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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 …

Counter Punch: “Neither the Yemeni fighters nor the Palestinians are the enemies of the people of the US”

11:38 19.01.2024

Counter Punch: “Neither the Yemeni fighters nor the Palestinians are the enemies of the people of the US”

The recent attacks on Yemen by US and British military forces are not about protecting international shipping lanes. Nor are they about protecting imperial troops in lands where they are not wanted and don’t belong. Simply put, they are about supporting Israel’s murderous slaughter in Gaza and maintaining US imperialism’s …

How to decolonize minds

11:30 19.01.2024

How to decolonize minds

After Ukraine and Gaza, the line between the West and the Rest (what is today called the Global South) has been drawn clearer and clearer. To be treated as equals to the West, the Global South must decolonize its minds What does the Decline of the West mean? – Аndrew …

Emmanuel Todd: “I clearly document the dynamics of the decline of Protestant passionarity in the West”

11:24 18.01.2024

Emmanuel Todd: “I clearly document the dynamics of the decline of Protestant passionarity in the West”

French sociologist Emmanuel Todd (photo), in an interview with the newspaper ‘Le Point’, talks about the decline of the West, about “the defeat it inflicts on itself.” There are many reasons for this decline: the disappearance of the nation-state in the West, increasingly replaced by transnational structures; deindustrialization, which was …

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