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FOCUS: “Everything is going well – though not for the West, but for Vladimir Putin”

12:18 10.10.2023

FOCUS: “Everything is going well – though not for the West, but for Vladimir Putin”

The Russian economy is expected to grow by about 1.5 percent in 2023, despite predictions of its imminent collapse due to Western sanctions. The system built by Vladimir Putin turned out to be very stable. Therefore, there is a reason to take a closer look at the system and draw …

Paul Craig Roberts: The United States is on the verge of becoming a tyranny

12:14 10.10.2023

Paul Craig Roberts: The United States is on the verge of becoming a tyranny

The GEOFOR editorial board asked Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy (USA), a PhD in Economics and US Undersecretary of Treasury in the Reagan administration, to find out why Kevin McCarthy is leaving the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives, how the preparation …

View from America: "The next 12 months will be the most explosive in History"

12:12 10.10.2023

View from America: "The next 12 months will be the most explosive in History"

"We're In the middle of a revolution. The next 12 months will be the most explosive in history," – Victor Davis Hanson warns Tucker Carlson. Historian Victor Davis Hanson sat down with Tucker Carlson to discuss his perspective on the current political climate in the US, asserting that American liberalism …

EU Foreign Affairs Council in Kyiv: Borrel is generous with promises and stingy with money

12:12 10.10.2023

EU Foreign Affairs Council in Kyiv: Borrel is generous with promises and stingy with money

“Last Monday, we met in Kyiv for an informal EU Foreign Affairs Council, for the first time outside the Union and in a country at war,” Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, writes at his official blog. …

Israel: New war, oil and geopolitics

12:08 09.10.2023

Israel: New war, oil and geopolitics

A surprise multifront attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas will likely lead to a massive military retaliation on Gaza and possibly to a wider conflagration with repercussions beyond the Middle East, writes Bloomberg. The flare-up — involving infiltrations, capture of soldiers and civilians, and thousands of rockets — …

Former US Secretary of Defense: USA – the ‘Dysfunctional Superpower’

12:06 09.10.2023

Former US Secretary of Defense: USA – the ‘Dysfunctional Superpower’

The Foreign Affairs magazine published a very revealing article by the former US Secretary of Defense (from 2006 to 2011). Mr. Robert Gates is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and calls on the US authorities to come to their senses so as not to lose the global competition …

WSJ: Many central banks and governments around the world want to kick their dollar addiction

12:05 09.10.2023

WSJ: Many central banks and governments around the world want to kick their dollar addiction

Yes, many central banks and governments around the world want to kick their dollar addiction. They aren’t getting very far — except when forced, notes ‘The Wall Street Journal’. The percentage of official foreign-exchange reserves allocated to US dollars globally was 58.9% in the second quarter of the year, figures …

MEPs against Freedom of Press: EU will not protect journalists from ‘government spying’

12:05 09.10.2023

MEPs against Freedom of Press: EU will not protect journalists from ‘government spying’

The hope for a full ban on the use of spyware against journalists in the EU is “dead,” after MEPs backed watered-down media regulations that allow the authorities to infect phones in the name of national security, media freedom advocates claim. The European Parliament debated a series of amendments to …

Why there is a claim that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund Palestinian militant group Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel”?

11:36 08.10.2023

Why there is a claim that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund Palestinian militant group Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel”?

A Biden Administration official denied a baseless claim espoused by GOP lawmakers and former President Donald Trump that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund Palestinian militant group Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel Saturday morning, which Trump claimed “many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration,” though no evidence supports any …

The Washington Times: “Combat fatigue? Cracks in Western unity…”

10:58 08.10.2023

The Washington Times: “Combat fatigue? Cracks in Western unity…”

Kyiv may face another enemy that’s perhaps equally dangerous in the long run: the weakening of Western resolve, notes ‘The Washington Times’. The unity of the U.S. and its leading allies is showing early signs that support for Ukraine won’t last indefinitely. In the U.S., leading candidates for the Republican …

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