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NATO is engaged in a de facto military confrontation with Russia

11:47 28.03.2023

NATO is engaged in a de facto military confrontation with Russia

Now and then, even the most seasoned politician happens to slip up and accidently speak the truth. This is what occurred during a recent debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, when the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock openly stated that “we are fighting a war against …

Free will trumps determinism in Gulf politics

11:46 28.03.2023

Free will trumps determinism in Gulf politics

China’s mediation to normalise Saudi-Iranian diplomatic ties has been widely welcomed internationally, especially in the West Asian region. A clutch of unhappy states that do not want to see China stealing a march on any front, even if it advances the cause of world peace, mutely watched, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, …

Still spinning the Iraq war 20 years later

11:43 28.03.2023

Still spinning the Iraq war 20 years later

The U.S. rush to war against Iraq 20 years ago marked the worst strategic decision of any U.S. president in history, and the worst intelligence scandal as well, writes Melvin A. Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and …

Chad nationalized all assets and rights of Esso Chad

11:41 28.03.2023

Chad nationalized all assets and rights of Esso Chad

PThe President of the Transition of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, by decree N°0465/PT/PM/MHE/2023 of March 23, 2023, nationalized all the assets and all the rights of any kind arising from the Conventions, Exploration permits, Exploitation Authorizations and Hydrocarbon Transport Authorizations of ESSO Exploration and Production Chad Inc, informs Le …

Who stands behind the sabotage at the Nord Stream

11:16 28.03.2023

Who stands behind the sabotage at the Nord Stream

The Security Council failed to adopt a resolution, put forward by the representative of the Russian Federation, which would have established an international independent investigative commission into the September 2022 “acts of sabotage” committed on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. By a vote of 3 in …

Russian security chief: We possess weapons “capable of wiping out any enemy, including US”

11:15 28.03.2023

Russian security chief: We possess weapons “capable of wiping out any enemy, including US”

Russia possesses advanced unique weapons capable of wiping out any enemy, including the United States, Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev (photo) said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily. "Russia is patient and does not intimidate anyone with its military advantage. However, it possesses advanced unique weapons capable of …

Serbian President Vučić asks NATO: Who gave the alliance the right to kill Serbs in 1999?

12:05 27.03.2023

Serbian President Vučić asks NATO: Who gave the alliance the right to kill Serbs in 1999?

Consequences of NATO's "humanitarian intervention" in Yugoslavia in 1999: - The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia is an illegal military aggression carried out WITHOUT the sanctions of the UN Security Council. - The total number of civilian deaths is over 1,700, of which 400 are children. More than 10 thousand people …

AUKUS: The war drive against China

12:04 27.03.2023

AUKUS: The war drive against China

The hawkish disposition of media outlets in a number of countries in shrieking for war is becoming palpable, writes Binoy Kampmark, a Commonwealth scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, he also lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The Fairfax press in Australia gave a less than admirable example of this in …

West sends depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine: MEP to Warmongers – “You Make Me Sick!”

12:03 27.03.2023

West sends depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine: MEP to Warmongers – “You Make Me Sick!”

Those who have been following events in Ukraine will know of the bloodshed and destruction taking place in that country, especially if they go beyond mainstream media reports. It was a wholly avoidable conflict that was largely engineered in Washington by a clique of neoconservatives who have been responsible for …

There is optimism that Syria stands to gain out of Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

11:21 27.03.2023

There is optimism that Syria stands to gain out of Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the US occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the US is reacting, but there are signs that it is likely being proactive to create new facts on the ground, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent …

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