German experts are showing presence on Libyan soil. Libya is a country with tense domestic politics. The West and East of Libya are in a state of “Cold War” and different countries are interested in the outcome of this conflict. Some of them use Libya as a proxy player in the upcoming geopolitical confrontations. Other countries want to help Libya ...
British politician George Galloway comments on his impressions from the BRICS summit. By Yunus Soner, Kazan / Russia The BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, keeps on fueling debates globally on the future of the international system. Immediately after its conclusion, we spoke on the summit’s results with George Galloway. The interview was made in Kazan at the Expo Center, where ...
The US is heading to the elections on November 5. We conducted a comprehensive interview with Harley Schlanger, Vice President of the Schiller Institute in the US. In the first part of the interview Schlanger addresses the issues of polarized society, “the party of war”, the differences of the two parties in terms of economic policy, the power of monopolies ...
Lula’s ‘veto’ against Venezuela’s entry to BRICS is a continuation of his general policy. I had not wanted to express an opinion on the decision of Brazil and Lula to veto Venezuela’s entry into BRICS. But I was struck by the statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry that exonerates the president of Brazil, the foreign minister and even the presidential ...
The US is grasping the southern part of the island. The United States is deepening its relations to the Greek Cypriot Administration that claims to represent the entire island and governs the southern part. First, Washington lifted an old weapons embargo against it, followed by a defense cooperation agreement. As the latest step, President Joe Biden received in Washington Nikos ...
Posted by by United World International 10 Min Read October 30, 2024 By Michael Roberts * Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Simon Johnson is a ...
On the outcomes of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia Yunus Soner, Kazan, Russia The BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia has concluded. On its final day, after the presentation of the Kazan Declaration, we spoke to Pepe Escobar, Brazilian geopolitics expert specialized on Eurasian Affairs. Here’s how Escobar summarized the outcomes of the summit. Okay, your basic takeaway of this ...
Some even consider Germany “the sick man of Europe”. The report published by one of Germany’s prominent economic research institutes, Ifo (Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e. V.), on September 5, 2024, is titled “Deutsche Wirtschaft steckt in der Krise fest” (The German economy is stuck in crisis). The report identifies the crisis as primarily a structural one, ...
Dangerous unpredictability continues to pave the road to all-out war! By Adem Kılıç, political scientist Israel’s attacks on critical Iranian military installations over the weekend have been described as an unprecedented “direct attack” between the two countries, and the “cycle of retaliation” between the two regional rivals has reached an unprecedented point. If this cycle continues, the confrontation will undoubtedly ...
By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt A difficult time, no doubt, perhaps these are the “hardest days” in the history of the region during the past two decades. In the midst of this dangerous atmosphere, Israel launched its expected response against Iran, and the Israeli attack was limited and weak, and sparked great controversy amid leaked information about a secret ...
Interview to Russian TV Channel RT. Political Scientist and UWI author Onur Sinan Guzaltan answered questions about Türkiye’s BRICS membership process and the terrorist attack in Ankara. I love to first hear your thoughts on what you feel this sort of partnership status with BRICS is going to bring to Türkiye in the future? I want to begin with Lenin’s ...
The example of authoritarian, police-based neoliberalism is already spreading to other countries in the continent. By Fernando Esteche, Buenos Aires / Argentina When we define the four main vectors by which the imperialist mode of production is reproduced, we indicate that they are: financialization, militarism, chaotization and narcotization. To a different extent and according to the contexts, some of these ...