US media reports that up to hundreds of pounds of TNT equivalent explosives were used to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline. The actual destruction of Europe’s critical energy infrastructure raises more and more questions. On September 26, damages to the gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 became public. The pipeline was shut down at the time of the ...
On September 30, a military coup took place in Burkina Faso, the second in 2022. As a result, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was overthrown and Captain Ibrahim Traoré replaced him in power. The constitution was suspended, state institutions were dissolved, borders were closed and the army imposed a curfew throughout the country from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Meanwhile, ...
by Ana Dagorret / Rio da Janerio After an election day that showed a completely divided country, Brazil is heading to a runoff election between Lula Da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro. Although polls of voting intention showed a possibility of victory for Lula already in the first round, with more than ten points of advantage over the current president, the ...
Most recently, the EU executive proposed on September 18th suspending €7.5 billion in EU funding for Budapest, or about a third of the total amount of cohesion funds that Hungary is allocated until 2027. We made an extensive interview with Ferenc Almassy, Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Post, on the causes of the dispute and the accusations against Victor Orban and Fidezs ...
US President Joseph Biden visited the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico on October 4 to examine the damage caused by hurricane Fiona. He promised all help to the island, which is a so-called “unincorporated organized territory of the US with local self-government”. Two weeks after the hurricane passed, the main energy provider LUMA energy reported that 120.000 homes were still ...
United World International expert Onur Sinan Guzaltan evaluated Turkish-Russian relations, the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and the future of the war in Ukraine in a Russia Today broadcast. Stating that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline was organized by the USA, Guzaltan drew attention to the possibility of similar attempts of attack against the TurkStream in the ...
United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Azerbaijani press about the latest developments in the South Caucasus. We present the interview, which was published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. Subheadings belong to UWI. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said that he could meet with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Prague, where ...
The 2000s were the years when the Social Democrat parties in Europe began to melt down. They were incapable of providing solutions to the raging neoliberal attacks of the globalization. With the financial crisis of 2008, which started in the US and spread across Europe, this meltdown accelerated. The leading Social Democratic parties in Europe, the German Social Democratic Party ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech at the signing ceremony of the agreements on the joining of 4 regions of Ukraine to Russia. United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the speech, which echoed around the world, for Sputnik Türkiye. We are publishing the interview in English. Putin’s programmatic speech This is one of Putin’s most crucial speeches. The ...
By Doğu Perinçek * The developments in the US are not a mere power struggle. The US is at a historical crossroads. We have long insisted that “the electoral process in the US will end at the police station” and that a popular movement is on the horizon. We could foresee this because we are analyzing historical processes. We look ...