By Tunç Akkoç The new Foreign Minister of Germany has had a quick start to her job. Annalena Baerbock, who flew to Paris on the first evening the day of the oath ceremony, made her first visit to France. Baerbock, who has made six trips in seven days, visited five cities, attended the G7 Foreign Ministers summit and the EU ...
Born 1942 in Bamako, Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author and political activist. She has served her country as Minister for Culture and Tourism from 1997 to 2000 and has also worked in United Nations Development Programme. Traoré has been and is a loud critic of globalization, neo-colonization and gender oppression. She has written several books that criticize the ...
The World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) has organized in cooperation with the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) its 15th annual forum on December 18 and 19 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The forum was titled this year “Rethinking economic analysis: Perspective of political economy”. Sessions were organized both online and in presence. More than 300 hundred speakers from ...
Hurricanes and the destruction they cause are spectacular. Despite appearing regularly in the American South, they are still considered to be dangerous and unpredictable. From a day to day perspective they are dangerous and destructive, but from a wider economic perspective, they potentially affect opportunities for recovery and GDP growth. Some of them, such as Katrina and Ida which occured ...
Life on earth – with all its organic forms and features – is under attack. Along with the raging and destructive capitalist system, a new threat has emerged as an inquisitorial ideology: “transhumanism”. In fact, transhumanism is merely a technologic metamorphosis, thus an adjusted application of the methods of capitalism on human nature. Some big-tech companies now have more resources ...
Last week the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. First was the normalization process that began between Turkey and Armenia. Second were the Vatan Party Chairman Dogu Perincek’s statements regarding the possible membership of some other Eurasian countries such as Iran, Russia, China or Tajikistan in the Organization of Turkic States. Third were the sharp ...
The process of normalization of relations between countries in the South Caucasus has begun. Especially the negotiations between Baku and Yerevan have started. Ankara and Moscow also support the decisions taken in meetings of presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan. Turkey and Russia are also working actively on the topic of the “3 + 3” cooperation ...
International politics is getting a new definition for an act of aggression: Not using a country a transit space for gas transfers and consequently not paying the according fees. The newly elected Foreign Minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock presented the argumentation in a recent interview to the German TV channel ZDF. Asked about the operation of the Nord Stream 2 ...
Following a referendum in October 2020, a Constitutional Assembly was established in Chie, whose members were elected by the population in May 2021. The Assembly has the task to develop a draft for a new constitution, which after being approved by the Assembly itself, will be presented to a referendum. This is expected for 2022. Left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won ...
Turkey has once again declared its readiness to mediate in the Russian-Ukrainian relations. Recently, the Minister of National Defence of Turkey Hulusi Akar proposed this at a meeting with the participation of the Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces Yaşar Güler and other commanders, noting that Ankara is ready to provide all kinds of support for ...