Mexico’s Fourth Transformation is continuing in a high pace. President López Obrador, who faces strong resistance both from domestic political forces as well as the United States, pursues reforms in energy, banking and agriculture. Meanwhile, his party MORENA (Movement of National Regeneration) is fighting a strong battle with its ally, the Labor Party (Partido Del Trabajo) both in the parliament ...
By Said Ali Batrouni * With a significant shift in Türkiye’s strategy toward the Assad regime in Syria, where he has been insisting on regime change, Erdogan stated that Türkiye’s goal in Syria is to find a political solution to the country’s decade-long civil war, rather than defeating Assad. Ankara’s recent statement that it is willing to normalize relations with ...
Great Britain rose to the status of monetary hegemon in 1871 with widespread adoption of the gold standard. During the gold standard of the late nineteenth century, Britain became the greatest exporter of financial capital. Its capital city, London, also became center of the world gold, money, and financial markets. The end of World War II witnessed the recentralization of ...
3 critical issues were on the public agenda in Türkiye in the last week. Turkish officials’ statements regarding the talks with the Syrian government and a normalization process were dropped on the public agenda like a bombshell. Secondly, the Vatan Party’s official resolution about Türkiye’s overall situation resonated throughout the general public. And finally, the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games of ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Already the result of the first electoral round in the Colombian presidential elections held on May 29, revealed a clear perspective on the future of that country’s relationship with Venezuela and established the certainty that it would have a transcendent change with respect to of what happened in the most recent past. The two candidates ...
While Egypt is witnessing initiatives from the authority to contain the state of discontent in the street caused by economic pressures on citizens, such as the release of groups of people imprisoned for political reasons and those not involved in violent crimes, as well as the start of the national dialogue work called for by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last ...
UWI expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated the future of the Ukraine crisis, the role of Europe and Turkey’s mediation efforts for Sputnik Türkiye. The original text can be read here. Below is the text as published by Sputnik Türkiye. UWI expert Güzaltan evaluated Turkey’s mediation efforts in the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine with the following statements: “Western countries, ...
In the third part of our interview with Adnan Akfırat, author of the book Special Warfare in Pentagon and CIA Documents, we discussed the characteristics of “proxy wars” and the many applications of Special Warfare from Afghanistan to Türkiye. In this chapter on the current objectives of Special Warfare, Adnan Akfırat assessed whether the US has a power commensurate with ...
There is nothing as natural as the normalization of relations between Türkiye and Syria. This should have happened much earlier, but it is very important that such progress has taken place, albeit with a delay. UWI expert, political scientist and writer Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the relations between Türkiye and Syria and explained the details of the visit of Doğu Perinçek, ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Perhaps it is a commonplace to say that in the face of the obvious inability of the Ukrainian and NATO governments to achieve success in the war arena, the main war effort has increasingly begun to be waged in the media. Here, the United States and the West still retain a great advantage given the ...