Impressions from the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum – Part 2: Multipolarity cannot be reversed

By Işıkgün Akfırat, Vladivostok, Russia The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia’s easternmost city, witnessed China-Russia-India unity. Speaking at the Presidential Session, Li Zhanshu, second leader of the People’s Republic of China’s after the President Xi Jinping, said that Asian countries would lead humanity out of the current challenges. The 7th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which took place in Russia’s ...

100,000 Czechs in Prague: What did they say about NATO, Brussels and sanctions against Russia?

On September 3, around 100,000 Czechs staged a massive demonstration in the central square of Prague. Two of the organizers were the Communist Party of Czech Republic and the Party for Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD). The demonstration brought together traditional left and right wing parties chanting “Withdraw from NATO”, “No to Brussels’ slave government” and “No to sanctions against ...

Impressions from The Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum – Part 1: A meeting of The Rising Asia in The Land Of The Rising Sun

By Işıkgün Akfırat, Vladivostok, Russia Russia’s easternmost port city of Vladivostok has been the host for the Eastern Economic Forum September 5-8. In his speech at the forum, Russian President Putin said that “the world has recently undergone irreversible tectonic shifts”, and that “We have to treat all countries as equals”. Russia’s easternmost port city of Vladivostok has been the ...

Libya’s security and future cannot be left to the West’s mercy

By Cansu Yiğit In recent weeks, Tripoli has witnessed renewed clashes. These demonstrate – again – that NATO and its political arm, the United Nations, are only capable to destroy states and cause disintegration. They are not able to establish an order. Lots of people may have not liked the regime of Qaddafi. But his overthrow has not provided freedom. ...

Eurasia getting wider and deeper: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is preparing its next presidential summit to be held on September 15 and 16 in Samarkand, the capital of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is the currently chairing the organization. The summit is prone to both widen the scope of the SCO as well as deepen its areas of cooperation. Let’s start with the first. West Asia joining ...

Brazil will deem priority to Africa

Reporting from Rio da Janerio, Brazil In 22 August, during the launch of the book “Brazil in the world. 8 years of Lula’s government”, the former Brazilian president remarked that if he is reelected next October, his country’s foreign policy will be once again “active and haughty”. He emphasized that Brazil never sought to be hegemonic but rather proactive, respectful, ...

“The French government and state keep considering North Africa and Middle East as their backyard, but that period is finished now”

Political Scientist and UWI expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements about Türkiye and Russia in Russia Today broadcast. French President Macron, “Who wants Türkiye to be the only power in the world that talks to Russia?” made a statement. Right after, he made statements targeting Türkiye during his visit to Algeria. Russia Today asked UWI expert ...

U.S., PKK and Daesh in Syria

On September 7, Turkish media reported that Turkish special services conducted a joint special operation to detain one of the leaders of the Daesh terrorist group in eastern Türkiye. Security forces from the Gaziantep Provincial Gendarmerie Command and Gendarmerie Syria Task Force joined the operation, the Sabah newspaper reported Wednesday. The apprehended criminal’s name is Ramo Muhammed al-Hamed. The newspaper ...

Possible outcomes of a nuclear meltdown in Zaporozhe

“It cannot be ruled out that in a few weeks there will be a nuclear war in Europe…” Head of the Swiss Federal Finance Department Ueli Maurer, August 15 2022 Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporozhe Nuclear Power Plant, currently under the control of the Russian forces, continue to intensify each day. The Ukrainian President Zelensky has announced to the world ...

Ukraine: A war in miniskirts?

By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Although it is insufficiently known: There are perhaps few social scientists who have theorized as much and as well about war as Vladimir I. Lenin. When studying the First World War, he said that: “the proletariat fights and will always fight unfailingly against war, but without forgetting for a moment that wars can only be ...