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Newsweek: “Putin scores a win in Turkey's election”

12:09 30.05.2023

Newsweek: “Putin scores a win in Turkey's election”

Russian President Vladimir Putin secured a victory in Turkey's presidential election results on Sunday, writes ‘Newsweek’. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared to beat back a challenge from Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the center-left Republican People's Party (CHP), winning his third five-year term since taking office in 2014. Erdoğan …

Larry Johnson: The aftermath of Bakhmut and why the CIA is in trouble

12:08 30.05.2023

Larry Johnson: The aftermath of Bakhmut and why the CIA is in trouble

The West is desperate to avoid having any meaningful discussion or review of the Battle of Bakhmut because it was such a massive loss. Think about it — a small “private” paramilitary force backed by former Chef with no military experience, forced Ukraine’s NATO-trained and supplied Army to retreat, notes …

British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine

11:10 29.05.2023

British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made an unexpected trip to Britain last week on a whistle-stop tour of European capitals, pleading for more powerful and longer-range weapons to use in his war against Russia. What was hard to ignore once again was the extent to which the UK is playing an …

Post-Bakhmut scenario in Ukraine war: “Game changed”?

11:08 29.05.2023

Post-Bakhmut scenario in Ukraine war: “Game changed”?

Meanwhile, in a series of showy incidents, Ukraine began hitting targets in Russia with US and British supplied weapons. There have been sporadic artillery and Himars missile attacks on Russian civilians in border towns; two drone attacks on the Kremlin; and British Storm Shadow cruise missile strikes on targets in …

Bloomberg: Germany, Europe’s economic engine, is breaking down

11:07 29.05.2023

Bloomberg: Germany, Europe’s economic engine, is breaking down

Germany has been Europe’s economic engine for decades, pulling the region through one crisis after another. But that resilience is breaking down, and it spells danger for the whole continent, writes Bloomberg. Decades of flawed energy policy, the demise of combustion-engine cars and a sluggish transition to new technologies are …

Hiroshima G7 summit: rhetoric and reality

11:01 29.05.2023

Hiroshima G7 summit: rhetoric and reality

G7, however powerful it still is in the global system, is no longer in the same dominant position as before, recognised years ago with the decision to form the G20 where other major world economies are also represented, insists Kanwal Sibal, a former Indian Foreign Secretary and India’s Ambassador to …

Poland loves Nazis when they massacre Russians, but not when they did the same to Poles

10:26 28.05.2023

Poland loves Nazis when they massacre Russians, but not when they did the same to Poles

Poland wants Zelensky to apologize for WW2 Ukrainian Nazi massacre. Ukrainian President should assume more responsibility for his nation when it comes to the Volyn massacre, a mass murder committed by Ukrainian nationalists against ethnic Poles during WWII, a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry, Lukasz Jasina, has said. In …

British report: Russia adapted arms and tactics ahead of Ukraine offensive

10:24 28.05.2023

British report: Russia adapted arms and tactics ahead of Ukraine offensive

Widespread perceptions of Russian army weakness are in some cases either out of date or misconceived according to the 30-page report by the UK’s Royal United Services Institute. While the report described a military which is often dysfunctional, over-reliant on artillery and suffering poor morale, it said the focus on …

‘Market Fundamentalism’ - is it an obstacle to social progress?

10:23 28.05.2023

‘Market Fundamentalism’ - is it an obstacle to social progress?

In a crisis like this, the most important postulates of the Western economy are subject to revision. Some economists began to ask uncomfortable questions, such as: “How efficient the market is?” It seems that we are one step away from how his deification will stop into his curse. An article …

African Initiative on Ukraine settlement cements Africa’s new Global Role

10:21 28.05.2023

African Initiative on Ukraine settlement cements Africa’s new Global Role

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that Moscow and Kiev had agreed to receive a mission of African leaders with their peace initiative for the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later confirmed that the African mission was planning to visit Russia in mid-June or early July, notes Muhammad …

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