According to data published by the World Health Organization, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infections in the world has exceeded 108 million, increasing by more than 300,000 every day, and the number of fatalities has increased by more than 7,700 in the last 24 hours, now exceeding…
Politics
18.02.2021
The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria
Continued airstrikes carried out by Israeli warplanes in Syria presents – at face value – an obvious and persistent threat to Syria. In a wider context, the threat runs much deeper and extends to Syria’s allies in Tehran. Israel has been an eager participant in the US-led proxy war on Syria beginning in 2011. It has provided safe-haven and support for Western-backed militants…
Middle East - Israel
18.02.2021
Biden’s Interventionism Meets Russia-China Multilateralism
In his first major foreign policy speech, the newly elected US president made it clear that the era of US’ traditional interventionist and confrontationist policy is going to take over Donald Trump’s “America First”, a controversial policy that emphasized economic nationalism and a reduced US involvement in conflicts. In his last speech as president, Trump took a lot…
USA in the World
18.02.2021
The Public Fiasco of US Military Landing in Ashkhabad
Central Asia occupies a very important place in US foreign policy, primarily because of its geographical location next to the largest states of Eurasia — Russia and China, which Washington has already officially begun to call its main strategic adversaries. In recent years, the attractiveness of Central Asia for the global agenda has also been due to a major…
Central Asia - Turkmenistan
17.02.2021
Joe Biden on Relations with China
It hardly needs explaining that the nature of relations between the two leading world powers under the new American administration (during its next four years in power) will be at the center of the global political process. The last time we touched on this topic was in connection with the February 5 phone conversation between the new US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken…
USA in the World
17.02.2021
US-Turkish Relations To Hit an All-Time Low?
Although Turkey remains economically, politically and militarily dependent on the United States and NATO, the strategic plans of the two countries have increasingly clashed in recent years, and the conflict has spiraled from incident to incident, increasingly turning Ankara from an ally to a rival of Washington. In doing so, each side seeks to accuse the other…
Middle East - Turkey
17.02.2021
What Kind of Game is Joe Biden Playing in Afghanistan?
Many hopes and plans in Afghanistan were tied to the arrival of a new administration in the White House. All of them, however, have so far stalled, as has the prospect of a peaceful resolution of the conflict in that country. The Doha peace talks came to a halt because a US congressional committee did not recommend that Joe Biden rush the withdrawal of troops from…
Central Asia - Afghanistan
Economics
15.02.2021
Australia’s China Relationship Facing New Challenges
Some years ago the late Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew predicted that Australia would become “the poor white trash of Asia.” His words at the time shocked the Australian body politic and were fiercely denied. After all, Australia at the time was enjoying its largest trading boost with its Asian neighbours and nobody in the country could envisage…
Asian-Pacific region - Australia
15.02.2021
The WEF Agenda Behind Modi Farm Reform
In September 2021 the UN will hold a Food Systems Summit. The aim will be to reshape world agriculture and food production in the context of the Malthusian UN Agenda 2030 “sustainable agriculture” goals. The recent radical farm laws from the government of Narenda Modi in India are part of the same global agenda, and it’s all not good. In Modi’s India, farmers…
Southern Asia - India
12.02.2021
Food Insecurity and the Prospects for Emerging Players
With the inauguration of Joe Biden, and the coming post-Covid era being bound to create uncertain new realities, people are taking the time to assess what this future will look like, so they can take advantage of it before others do. The combination of a generally very negative environment, and change occurring within it, is leading people to wonder if the new world…
Africa
06.02.2021
India’s Strategic Cooperation with Russia is Gaining Momentum
The relationship between India and Russia is a strategic partnership based on a rich historical heritage. Signed twenty years ago on October 3, 2000, the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between the two countries formalized a partnership that is gaining strength year by year and is truly strategic in nature, possessing a unique…
Southern Asia - India
05.02.2021
The Great Zero Carbon Criminal Conspiracy
The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of “net zero carbon” by 2050. This for most sounds far in the future and hence largely ignored. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, to countless other economies, are setting the stage for creation of what in the 1970’s was called the New International…
Europe
04.02.2021
Britain Returns to Oceania
By early 2021, Britain had finally settled all economic, political, and other issues about leaving the European Union, while actively strengthening trade and economic relations around the world, especially with countries that have historical and cultural significance. First of all, with the countries of Oceania, which only a century ago were part of the British Empire, namely, Australia and New Zealand…
Asian-Pacific region
02.02.2021
Davos 2021 Speeches by Putin and Xi Point to a Different Future
The Davos Group of nations recently held its annual meeting electronically, the coronavirus preventing attendance in person for the first time. The United States was represented by John Kerry, one of many Democrats recycled from the Obama years. Russia was represented by its president, Vladimir Putin, and China, for…
Russia in the World
Society
18.02.2021
ROK Authorities Try to Bring Park Sang-hak and his Associates into Line, but the US Gets in the Way
Remember how the actions of anti-Pyongyang NGOs provoked the aggravation of the summer of 2020, when North Korea finally got fed up with the “fighters for a free North Korea,” led by the odious defector Park Sang-hak, launching balloons with leaflets and other propaganda across the border in…
Eastern Asia - South Korea
17.02.2021
Who Can Fill the Power Gap US Abuses Have Created?
Relationships between states differ over time, depending on a wide variety of factors. Poland was warmly welcomed into the EU when it got rid of Communism, but its veer towards an unpleasant form of nationalism now makes it a less than desirable partner. Tens of thousands of Portuguese died to kick the French out of their country, and now French citizens have an automatic right…
Canada
16.02.2021
China Ousts the BBC Based on UK's Own Media Standards
In a move that was entirely predictable after the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) banned China’s CGTN from operating in the UK, China has reciprocated by banning BBC World News from broadcasting in China. The BBC in its own article titled, “China bans BBC World News from broadcasting,” would claim: China has banned BBC World…
Eastern Asia - China
11.02.2021
Sputnik V Diplomacy: A Race Won As Humanity Continues Losing
Holy cow! The American expression most often reserved for stunning revelations suits a recent New York Times shocking headline. Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine may be worth a try, no less. When I read the headline, I dropped my morning cappuccino. That’s right, the bible of Putin and Russia haters has written a Psalm about Russia…
Europe
08.02.2021
How the US Sanctions Regime is Plundering Syria
While the US military presence in northeastern Syria is purportedly aimed at preventing the re-emergence of ISIS, there is little denying that the US presence and the overall policy regime it is following in Syria is actively contributing to down grading the country’s military and political gains in the ten long years of a multi-front war. On the one hand…
Middle East - Syria
05.02.2021
Is the Current Climate Catastrophe Irreversible?
The year 2020 was one of the three warmest years in the history of climate observations. The year saw catastrophic natural disasters of devastating proportions. There were record high temperatures in Australia, leading to massive wildfires, the same happened in Brazil and the west coast of the United States, and drought in South America. Large-scale flooding…
Europe
04.02.2021
Who are you, Mister Biden?
The arrival of the new US President to the White House has naturally raised many questions from everybody regarding the thrust of his forthcoming foreign and domestic policy, as well as his personality. Observers and politicians have already noted that, after occupying the Oval Office Joe Biden signed a dozen executive orders on his first day, indicating that the first thing he did was to combat the legacy…
USA in the World
