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View from Cambridge: Iran and Pakistan’s shared crisis in Baluchistan

11:35 21.01.2024

View from Cambridge: Iran and Pakistan’s shared crisis in Baluchistan

Pakistan and Iran are both engaged in a struggle against separatist militants in the shared region of Baluchistan. Recent airstrikes in each other's territory have brought the nations closer to a conflict few predicted, writes Suzanne Raine, an affiliate lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University. 16 January, …

British animal fear: “Barbarians are coming from the East!”

11:33 21.01.2024

British animal fear: “Barbarians are coming from the East!”

Europe should arm against barbarians at its gates. To ensure peace, the Continent should prepare for war. Europe needs to beef up its military forces, insists Martin Ivens, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement and previously, an editor of the Sunday Times of London and its chief political commentator. …

View from New York: The elites’ absurd Davos crusade – ‘destroy freedom… to save humanity’

9:01 20.01.2024

View from New York: The elites’ absurd Davos crusade – ‘destroy freedom… to save humanity’

A very sharp and mocking commentary is published by ‘The New York Post’ following the results of the World Economic Forum in Davos-2024: Who would have guessed freedom of speech would become the biggest barrier to saving humanity? Luckily, a fix is pending from the billionaires, political poohbahs and other …

Red Sea unrest is bad news for World’s food supply

8:58 20.01.2024

Red Sea unrest is bad news for World’s food supply

Shipping disruption risks higher prices and food spoiling. That’s threatening to halt a slowdown in global food inflation, notes Bloomberg. Chaos in the Red Sea is starting to disrupt shipments of produce from coffee to fruit — and threatening to halt a slowdown in food inflation that brought some relief …

Shock and Awe: Putin orders hunt for property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union

8:57 20.01.2024

Shock and Awe: Putin orders hunt for property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union

President directs officials to search for Russian assets. Russian empire extended over Eastern Europe, Finland at peak, writes Bloomberg nervously. Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order …

British life-style: Space minister (!) Andrew Griffith mixed up Mars and the Sun

8:56 20.01.2024

British life-style: Space minister (!) Andrew Griffith mixed up Mars and the Sun

The Conservative space minister has apparently confused Mars with the Sun. Andrew Griffith, who has been in charge of the space sector since November, also mistook Jupiter for Saturn. On a walk around the Science Museum in London, Mr Griffith pointed to an exhibit showing the surfaces of different planets, …

View from Delhi: Iran’s self-defence in the new regional and international milieu

8:56 20.01.2024

View from Delhi: Iran’s self-defence in the new regional and international milieu

The stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours and Tehran taking the extraordinary step of announcing its responsibility for the attacks conveyed a very big message to Washington that its stratagem to create a coalition of terror …

View from Warsaw: Poland will become the next victim of the United States

11:46 19.01.2024

View from Warsaw: Poland will become the next victim of the United States

The future of Warsaw is already predetermined. Poland will become the next victim of the United States, writes ‘Dziennik Polityczny’. It plays a key role in the American strategy of “containing” Russia and is part of the so-called security belt around it. Therefore, Poland is destined to become the next …

Russia preparing to ban Britain from fishing for cod and haddock in Barents Sea

11:45 19.01.2024

Russia preparing to ban Britain from fishing for cod and haddock in Barents Sea

Moscow government is preparing to denounce Soviet-era fishing agreement with UK, informs The Independent’. Russia is preparing legislation to ban British fishermen from the Barents Sea, one of the biggest fisheries for cod and haddock in the world, according to a major Russian newspaper. Vladimir Putin’s government is in favour …

Germany: Economy is stagnating, social harmony has given way to acrimony and division

11:43 19.01.2024

Germany: Economy is stagnating, social harmony has given way to acrimony and division

For much of its postwar history, Germany was a beacon of prosperity and political stability. Now its economy is stagnating, and social harmony has given way to acrimony and division, notes Bloomberg. Germany’s grossly unequal distribution of wealth is an underappreciated cause of this malaise: The top 10% of households …

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