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View from USA: 2024 will make 2023 look like ‘a walk in the park’ but we can make it through ‘the storm’

11:09 13.10.2023

View from USA: 2024 will make 2023 look like ‘a walk in the park’ but we can make it through ‘the storm’

The convergence of multiple red-alert warnings is staring us in the face, all pointing to a major “event” of some type in the upcoming weeks or months. Whatever it is, this new catastrophe will hasten the collapse of the old world system, a collapse of economies and political structures that …

Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran

11:06 13.10.2023

Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran

The Israeli prime minister’s persistent obsession with the Islamic Republic may finally drag the US into another disastrous regional war, Al Jazeera worries. After Hamas’s attack on October 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may finally be able to act on his threats against Iran. The gruesome scenes in southern …

How the Israel-Hamas war exposed the EU’s irrelevance

11:06 13.10.2023

How the Israel-Hamas war exposed the EU’s irrelevance

At least Europe no longer has to endure that hackneyed Henry Kissinger quip about whom to call if you want “to call Europe.” No one’s calling anyway. Of the myriad geostrategic illusions that have been destroyed in recent days, the most sobering realization for anyone residing on the Continent should …

View from China: Changing landscape in Middle East may impact course of conflict in Ukraine

11:04 13.10.2023

View from China: Changing landscape in Middle East may impact course of conflict in Ukraine

As the US sends an aircraft carrier, war ships and jets to aid Israel after Hamas' unprecedented surprise attack near the Gaza Strip, think tanks and observers are wondering if the Palestine-Israel conflict will shift the focus and change the course on the battlefield of Ukraine, as the US finds …

Vladimir Putin: “We are defending our traditions, our culture, and our people”

11:23 12.10.2023

Vladimir Putin: “We are defending our traditions, our culture, and our people”

Photo: Kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 20th anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club and answered many questions. Research Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club Fyodor Lukyanov acts as the discussion’s moderator. Key points of discussion. Vladimir Putin: We all know this, …

‘Al-Aqsa Flood’: The surprise is that some are surprised

11:22 12.10.2023

‘Al-Aqsa Flood’: The surprise is that some are surprised

The writing was clearly written on the wall. Two years ago, a missile campaign was unleashed from Gaza on Tel Aviv in response to the Temple Mount Movement’s religious zealotry and invasion of Al-Aqsa mosque, writes ‘Al Mayadeen’ from Lebanon. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has caught Israel and the US by …

NYT: Russia’s economy is increasingly structured

11:22 12.10.2023

NYT: Russia’s economy is increasingly structured

Total output, which the Russian Central Bank estimates may rise as much as 2.5 percent this year, could outpace the European Union and possibly even the United States. Since Russia sent soldiers across the border in February 2022, its economy has had to adapt to dramatic changes with astonishing speed, …

‘Rail war’ in the USA: Train carrying military vehicles derails in Colorado Springs

11:19 12.10.2023

‘Rail war’ in the USA: Train carrying military vehicles derails in Colorado Springs

A freight train operated by Union Pacific Railway, hauling heavy military vehicles, derailed near downtown Colorado Springs Monday night (photo). Local news KKTV 11 reported eight train cars hauling heavy military equipment derailed along Las Vegas Street, just south of Circle Drive, around 1830 local time. At approximately 6:30 PM …

RFK Jr. launches independent bid for president, leaving Democratic race against Biden

11:17 12.10.2023

RFK Jr. launches independent bid for president, leaving Democratic race against Biden

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (photo) is dropping out of the Democratic primary race against Biden to launch an independent campaign for president next year. Speaking to a crowd in front of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, he cast his decision to leave the party his family has symbolized for …

Bloomberg: More bloodshed will never resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict

13:52 11.10.2023

Bloomberg: More bloodshed will never resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict

Israel’s allies and enablers — starting with the US — need to convince Netanyahu to end the military occupation and enter negotiations for a lasting peace that gives Palestinians a real homeland and Israel a secure future, writes Bloomberg. There is no justification for violence against civilians — not by …

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