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Israeli businesses buckle as war hits economy

11:14 11.11.2023

Israeli businesses buckle as war hits economy

Demand has plummeted and companies have shut as consumers and workers are either drafted or shielding in Israel, writes ‘The Financial Times’. Loyal customers of Israel’s Atlas Hotels recently received an unusual email — a desperate plea for donations to save the company from collapse. Atlas has opened its 16 …

View from Delhi: Arab-Iran amity is a geopolitical reality

11:12 11.11.2023

View from Delhi: Arab-Iran amity is a geopolitical reality

The forthcoming first visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia on November 13 marks a milestone in the rapprochement between the two countries mediated by China in March. The relationship is fast acquiring a qualitatively new level of solidarity in the context of the Palestine-Israel conflict, stresses M.K. …

View from Washington: Why do we let Israel and Ukraine wag the US dog?

11:28 10.11.2023

View from Washington: Why do we let Israel and Ukraine wag the US dog?

In America's weird empire, dependents call the shots. Soon we will be suffering the consequences, writes David C. Hendrickson, a professor emeritus of political science at Colorado College and the President of the John Quincy Adams Society. The alliance system of the United States is frequently called an empire, and …

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “A total of 145,000 shells fell on Donetsk sole. More than 16,000 residential buildings and almost 3,500 civilian infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged. 4,755 civilians, including 140 children, were killed”

11:27 10.11.2023

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “A total of 145,000 shells fell on Donetsk sole. More than 16,000 residential buildings and almost 3,500 civilian infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged. 4,755 civilians, including 140 children, were killed”

Photo: Permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the UN Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on threats to international peace and security (the shelling of Donetsk on November 7, 2023). Main points: - We called this urgent meeting in connection with yet another flagrant violation by …

A chief of “World Affairs Journal”: An update on Russia today

11:26 10.11.2023

A chief of “World Affairs Journal”: An update on Russia today

A recent visit to Moscow, the first in several years, gave me an obviously incomplete but still revealing, overview of where the nation finds itself today, writes Côme Carpentier de Gourdon, a convener of the Editorial board of the “World Affairs Journal”, an associate of the International Institute for Social …

The "Great Uncertainty" for the US Economy

11:24 10.11.2023

The "Great Uncertainty" for the US Economy

Contradictory data and indicators make assessments of the U.S. economy's future difficult, notes Dr. Scott B. MacDonald, a Chief Economist for Smith’s Research & Gradings, at ‘The National Interest’. The U.S. economy has drifted into the Great Uncertainty, which is defined as a multitude of contradictory data signals, a greater …

Pro-Palestinian protesters storm U.S. military ship at Port of Oakland

11:23 10.11.2023

Pro-Palestinian protesters storm U.S. military ship at Port of Oakland

In a dramatic demonstration against Israel’s military actions in Gaza, protesters stormed a large U.S. military ship at the Port of Oakland. At least three people scaled the Cape Orlando and held on to the ladder to prevent the ship from leaving the dock. The protesters believed the ship, which …

Sergey Lavrov: “Seasoned analysts knew from the very start that a policy aimed at undermining the Russian economy and social sphere would lead nowhere”

12:17 09.11.2023

Sergey Lavrov: “Seasoned analysts knew from the very start that a policy aimed at undermining the Russian economy and social sphere would lead nowhere”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the ambassadorial roundtable discussion of settlement in Ukraine. Moscow, November 8, 2023. Key points: - The war that the West has unleashed against us with Ukraine’s hands and bodies is a hybrid war in which unilateral restrictions or sanctions are allotted a special role. …

POLITICO: US diplomats slam Israel policy

12:04 09.11.2023

POLITICO: US diplomats slam Israel policy

The arguments in the dissent memo offer a window into the thinking of many people at the State Department, which has long been vexed by the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The document offers a window into internal fury at the State Department over President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies, writes POLITICO. …

View from Washington: “Will Zelensky wait for the inevitable?”

12:02 09.11.2023

View from Washington: “Will Zelensky wait for the inevitable?”

Volodomir Zelensky, Ukraine's president, is at war – with his generals, notes Stephen Bryen, a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and an expert in security strategy and technology. Zelensky has admonished the head of the Ukrainian armed services, Valery Zaluzhny, who told the Economist "Just like in the First …

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