Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, candidate of the Free Party (Partido de Libertad y Refundacion – LIBRE) for the presidential elections of November 28, seems to have achieved a landslide victory. Though official results have not been announced yet, Castro, who calls herself a “democratic socialist”, has a lead of 20% over the next competitor with more than 50% of the ...
By Adem Kılıç* We are gradually leaving behind the era, when the USA and the European Union had created international institutions and organizations as a center of gravity and were able to design the whole world using these structures. Having a great influence in the “military” and “economic” areas over African and Middle Eastern countries, the West has always pursued ...
While the 2022 Winter Olympic games in Beijing, People’s Republic of China are getting closer, the US and some Western countries are considering a so-called diplomatic boycott of the games. United World International expert Adnan Akfırat wrote an opinion article on the matter for the Chinese Global Times. Below we present the article of Akfırat. The original text can be ...
By Caner Karavit* The painting “Machines for Turkey”, one of the masterpieces of Ryabinin, is not well known neither in Russia, nor in the West. (Figure 1). This is due to the fact that the painting is only exhibited occasionally in the exhibition halls of the museums. The painting is in the collection of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ...
By Mehnoor Singh “The sealing-off measures of the East Berlin government did not increase, but lessened, the danger of a third world war.” – French Premier Paul Reynaud, 19 August 1961 The Berlin Wall has always been seen as the wall that divided the people of Germany, the Wall that divided Europe. It was seen as an evil Communist creation ...
The Atlantic, a well-known news and analysis website in the United States, published an outstanding article last week. The sentence highlighted in Anne Applebaum’s review piece headlined ‘The Bad Guys Are Winning‘ perfectly summarized the topic: “If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st ...
Today, in Latin America, as in other parts of the world, factual powers are developing and consolidating while imposing a specific functioning and orientation on capitalism. This is not always recognized, as they move outside the discourses of democracy. They circulate the world in impunity, they move in an area where there is no rule of law. Factual powers impose ...
By Nardine Ali / Cairo Did Sisi give the green light to Burhan’s coup in Sudan? Sudan has experienced everything, from civil war to division into two states, to terrorism and being governed by a tyrant and war criminal for over 30 years. The country finally had the opportunity to experience democracy under a joint government between civilians and the ...
Last week the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. First was the sharp fluctuation of the exchange rates of the Turkish Lira, and the sudden 22% drop in value. Second was the release of the Israeli couple Mordi and Natali Oknin, who had been arrested after taking photos of President Erdogan’s residence. Third was the ...
The final scrutiny of Argentina’s legislative elections, held last Sunday, November 14, has not yet concluded. However, the computations obtained and endorsed by the National Electoral Chamber (CNE) show little possibility of significant variations in the current projections. Based on this, the result of these national elections can be read in various ways, for example, from the 24 electoral districts ...