by Al Jazeera] 🇺🇳 [Analysis: What Non-Western Governments Said About AI at the UN] “While governments in the United States and Europe debate how…

Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler / Sign up / Submit contributions / Sept 2026 🎂 [NEWS: 65 Anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement] Fragment of 1961 Belgrade Declaration: “noting that there are crises that lead towards a world conflict in the transition from an old order based on domination to a new order based on co-operation between…

Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler / Sign up / Submit contributions 🎂[Anniversary: 50 years from the NAM Colombo Declaration echoes current anxieties] Colombo declaration (1976) excerpt: “Non-Aligned countries noted with concern the vast and ever growing gap between communication capacities in non-aligned countries and in the advanced countries which is a legacy of their colonial…

Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler /Sign up / Submit contributions 🇺🇳 [UN WSIS Meeting coming up July 6-10!] Background: The United Nations General Assembly recognizes the central role of the WSIS Forum as a global platform for advancing the World Summit on the Information Society vision. Through resolution A/RES/80/173, the General Assembly acknowledged the work…

Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler /Sign up / Submit contributions 🇺🇸🇨🇳[NEWS: Xi-Trump summit readout] “China will open wider” (Xinhua/CNBC) “Xi said that U.S. companies are deeply involved in China’s reform and opening up, and both sides have benefited from this,” according to a report from state-backed newspaper Xinhua. “Noting that China’s door will only open…

Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler / Sign up / Submit contributions [NEWS: Commercial satellite imagery in the Middle East]  🇺🇸US commercial providers suspend publication  “Satellite imaging firm Planet Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold imagery of Iran and the conflict region in the Middle East to comply with a request from the U.S.…

Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler – Sign up to receive as email 🇮🇱🇺🇸//🇮🇷[Israel/US-Iran War expands to datacenters] 🇮🇱🇺🇸📂[US/Israel’s attacks] “Israel and the US have hit at least two data centers in Tehran, according to Holistic Resilience. The non-profit, which is mapping airstrikes on Iran, said that one of the data centers was used by the Islamic…

Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler – Sign up to receive as email MACRO TRENDS 🇨🇦[Speech: Canadian PM Mark Carney January speech at Davos: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition] “For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We joined its institutions, we praised its principles,…

Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler – Sign up to receive as email 🇺🇿[NEWS – UZBEKISTAN TO CHAIR NAM 2027-2029] “Uzbekistan will assume the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement for the 2027–2029 period. The announcement was made on January 15 during a video conference meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the activities of the Ministry…

Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler – Sign up to receive as email 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷🇸🇬🇳🇱🇬🇧🇮🇱🇦🇪🇦🇺[US seeks a…Pax Silica?] “Pax Silica is a U.S.-led strategic initiative to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation driven silicon supply chain—from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and logistics. Rooted in deep cooperation with trusted partners, Pax…