Russia and North Korea just clinched a mutual defense pact during President Putin’s trip to Pyongyang, which followed his counterpart Kim Jong Un’s visit to Vladivostok last September that was analyzed here. This agreement is a geopolitical game-changer for three fundamental reasons: - it raises the stakes in the US’ dangerous game of nuclear chicken with Ru...
Even by Israeli standards, Uri Tzafon (Awaken North) is a far-right fringe group. Amid mounting tension with Lebanese Shiite political group and militia, Hezbollah, along the Lebanon-Israel border, Uri Tzafon is calling for Israeli settlement of southern Lebanon. The group has yet to gain traction. Uri Tzafon’s membership is in the low teens. Less than 300 p...
The doctrine was presented by the 5th US President James Monroe (1817−1825) in 1823 as an official warning to Western European powers that any European policy of imperialistic expansion on the ground of the Americas (North, Central, and South or Anglo-Francophone and Latin, i.e., Spanish and Portuguese) was going to be taken into account by Washington as a t...
History repeats itself, albeit with a tweak. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari’s public questioning of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Gaza war vow to destroy Hamas echoes the military’s message three decades ago to then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during the first Palestinian Intifada in the early 1990s. “We can solve this but not at ...
The events in the Gaza Strip are inevitably bringing Benjamin Netanyahu closer to full responsibility in the eyes of the world community for the crimes and atrocities he has committed against Palestinian civilians. The actions of the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the recognition of the State of Palestine by Spain, Ireland ...
Russia started the Special Military Operation in Ukraine on February 22, 2022. The Russian politico-military objectives were very clear right from the beginning. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the people on February 24, and argued that the basic purpose of the Special Military Operation was to protect people who were subjected to bullyin...
The dissolution of the French National Assembly, announced by President Emmanuel Macron following the results of the European elections, plunges France into chaos. Commentators question why the President of the Republic, whose party is expected to be wiped out in the legislative elections, is committing such suicide. They have no answer, probably because the...
The elections on 9 June show us a new political landscape, with two anti-war formations making up almost half of the electorate in Eastern Germany. Thuringia will elect a new state government and parliament in September, as will two other eastern states, Saxony and Brandenburg. On 9 June, the AfD won 30.7 per cent of the vote in the state’s European Parliame...
Vietnam has an ancient culture and a rich historical heritage. By the beginning of the common era, Vietnamese regions had at least 400 years of experience in state development. The Vietnamese people has vast experience – both military and peaceful – of interaction with their neighbours, knowledge of their mentality and their own culture of military strategy,...
A former Israeli hostage negotiator suggests Hamas may be willing to shift the paradigm in Gaza ceasefire negotiations. The problem is that Israel is not interested, while Hamas’ commitment to the idea is unclear. Moreover, negotiations mediated by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt have for months failed to bridge the gap between Hamas’s demand that a ceas...
Joseph Stalin had old official photographs corrected to remove any trace of his opposition. Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and their allies, too, are rewriting history. They have just staged, under the name of the “Normandy landings”, events that happened otherwise. They hide the serious conflict that arose, from June to August 1944, between the French organizat...
The judicial sentence pronounced in Washington against the Republican candidate Donald Trump openly contradicts the precedent that the case of the Democratic candidate John Edwards had established in 2012. But, contrary to what one might think at first glance, this rigged trial is not an initiative driven by Trump’s rival Joe Biden, but rather by the latter’...
Britain is the world leader in anti-Russian politics. The Brits hate Putin and zealously encourage the Ukies to fight their Russian cousins to the last drop of blood. The Russians and the Ukies were ready to sign a deal in February 2022, until British PM Johnson arrived in Kiev to convince the Ukies to drop it. And so they did. Ever since then, the Brits hav...
Gaza is not one but multiple wars. Beyond the horrors of the kinetic war in the Strip, Israel, the Palestinians, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and multiple political groups, including pro-Palestinian students, supporters of Israel, and right-wing forces, are waging often inter-connected Gaza-related information wars. To bolster US Congressional and ...
