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The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on five Turkish companies. Why?

10:09 30.09.2023

The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on five Turkish companies. Why?

Secondary sanctions are all the rage as Washington gets more desperate to crack down on unaligned countries. The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on five Turkish companies and one Turkish national accused of helping Russia evade sanctions and supporting Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine, turning up the pressure on …

Welcome to the New Green Colonialism

10:07 30.09.2023

Welcome to the New Green Colonialism

In 2023, there’s a catch to climbing that ladder into the industrialized world. As the board of directors of the club of the wealthy points out, the classic ladder of development, industrialization itself, has become rickety and ever more dangerous. After all, it requires energy traditionally supplied by fossil fuels, …

POLITICO: Fear in the EU ‘chicken coop’ – “Can Europe survive Trump 2.0?”

10:06 30.09.2023

POLITICO: Fear in the EU ‘chicken coop’ – “Can Europe survive Trump 2.0?”

Here’s something the European mind can’t fully comprehend: “Come November 2024, Donald Trump may be headed back into the White House,” states POLITICO. It’s a nightmare scenario for Europeans who bore the brunt of the former U.S. president’s antagonism during his four years in office and hoped to never have …

Mission to free Assange: Australian Parliamentarians in Washington

11:39 29.09.2023

Mission to free Assange: Australian Parliamentarians in Washington

“As Australian Parliamentarians, we are resolutely of the view that the prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end,” writes Binoy Kampmark, a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and he lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. It was a short stint, involving a six-member delegation of Australian …

London policy: To isolate Russia from Europe-side

11:39 29.09.2023

London policy: To isolate Russia from Europe-side

Washington has reason to rejoice: it has managed to tear Europe away from Russia. For representatives of the ruling stratum in the West, demonizing Moscow is something that has been taken for granted, if not throughout their entire careers, then at least since the «annexation of Crimea to Russia» in …

Josep Borrell in panic: “Everyone think now that there are credible alternatives to the West”

11:38 29.09.2023

Josep Borrell in panic: “Everyone think now that there are credible alternatives to the West”

In his fundamental article, Mr. Borrell (photo), a High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, demonstrates that he has realized: the collective West has lost its dominant role in the World. So, he is extremely concerned that “everyone think now that …

The 13th IPACC for Indo-Pacific, hosted by India and the US

11:37 29.09.2023

The 13th IPACC for Indo-Pacific, hosted by India and the US

The comments on the strategic landscape came at the Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference (IPACC), being attended by military leaders from 30 countries, ‘Hindustan Times’ informs. “The region faces a complex web of security challenges, including boundary disputes. The need to comprehensively deal with these challenges has led to the full …

Ukraine bombshell: Millions of EU citizens are praying Putin will win

10:35 28.09.2023

Ukraine bombshell: Millions of EU citizens are praying Putin will win

Whisper it quietly but Eastern European attitudes towards the war in Ukraine are beginning to turn in Russia's favour or at least moving away from Ukraine, informs London “Express” with quite a surprise. Peek behind the curtain at attitudes and trends among those in Russia's former sphere of influence and …

West blames BRICS: Dollar in danger

10:33 28.09.2023

West blames BRICS: Dollar in danger

“De-dollarizing” the world economy could have dangerous consequences for the United States. The BRICS alliance — originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — took a major step toward flexing its communal currency muscle at its recent summit in South Africa, writes ‘The New York Post’. Six new …

NATO's goal is Arctic. Finland – the path to the goal

10:32 28.09.2023

NATO's goal is Arctic. Finland – the path to the goal

After decades of going it alone in security issues, Finns are finding that life in a large alliance is complex, expensive and deeply political. Now Northern Europe and the Arctic more important for the NATO security, The New York Times stresses. Finland cast aside decades of military nonalignment and self-reliance …

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