Thailand is preparing for the first general election, scheduled for 24 March, since the 2014 coup d'état. An intense election… More►
Politics
06.03.2019
No Afghanistan, No Peace Plan Needed
In spite of Washington’s claims that it pursues an Afghan settlement, it has been reluctant to put an end to its military campaign in this country, trying to secure the alignment of political chess pieces on the Afghan board in a such a way instead that it will ensure this country…
Central Asia -
Afghanistan
05.03.2019
EU-Arab League Summit: Lots of Senseless Fuss
The magnificent Egyptian resort Sharm El Sheikh was closed to tourists for a whole week. Instead, it was flooded with Egyptian policemen and other law enforcement agencies as well as hundreds of security personnel from Europe. What was going on? It turns out that the first ever EU-Arab…
Middle East
04.03.2019
OPCW Syria Report Cripples Western "Chemical Weapons" Narrative
The OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) has presented its final report regarding an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018. Despite attempts by the Western media to hail it as “proof” that the Syrian government used chemical weapons…
Middle East -
Syria
04.03.2019
Foreign Tour Undertaken by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
In the second half of February, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, visited a number of Asian nations. His tour became a perceptible political event in the region of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Out of the countries, initially included…
Middle East -
Saudi Arabia
03.03.2019
The Trump – Kim Summit in Hanoi – was Trump forced to Walk?
Yes, Mr. Trump had to walk. As he didn’t get his way, he had the audacity to get up and walk out of a meeting with Kim Jong-un, the President of the DPRK, of North Korea. As arrogant as it behooves the king of a failing and crumbling empire. But did he walk by his own will?..
USA in the World
03.03.2019
Remembering Kwame Nkrumah: Africans’ Last Chance for True Equality
The story you are about to read reemphasizes how old empires still feed off the people of Africa. The cyclical nature of bad policy toward the people of the continent comes around again to the central theme – the Anglo-European domination of the world must not be challenged…
Africa
03.03.2019
Palestine: the Middle Eastern Equation with Many Unknowns
In the middle of February 2019, one of the main Israeli newspapers Haaretz published an article, which reported that, according to official Israeli statistics, 6.7 million Jews and 6.7 million Arabs lived in Israeli territories (including the occupied Palestinians lands) at the beginning of 2019. In the eyes of the opposition forces in Israel, these numbers yet again highlight the intensity of the Arab-Israeli…
Middle East -
Palestine
Economics
05.03.2019
Why is Saudi Arabia Turning towards ‘the East’?
Last two weeks saw Saudi Arabi’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) visiting Asia—Pakistan, India and China— for the first time ever. Promises of investment were made, signalling how Saudi Arabia was pushing towards expanding its economy globally. Although the visit seems to have been…
Middle East -
Saudi Arabia
21.02.2019
Iran: New Realities and New Challenges
It is still less than a year since the European Union gave birth to, in Pushkin’s words, “neither son nor daughter, frog nor mouse, but a creature none had seen before”. The “creature” we are referring to is the long–awaited financial mechanism for trade with Iran, which bears the name…
Middle East -
Iran
09.02.2019
Is Debt China’s Achilles Heel?
China’s credits to various countries along its much-discussed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the most ambitious infrastructure undertaking in history, have recently been criticized for drawing poor countries into a debt trap by extending huge credits. Myanmar is often cited, as well as Sri Lanka. Malaysia and Pakistan are renegotiating …
Eastern Asia -
China
05.02.2019
China, Germany and Japan at the Сentre of Davos 2019 Forum
The scheduled World Economic Forum, held at the end of January of this year in a Swiss town of Davos, was noteworthy in several ways. First of all we would like to highlight that its focus on Globalization 4.0 is a direct throwback to the times when the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution…
Europe
24.01.2019
Brace for Impact: Global Financial Crisis May be Just Around the Corner
The cyclical nature of the world economy, when every single decade ends in a major meltdown of the world financial results in a number of experts predicting a global crisis to take place in 2019. Everyone remembers the crisis of 2008, from which the West hasn’t fully recovered…
USA in the World
20.01.2019
The Tale of "Count" Soros and the Young Latvian State he Destroyed
All across the globe alternative media sites would typically describe George Soros as the mastermind of a “globalist” movement, who would undermine any society it can profit from through subversion, manipulation and trickery. As it’s been revealed by the Telegraph, George Soros, the billionaire…
Europe
16.01.2019
Comprehensive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Entered into Force
1 January 2019 marked the third day since the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) came into force. Irrespective of what will happen during this whole, still new year, the aforementioned event will remain among the most…
Eastern Asia -
Japan
Society
05.03.2019
Idlib –Reportage from the Last Front in Syria
For a while, all the guns have fallen silent. I am near Idlib, the last stronghold of the terrorists in Syria. The area where the deadliest anti-government fighters, most of them injected into Syria from Turkey, with Saudi, Qatari and Western ‘help’, are literally holed up, ready…
Middle East -
Syria
04.03.2019
Washington is fomenting a Religious Schism on its Quest for Global Domination
There’s no denying that wars on religious grounds have been among the most protracted and painful conflicts throughout human history, with no other form of conflict even coming close to the sheer amount of violence and bloodshed that such confrontations provoke. Predictably enough…
Russia in the World
02.03.2019
We’re Killing Off Our Vital Insects Too
Recent independent scientific studies indicate that we are threatening our vital global insect population, including of bees, with widespread extinction through massive deployment of agriculture pesticides. For most of us, insects such as flies or mosquitoes or wasps are nuisances…
USA in the World
02.03.2019
What's Behind Hollywood & CIA's Love for Black Power?
Anyone who watched the 2019 Academy Awards Ceremony could not help but notice a big emphasis on the African-American Community and its history. Meanwhile, as the Oscar Ceremony was taking place, the US Central Intelligence Agency began highlighting the film “Black Panther” on…
USA in the World
27.02.2019
The New Davos Gospel, Democratic Socialism Rescues Capitalism
Although ignored by the US media, the message to come out of The World Economic Forum this year was nothing short of revolutionary: the movers and shakers of the world have been informed that globalization is in need of a serious overhaul. As one lone congressman from…
Europe
27.02.2019
Is Ahn Hee-Jung’s Prison Sentence a Victory for the Feminist Movement or the Political Climate?
Not so long ago, within a context focusing on the status of women in South Korea, we looked at the case of Ahn Hee-jung, the former governor of South Chungcheong Province, whose secretary Kim Ji-eun in an interview broadcast live on cable television accused him of…
Eastern Asia -
South Korea
26.02.2019
New Studies Confirm Dangers of Glyphosate
Since the 1960s uproar over the dangers of widespread agri- culture use of the weed killer, DDT, no other herbicide or agriculture chemical has stirred as much widespread opposition as glyphosate. Glyphosate is the main and only publicly disclosed ingredient in the world-leading…
Europe
