Various layers of conflict in the protests of Los Angeles. By Fernando Esteche The militarization of Los Angeles Los Angeles is bleeding. In the streets of a city that for decades stood as a symbol of the American dream, today the cries of resistance of those who built its greatness from the shadows resonate. The massive raids by Immigration and ...
The more Ankara manages to diminish Western, European, and British influence over Kyiv, the greater the possibility of achieving peace becomes. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek shared his views on the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. Mehmet Perinçek stated that peace talks have been sabotaged by outside powers. He said that the ...
Revolutionary Failure and Political Realignment By Halim Gençoğlu The iconic image of Che Guevara, cigar in mouth and eyes burning with revolutionary fervor, is typically associated with Latin America. However, in 1965, the Argentine revolutionary found himself deep in the jungles of Central Africa, attempting to ignite an anti-imperialist uprising in the newly independent but unstable Democratic Republic of the ...
Meeting the Iranian Foreign Minister in Cairo By Mohamed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt Amid a warm atmosphere, the Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi came to Naguib Mahfouz Restaurant for dinner on Monday evening, before leaving for Lebanon the next day. Remarkably, three senior statesmen came to meet with Araghchi: Amr Moussa, former Secretary-General of the Arab League, and former ...
It’s Something More Precocious. By Mehmet Enes Beşer In an increasingly bipolar global order—autocracy vs. democracy, West vs. East, United States vs. China—Vietnam doesn’t fit quite so well. Honed to high definition by the press into either China’s potential enemy in the South China Sea or, conversely, as a natural ally in socialist solidarity, Vietnam is neither. Hanoi-Beijing is an ...
Why Türkiye and Cambodia Must Build a Strategic Partnership in Farming By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the world’s food system is being increasingly stretched to the breaking point by climate change, geopolitical rivalry, and resource scarcity, agricultural cooperation is no longer a humanitarian policy agenda—now it’s a national security and regional stability issue. For Türkiye and Cambodia, both equally dependent ...
The US plans to conduct the logistics of its war in that region through the Baltic Sea and Eastern Europe. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain In my previous article, I explained that inland trade routes could be useful only when connected to the sea. Otherwise, thousands of kilometers of land corridors linked end to end would fall ...
Consolidation of progressive and left-wing forces in the struggle against neo-fascism and neo-nazism in modern society and against World War III. by Nil Malyguine (Communist Party of Switzerland) The dream of a united Europe has undoubted power over people’s minds. Indeed, it is hard to say that a ‘common European home’ is a bad thing a priori. Who would not ...
It Can Pay For Its Own Future. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the pecking order in the world’s capital economy, Europe has long been at the top of the list as one of the safest and most developed sources of foreign direct investment (FDI). For most of the developing world, European capital has been a capital with credibility, technology transfer, ...
How the trade war began in 2018. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Despite Trump’s pragmatic decision to seek rapprochement with China that would foster ongoing high-level communication and stimulate cooperation, an atmosphere of uncertainty began to surround the relationship between the two countries, given the contradictory signals emanating from Washington. The presidents’ conversation on February 10, 2017, did nothing to calm ...