By Andrew Korybko The Polish-German Rivalry Germany and Poland have been competing for influence in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) since before the start of Russia’s special operation in February 2022, but that campaign resulted in unprecedentedly intensifying their rivalry in this geostrategic space. Germany envisages indirectly controlling CEE via the EU institutions that it leads while Poland wants to assemble an ...
By Dr Fernando Esteche Between 22nd and 24th of August, the summit of BRICS presidents will meet in South Africa. The BRICS represent almost half of the global population and in the last year contributed 50% to the growth of the world’s gross product. Said summit will suffer from the absence of Russian President Vladimir Putin who will be represented ...
By Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain The U.S. State Department encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept. The meeting, between the Pakistani ambassador to the United States and two State Department ...
By Oscar Rotundo* The neoliberal project developed by Lenin Moreno and Guillermo Lasso has led Ecuador to a decomposition, which in turn permitted narco-paramilitarism to break into the political life of the nation in a scandalous manner. The assassination of political leaders, journalists and the prison massacres in Ecuador in 2023 are a concrete examples of how the lack of presence ...
By Tevfik Kadan The US House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which involves a decision to establish new bases on the Aegean islands. The bill, which encompasses the budget for the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) for the fiscal year 2024 and sets defense spending policies, was passed in the House of Representatives last month. The $886 billion bill includes a ...
By Fikret Akfırat On August 7th, Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan delivered an opening speech at the 14th Ambassadors Conference, outlining the government’s foreign policy approach and the course it intends to follow. Fidan bases the government’s foreign policy understanding on the following principles: “We will undauntedly work to bolster Türkiye’s position as an efficient, influential, fully independent actor that ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek gave an interview to the Azerbaijani site Day.Az about Yerevan’s appeal to the UN Security Council with a complaint against Azerbaijan. We present the interview, published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. The whole world recognizes that Karabakh is the territory of Azerbaijan. Even Armenia itself does not recognize the so-called “independence” of ...
On August 7, an explosion occurred in the port of Kocaeli in Türkiye at grain silos, right after the unloading of grain from a cargo arriving from the Russian port of Novorossiysk. Dr Eray Güçlüer says its too early to speak of sabotage, but observes some suspicious moments in the explosion. At the same time, international diplomacy around the ...
My speech at the presentation of the Chinese edition of my book “China in the 21st century. The Awakening of a Giant”, held in Beijing on July 31, 2023: Interestingly, my first contact to China, when I was still a child, was through books. I never knew why, I never asked my father how he got children’s books about China ...
BRICS is heading towards its presidential summit on August 22nd in South Africa. Several countries are applying for membership in the organization that is becoming the center of an alternative global system. One of these is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ahead of the summit, the Iranian Foreign Ministry held a conference on Iran and the BRICS. On August 8, the ...
By Prof. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme * The hypothesis has been defended here that the war in Ukraine gets a multidimensional nature when the military battlefield has been extrapolated to two serious crises of global impact –energy and food– and, above all, to one in the Global South that seeks to break free from the US dollar through the very fashionable de-dollarization. ...
Despite the summer heat, the agenda in Türkiye remains intense. The last week was marked by the decisions of the Supreme Military Council meeting. Pursuit for foreign investment from the West midst the escalating economic problems, was another important issue of the week. The decision by the Disney television platform to refrain from airing a series depicting the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk due to pressure ...