Jonathan Power: Global Columnist Based in Lund

By Hans Blix* Jonathan Power, ‘When are you to get a proper job?  Sixty years in journalism’ (2024) UPPSALA, Sweden | 3 June 2025 (WorldView) — Jonathan Power is one

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Europe Is a Superpower

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 30 April 2025 (WorldView) — The European Union is not going to face a break-up; however, the Ukraine/Russian conflict goes. Big crises come, but

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Israel’s Secret Cache of Nuclear Weapons

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 4 November 2025 (WorldView) —The story of Israel’s nuclear bomb is rarely told. Yet we hear a lot about the possible Iranian bomb and

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The Pursuit of Happiness

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 28 October 2025 (WorldView) —Want to be happy? Read on! Sigmund Freud, the great psychiatrist, said that people can never be fully happy. But

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The CIA Under Trump’s Administration and Its Activities

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 21 October 2025 (WorldView) — In Charles Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, set during the French revolution of 1789, he draws the

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The Unthinkable Again: America’s Fragile Taboo on Nuclear War

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 14 October 2025 (WorldView) — I’m just out of the cinema having seen Kathryn Bigelow’s masterful film, A House of Dynamite, about a nuclear

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Israel: A Nation Trapped in Its Own Myths

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 8 October 2025 (WorldView) — The Israelis are obsessed with themselves, with their history, with the present time and with their destiny. Every nation

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A Shadow on the Wall

Why nuclear deterrence remains the most dangerous illusion of our age By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 30 September 2025 (WorldView) — We were standing in Hiroshima looking at a

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Islam, the West, and the Politics of Paranoia

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 23 September 2025 (WorldView) — The words still ring in policy-makers’ ears from Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington’s famous treatise, The Clash of Civilizations. This

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Brazil’s Emerald Forest: What the World Risks Losing

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 16 September 2025 (WorldView) — Belem is the Brazilian city at the mouth of the Amazon. Unlike its slummy counterpart, Kinshasa, at the mouth

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Zelensky Could Have Benefited from Lech Walesa’s Approach

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 10 September 2025 (WorldView) — Is it too late to say non-violence would have served the Ukrainians better? Probably yes, although it shouldn’t be

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The Iron Fist Inside A Velvet Glove

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 3 September 2025 (IDN) — “1789 is a historic date, but it is not a historic example”. The French Revolution, violent to its fingertips,

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The Case for Nuclear Disarmament: Assessing the Extent of Putin’s Influence

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 26 August 2025 (WorldView) — Everything gets said, nothing gets done. When President Donald Trump met with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, we were

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From Shylock to the West Bank: Israel’s Moral Decline

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 12 August 2025 (WorldView) — Recall Shakespeare’s great work of dramatic art, The Merchant of Venice, where Shylock was treated as an unpleasant Jew

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The Outrageous Simplicity of Today’s Warmongers

By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 30 July 2025 (WorldView) — Does America know what a dangerous game its leaders have been playing? Does it know its history? And do

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