Judaism is a monotheistic religion of the Jewish people with a belief in one God and foundations in Mosaic and rabbinical teachings. The Jewish people have been asked to accept the worship of one God instead of many (polytheism). The will of this one God, the Creator, is expressed in the Torah – the first five books of the Bible (Pentateuch) which contains...
Officially, the Bundeswehr was in Afghanistan because “our security is also defended at the Hindu Kush”, as Defence Minister Peter Struck (SPD) justified Germany’s twenty-year military intervention in the Central Asian country in 2002. Last Friday [May 31-ed], 25-year-old Afghan Sulaiman Ataee stabbed a policeman to death in Mannheim, Western Germany. The of...
The US policy in Africa is centred on endless military intervention and bombing civilians and infrastructure (for instance, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and nations of Sahel for over 30 years), even while terrorism and Islamist militancy have expanded. This policy has distracted Africans from socio-economic development. While the US seeks to expand its footprint a...
The US security policy based on the reckless, and imperialist Wolfowitz Doctrine is collapsing, but Washington cannot admit either the policy or failure for fear of losing already waning credibility. The Wolfowitz Doctrine was an unofficial name given to an earlier version of the US Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) 1994-1999, which leaked to the media in early...
At the end of January this year, 12 serving Israeli ministers, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, took part in a big show, organized in Jerusalem, under the title “Conference for Israel’s Victory - Settlements Bring Security: Returning to the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria” [1]. On this occasion, the organizers threatened the Anglo-Saxons with the...
Politically, the 19th century in Latin America started in 1808 when the emancipation of the subordinated people against Spanish and Portuguese rule began. The struggle for independence was speeded up by the French military-political subjection of the Iberian Peninsula when both Spain and Portugal lost direct connections with their overseas colonies. This new...
Sri Lankans observe May 1 ‘International Labour Day” as a holiday. Political parties hold rallies, often as a show of strength. Three decades ago, President Ranasinghe Premadasa was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber while addressing the United National Party (UNP)’s May Day rally. This year as many as 19 rallies were held in Colombo. The presidential election...
Innocent Palestinians bear the brunt of Israel’s Gaza war, but they are not the only victims of the conflict. So are freedoms of expression, the media, and academia in the West, as well as Arab autocracies. If anything, Israeli and pro-Israeli efforts to curtail debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, suppress criticism of Israel, and impose a restric...
World history shows that an independent policy of a charismatic leader of an important state often leads to foreign interference, i.e., a coup d’état and the overthrow of the undesirable ruler. When all the “arguments” of diplomacy and economic pressure fail to achieve their goals, they use covert operations of special services and subversive organizations u...
It should come as no surprise that France has been stirring the pot, causing anger in Azerbaijan with its close to unconditional support for the Armenians, particularly in relation to the Azeri success in restoring its territorial integrity. In 2020, the French called for independence for what the Armenians called Artsakh, but for the Azeris it was, would be...
The international crisis over the status of the Crimean Peninsula was in February-March 2014 when the peninsula returned to the state’s territory of Russia from Ukraine. The Western Russophobic narrative immediately accused Russia of illegitimate annexation of the peninsula as well as of the occupation of the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. However, the sa...
Israel brazenly carried out a massive invasion of eastern Rafah, despite global concern for the fate of the estimated 1.5 million Palestinian civilians who were unwillingly trapped in this southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said its tanks had entered the Rafah crossing, which links the besieged Palestinian territory to Egypt, from the...
On 16 May, the 33rd Arab Summit was held. Leaders from all 22 Arab countries met in Bahrain, including the Presidents of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, the King of Jordan, the Emir of Qatar, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and others. They adopted the so-called Manama Declaration, which calls for the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force to protect an...
Contrary to popular belief, the French have never been in favour of colonization, but a pressure group, self-proclaimed “Colonial Party”, did manage to use its army to conquer economic opportunities. This pressure group, revived by presidents Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Emmanuel Macron, laid the foundations for the curren...