The countdown to the Iraqi Kurdish referendum has begun and the battle lines are drawn. Barzani Is pushing full steam… More►
Politics
23.09.2017
Australia and U.S. “Joined at the Hip”: Where’s the Benefit?
The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has on two recent occasions referred to Australia being “joined at the hip” to the United States on its defence and national security policies. That phrasing invited some critical commentary…
USA in the World
23.09.2017
Damascus Making Progress in the Fight Against DAESH
From September 14 to September 15, Astana held its sixth round of talks on Syria, in which the delegations of the guarantor countries Russia, Turkey and Iran, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian opposition…
Middle East -
Syria
22.09.2017
The Deadly Rocket Scare Redux: North Korea’s Role in the Arms Game
North Korea is once again the big, bad, boogey man of Asia, a convenient villain Washington will use to fuel a spanking new arms race. If all-out war does not follow Donald Trump’s insane policies aimed at Pyongyang, something…
Eastern Asia -
North Korea
22.09.2017
Fact Check: Updating Cold War Myths About Thailand
Many honest, busy analysts outside established media circles in the United States and Europe are plagued by mythologies stemming from once pseudo-truths they simply lack the time or energy to dig into and finally correct. Among…
Southeast Asia -
Thailand
22.09.2017
Will an Independent Kurdistan be Created?
Despite the fact that the United Nations, LAS, the United States of America, Russia and the countries sharing borders with Turkey — Syria and Iran, as well as all the Arab States, not to mention the central government of Baghdad, have protested in advance, the parliament…
Middle East
21.09.2017
China Increases Its Influence Over Afghanistan
It’s hardly a surprise that the United State is not the only state to recognize the geopolitical importance of Afghanistan. Among the other nations deeply involved in this Central Asian state is China. Ever since 2011, when…
Central Asia -
Afghanistan
21.09.2017
A UN Force For Ukraine: Beware the Trojan Horse
Russia has proposed that a UN “peacekeeping” force be placed in Ukraine to protect Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) representatives, who are supposed to be monitoring adherence to the Minsk agreements…
Ukraine in the world
Economics
21.09.2017
Even After Sanctions, North Korea has a Lot to Cheer About
Politics of sanctions is not known to have been an effective source of bringing about political change. This is particularly evident from the way Iran has thwarted the US and EU sanctions in the last decade or so, and this is even…
Eastern Asia -
North Korea
19.09.2017
EU is About to Put an End to China's Carefree Shopping Spree
In late August, German Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Brigitte Zypries issued an official letter to the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in which she…
Eastern Asia -
China
19.09.2017
Russia’s Interesting New Oil Geopolitics
Since the 1928 Red Line Agreement between British and French and American oil majors to divide the oil riches of the post-World War I Middle East, petroleum or more precisely, control of petroleum has constituted the thin-red-line of modern geopolitics. During…
Russia in the World
13.09.2017
Gold Oil Dollars Russia and China
The 1944 Bretton Woods international monetary system as it has developed to the present is become, honestly said, the greatest hindrance to world peace and prosperity. Now China, increasingly backed by Russia—the two great…
USA in the World
09.09.2017
Under the US Radar: The BRICS
As the ninth annual BRICS gathering, held this year in China, comes to an end, it’s time to point out that these five nations representing some 23% of the world’s economy and 43 % of its population, is almost totally absent from the Western…
Russia in the World
02.09.2017
Russia vs US Economic War: Who's Going to be the Ultimate Loser?
Full scale economic war in between America and Russia is underway. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said so, and the US administration and the American congress voted it in with new sanctions…
Russia in the World
31.08.2017
“Too Much Coal” - Grabbing Energy Markets with Geopolitics
After a two year slump, coal, iron, and everything related to mining is seeing a boom. Entities on the New York Stock Exchange linked to the extraction of minerals from the earth are seeing their profits go up. Like most things in…
Eastern Asia -
China
Society
19.09.2017
In the Land of the Free, No One is Above Suspicion
The Russia probe is making a lot of Americans unhappy, either because they are convinced that Vladimir Putin is an enemy who must be taught a lesson, or because they know the deep state is fabricating a case for war. One thing I never hear mentioned, however, is the fact that political…
USA in the World
16.09.2017
Vladimir Putin and Russia versus Zionist Fairytales
Did you read the latest news that Vladimir Putin is rich and evil? Oh, you don’t read anymore, more power to you. Fake news has it that the Russian president has a new “secret” holiday mansion worth untold millions. Furthermore, some of the stories…
Russia in the World
11.09.2017
A People and a Faith are Held Hostage to the House of Saud
The House of Saud is using the Hajj pilgrimage as an asymmetrical weapon of war to forward its agenda. To prevent God to become a tradable commodity, and abuses institutions onto themselves, silence…
Middle East -
Saudi Arabia
09.09.2017
Further Evidence As To Why America’s Word Cannot be Trusted
Recent events confirm the long held view of many that adherence to international law is, for the Americans, at best an optional extra rather than being an essential component of conduct between States…
USA in the World
07.09.2017
Will a Fourth Merkel Term End the EU?
In the runup to Germany’s election Angela Merkel seems to think a strategy of big, bold, and bossy will win election day for her. News she is bent on blocking Turkey’s EU bid personally, and Brussels adopting her “educate the peons”…
Europe
03.09.2017
Washington is Lagging Behind in the Struggle Against ISIS on the Net
The power of the terrorist group known as ISIS over the hearts and minds of young people that are running the risk of become its militants has been declining on the daily basis. The influx of foreign recruits who come to Syria and…
USA in the World
30.08.2017
Monsanto: It Ain’t Glyphosate, it’s the Additives!
Famously corrupt and unscrupulous, Monsanto Corporation has now been discovered in covering up the highly toxic effects of the secret additives it combines with glyphosate in Roundup, the world’s most-used herbicide. The IARC, an agency of the World Health Organization…
USA in the World
