Experts from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), have conducted an analysis of geopolitical, military and technological trends in global security, and prepared a final report, identifying the overall shape of the emerging world order and analyzing the dynamics of the processes underway in order to develop recommendatio...
The political regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran demonstrated its characteristic approach to elections during the registration and elimination of candidates. Of the six candidates, Masoud Pezeshkian was the only one nominated by a (relatively) pro-reform group, and it was he who, in a closely-fought contest, was successful in both rounds of voting, (June...
Trump’s national security advisory team has prepared a balanced plan. If the Kiev regime does not enter into peace talks with Moscow, the US would (under a Trump presidency) immediately suspend the flow of US weapons to Ukraine: “Under the plan drawn up by [General Keith] Kellogg and Fred Fleitz, who both served as chiefs of staff in Trump’s National Securit...
On 16 July, Jürgen Elsässer (67) woke up startled at 6 a.m., opened the door of his house while still in his dressing gown, and in front of him were dozens of police officers, some with their faces covered, heavily armed, in a surreal image befitting any authoritarian state. However, it was in Brandenburg, on the outskirts of Berlin, in the Germany of the tr...
Over the past month, epochal events have taken place that radically alter U.S. presidential politics. It began with President Joe Biden’s catastrophic performance in the June 27 debate against former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump, igniting calls by the mainstream media and a growing number of Democratic Party officials for Biden to withdraw...
As NATO celebrated its 75th anniversary in mid-July, all the speakers, including Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin and Jens Stoltenberg cunningly cast the alliance as a peaceful grouping that shields the freedom-loving and democratic West from a violent world. Nothing can be further from the truth, as its members caused World War II and fanned WWI and have been respon...
They did it to themselves, not just President Emmanuel Macron, but the French establishment as a whole. To add injury to insult, especially in the wake of losing colonies in Africa (and their lucrative minerals), the ruling party proved its inability to keep close to the pulse of the French people and their aversion to war, and love of fiery protests. This w...
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle issued a statement in which she asserted the following:
Secret Service personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incident, with our counter sniper team neutralizing the shooter and our agents implementing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president Donald...
The bullets of an assassin shook the world on Saturday, July 13. Shot by a sniper at a campaign rally in a small town in Pennsylvania, Presidential candidate and former President Trump survived by a hair’s breadth as the assassin’s bullets just missed the centre of his head, which he moved as he spoke, and hit his ear as it whistled by. Photos of the bullet...
The Saudi decision not to renew the 50-year-old petrodollar system is both a symptom of the gradual erosion of the US-led and US-centred global financial order and indicates the imminent arrival of alternative systems of financial transactions in currencies other than the USD. This is at one and the same time both a collapse of the existing world order and t...
The BBC reported the other day and quoted Mr. Putin saying Europe is defenceless in the case of a nuclear exchange with Russia. The Russians have also indicated the right to sell /deploy massive strike weapons to nations threatened by America and the Western allies. This, in response to Washington giving the go-ahead for Ukraine’s Zelensky to hit targets ins...
Novelty has observers rummaging through their inventory of ideas and concepts to find one to fit the new experience. Its application is supposed to provide some rudimentary meaning about the new phenomenon. Many are content with doing just that – however freighted with inappropriate connotations that label might be, however ambiguous its denotation(s). So, i...
Former President and impending Republican Nominee Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday [July 13-ed] days before his party’s national convention after suddenly turning his head at the last second and thus miraculously dodging a bullet that only ended up grazing his ear. The shooter was killed by the Se...
It is of extreme importance to understand the concept and motivation of soft power by China – the rising market power today and already the first export nation with the second-largest economy in the world. Concerning China and its foreign policy, soft power is one of the most frequently used political and social concepts during the last two decades. It has t...
Keir Starmer, the UK’s first Labour prime minister in 14 years, has made many pledges to ‘renew’ the UK after Rishi Sunak’s appalling term. A prolific barrister turned politician, Starmer has seen a steep rise in his political career. He has vowed to make positive changes in the public services that the Brits are currently struggling with. However, with the ...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Moscow on Friday [July -ed] ahead of his trip to Azerbaijan the day after to attend the Organization of Turkic States’ annual summit [July 5-6-ed] that’s being held there this year. This came shortly after his trip to Kiev, the first that he undertook since the latest phase of the decade-long Ukrainian Conflict b...
INDIA HAS A COALITION government at the Centre after a decade. The Narendra Modi-led NDA government has taken charge with the BJP keeping all key ministries, including defence, home and finance. What can one expect in the first-ever coalition Union Budget under third-time Prime Minister Narendra Modi? What could be the pulls and pressures of laying a Union B...
In response to attempts by the Western minority to destabilize and sabotage the processes of strengthening the union and integration of the Alliance of Sahel States, the member countries of the alliance have chosen to move towards an additional offensive. All without forgetting to mention the real and worthy external partners of the AES. One thing is obvious...
The international organisation of BRICS, which currently encompasses 9 states, operates on the principles of equality, non-interference and mutual benefit. Considering the unconstructive and aggressive politics of the Collective West, led by the United States, BRICS is attracting an increasing number of countries opposed to monopoly and the dictate of the un...
Think of an Indian soldier who vowed not to sleep on a bed till he would not take back Jhangar, in Jammu and Kashmir, from the Pakistani army. He slept on the floor when the temperature was much below zero degrees Celsius. Think of an Indian soldier on whose head a ‘reward’ of Rs. 50,000 was declared by Pakistan. Think of an Indian soldier who ordered his ba...