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Pure panic at British islands: The Gaza war will change the world

11:58 09.11.2023

Pure panic at British islands: The Gaza war will change the world

“Conflict in the Middle East is bad news for liberals and helpful for Putin and Trump,” writes ‘The Financial Times’. They are very nervous in London… In the US, Joe Biden’s presidency is in deep trouble. Donald Trump is now the favourite in the betting markets to win the presidency …

View from Delhi: US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon?

11:35 08.11.2023

View from Delhi: US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon?

The announcement late Sunday night by the US Central Command [CENTCOM] headquartered in Doha about the arrival of a Ohio-class American nuclear submarine in its “area of responsibility” presages a significant escalation of the situation around the Palestine-Israel conflict, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. It is …

FT: EU in trouble. Brussels is trying to devise another new strategy

11:32 08.11.2023

FT: EU in trouble. Brussels is trying to devise another new strategy

“Europe needs an overhaul,” says one economy official inside the EU commission. The EU economy, in dollar terms, is 65 per cent of the size of the US economy. That’s down from 91 per cent in 2013. Per capita, US gross domestic product is more than twice the size of …

Gallup poll: 41% of Americans say U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine

11:30 08.11.2023

Gallup poll: 41% of Americans say U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine

Republican support for Ukraine war has withered since start of conflict. Democrats remain steadfast in support of current approach to Ukraine. So are the results of a new Gallup poll. Helping Ukraine Too Much or Too Little? As the harsh winter months approach in Ukraine, Americans’ views on the war …

NYT: Biden confronts the limits of U.S. leverage in two conflicts

11:29 08.11.2023

NYT: Biden confronts the limits of U.S. leverage in two conflicts

President Biden’s influence over Israel and Ukraine seems far more constrained than expected, given his central role as the supplier of arms and intelligence, writes ‘The New York Times’. After four weeks of terror and retaliation in Israel and Gaza, and 20 months of war in Ukraine, President Biden is …

Putin in the Labyrinth: how Moscow can avoid losing in the Middle East

16:53 07.11.2023 Mihail Rostovsky

Putin in the Labyrinth: how Moscow can avoid losing in the Middle East

And, at the same, time prevent Russia from being turned into another “Middle East” itself Each new Middle East crisis is one of a kind, similar to the previous ones - both in the sense of its impact on the region itself and on outside world. In 1956, Egyptian President …

Ukrainian chronicle: ‘Major' Kyiv setbacks, and a new US bomb

11:16 07.11.2023 Vladimir Kozin

Ukrainian chronicle: ‘Major' Kyiv setbacks, and a new US bomb

The US Administration provides another aid package to Ukraine worth $125 million, which will include air defense systems, weapons and vehicles, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced. It is much less than earlier arms packages provided by Washington to Kyiv. It has been authorized under previously directed drawdowns for …

“The Nation” makes a memo to Biden: “Israel and Ukraine are not the same”

11:16 07.11.2023

“The Nation” makes a memo to Biden: “Israel and Ukraine are not the same”

In linking two very different wars, Biden undermines Ukraine’s moral and legal case for sovereignty, writes ‘The Nation’. In his speech from the Oval Office on October 20, President Biden drew a direct parallel between two ongoing wars in which the United States is intimately involved: the Russia-Ukraine war that …

View from Britain: Mounting evidence suggests Israel may be ready to ‘cleanse’ Gaza

11:13 07.11.2023

View from Britain: Mounting evidence suggests Israel may be ready to ‘cleanse’ Gaza

All the signs are in place that Israel is once again seriously considering a massive ethnic cleansing operation, conducted at lightning speed and with US assistance, writes Jonathan Cook, an English author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. …

The largest World anti-war protests in 20 years

11:09 07.11.2023

The largest World anti-war protests in 20 years

For the fourth week in a row, millions of people on every inhabited continent have flooded town squares, train stations and the streets demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza being conducted by Israel with the support and oversight of the US-NATO axis. Refusing to remain silent as 1,000 …

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