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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 …

German Propaganda against Russia: Ridiculous still dangerous

11:24 18.01.2024

German Propaganda against Russia: Ridiculous still dangerous

As the West continues to wage a hybrid proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, supplying the Kyiv regime with modern weapons systems, it has been hyping up allegations of a broader “Russian threat” for all of Western Europe and NATO – claims that have been dismissed as false and ridiculed …

The Siege of Leningrad: An anniversary West would rather forget

11:23 18.01.2024

The Siege of Leningrad: An anniversary West would rather forget

An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history is coming up in another ten days that remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the ...

FP: U.S. Middle East policy has failed

11:22 18.01.2024

FP: U.S. Middle East policy has failed

Following Hamas’s brutal massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Israel’s massive military campaign against the group has brought the Gaza Strip to the brink of annihilation and the Middle East to the edge of a broader war. A slew of incidents since then suggests that the conflict could escalate …

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