Vietnam’s rethinking of the Belt and Road Initiative is not an act of weakness, but an action in response to changed realities. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Vietnam has walked a cautious path on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for years, not wishing to become too entangled in Beijing’s geoeconomic orbit. While Hanoi has publicly endorsed the BRI, its participation ...
The Shared Desperation of Trump, Netanyahu, and Zelenskyy By Yunus Emre Özgün The global economy is once again exposing its extreme fragility in the wake of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. As the tension in the Middle East mutates into a global energy shock, the US decision to suspend sanctions on Russian oil for 30 days has brought ...
Emancipation will come from the working class’s capacity to articulate its own materialist and sovereign project. By Yenny Betancur Gutiérrez* The 2026 elections in Colombia reflect a structural crisis of sovereignty, marked by identity fragmentation, the influence of international actors, and the weakness of the State to control its territory, economy, and institutions. Analyzing the political reality of Colombia in ...
How has it been proven that economic and military superiority on paper is insufficient? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The Strait of Hormuz has undoubtedly been a key choke point for energy and trade routes throughout history.However, at this point in time, Hormuz has become a full-fledged choke point; despite accounting for only 20 percent of global flow, it not ...
Interview with Rayan Al-Aziz, an official from the Ansarullah Press Office. By Özgür Altınbaş Israel became the target of Yemeni missiles on the morning of March 28. On the 29th day of the war, the Ansarullah-led Yemeni operation announced their involvement in the conflict following the strike. Now, a new and challenging front has opened for the US and Israel. ...
Stuck in Yesterday’s Alliance By Mehmet Enes Beşer The liberal world order is being reshaped by a significant change wave. The times of unipolar hegemony are almost waning. The multipolar world of great complexity, rivalry, and interdependence is taking shape. With growing regional blocs, middle powers, and non-Western power, the question for the small nation like the Philippines is no ...
Attack on Turkish-operated oil tanker Altura: Bringing the US’ plunder and bullying policy to the Black Sea On March 26, a Turkish-operated oil tanker named Altura was attacked in the Black Sea. Türkiye’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu made a statement, saying “A foreign-flagged ship operated by a Turkish company, which had loaded crude oil from Russia, reported ...
The speech of B.R. Deepak at the forum ‘Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the Elites – Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!’ By B.R. Deepak, former Director of Center of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies of Nehru University, New Delhi The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) organized an online forum on March 2, 2026, titled “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity ...
Negotiations, Ceasefire, and the Path Forward As the joint war waged by the United States and Israel—two nuclear-armed states, one of which possesses the most powerful military in the world—approaches its first month, developments on the ground indicate that none of the assumptions held by Washington and Tel Aviv at the outset of the conflict have materialized. The aggressor forces ...
French colonizers have distorted archeological findings to legitimize occupation and colonization. By Sahifa Sharif, archeologist All colonial societies aimed for one thing and only one thing, erase the identities of colonized countries and diminish their civilization to the animal rank, France was not against this ideology, it was one of the countries that celebrate this unhuman ideology and even practiced ...
ASEAN’s energy future crisis and structural risk are not something that can be solved on the supply-side alone. What it requires is an end-to-end system solution by technology, policy, finance, governance, and regional solidarity. By Mehmet Enes Beşer ASEAN member countries’ energy industries are changing as a result of rising demand, decarbonization requirements, and complex geopolitics. While the region is ...
Interview with Dr. Mostafa Najafi, a political affairs expert By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran The recent war between Iran on the one hand and the United States and Israel on the other is not merely a military confrontation at the regional level. It is also an event that has carried significant consequences for Iran’s domestic politics and the ...