The first thing which was denied to Palestinians was water and food. It was the onslaught of the genocide against the People of Palestine.  Netanyahu ordered a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip starting on October 9, 2023, preventing and … The post Gaza’s Polio Vaccine Project: Bill Gates comes to the Rescue of Palestinian Children. Can you Trust Him? appeared first on Global Research.

The number 500,000, confirmed by the police, makes it the largest demonstration in Israel's history. The post 500,000 protesters gather in Tel Aviv demanding hostage deal, riots ensue appeared first on World Israel News.

The number 500,000, confirmed by the police, makes it the largest demonstration in Israel's history. The post 500,000 protesters gather in Tel Aviv demanding hostage deal, riots ensue appeared first on World Israel News.

'This suggests Israel is not going to withdraw entirely from the Gaza strip any time soon.' The post Israel is paving the Philadelphi corridor to indicate it won’t withdraw appeared first on World Israel News.

'This suggests Israel is not going to withdraw entirely from the Gaza strip any time soon.' The post Israel is paving the Philadelphi corridor to indicate it won’t withdraw appeared first on World Israel News.

At this critical moment in American history, and in world history, a moment at which the Fukuyama fuzzy fantasy of an end of history and of a magic kingdom on Earth animated by endless growth and consumption has come crashing … The post Creating a Revolution in the Spiritual Desert Known as America appeared first on Global Research.

For the first time in 12 years, Erdogan hosted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to repair ties between the two countries.  The post Turkish president Erdogan calls for alliance of Islamic countries in face of Israel’s ‘expansionism’ appeared first on World Israel News.

For the first time in 12 years, Erdogan hosted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to repair ties between the two countries.  The post Turkish president Erdogan calls for alliance of Islamic countries in face of Israel’s ‘expansionism’ appeared first on World Israel News.

Canary Mission has documented numerous outrageous cases of antisemitism at the University of Toronto, along with the complicity of its faculty. The post WATCH: Shocking antisemitism at the University of Toronto appeared first on World Israel News.

Canary Mission has documented numerous outrageous cases of antisemitism at the University of Toronto, along with the complicity of its faculty. The post WATCH: Shocking antisemitism at the University of Toronto appeared first on World Israel News.

It was far from the first time that Owens, who has millions of online followers, has gone after Jews and Jewish groups. The post Candace Owens criticizes the Lubavitcher Rebbe for ‘hatred of non-Jews” appeared first on World Israel News.

It was far from the first time that Owens, who has millions of online followers, has gone after Jews and Jewish groups. The post Candace Owens criticizes the Lubavitcher Rebbe for ‘hatred of non-Jews” appeared first on World Israel News.

It tricks us, lies to us, manipulates us, gaslights us, propagandizes at us, and when that fails, it outlaws us, censors us and it imprisons us. The post An Iron Curtain is descending on us appeared first on World Israel News.

It tricks us, lies to us, manipulates us, gaslights us, propagandizes at us, and when that fails, it outlaws us, censors us and it imprisons us. The post An Iron Curtain is descending on us appeared first on World Israel News.

Footage shows Eviatar David being beaten in the back of a truck en route to Gaza, where he is later seen in Hamas captivity. The post WATCH: Newly released footage from Oct. 7 shows Israeli hostage being kidnapped appeared first on World Israel News.

Footage shows Eviatar David being beaten in the back of a truck en route to Gaza, where he is later seen in Hamas captivity. The post WATCH: Newly released footage from Oct. 7 shows Israeli hostage being kidnapped appeared first on World Israel News.

Walz's comments come as large anti-Israel protests plague Michigan. The post ‘Speaking out for all the right reasons’: Walz echoes Kamala in praise of anti-Israel protesters appeared first on World Israel News.

Walz's comments come as large anti-Israel protests plague Michigan. The post ‘Speaking out for all the right reasons’: Walz echoes Kamala in praise of anti-Israel protesters appeared first on World Israel News.

Initial reports say that Eygi is a member of the pro-terrorist organization International Solidarity Movement. The post IDF investigates death of American pro-Hamas activist during Nablus riots appeared first on World Israel News.

Initial reports say that Eygi is a member of the pro-terrorist organization International Solidarity Movement. The post IDF investigates death of American pro-Hamas activist during Nablus riots appeared first on World Israel News.

Patrick Beverly, who formerly played in the NBA with a litany of superstars, called Israel one of the best places he's ever played basketball. The post WATCH: Former NBA star calls playing in Israel ‘paradise’ appeared first on World Israel News.

Patrick Beverly, who formerly played in the NBA with a litany of superstars, called Israel one of the best places he's ever played basketball. The post WATCH: Former NBA star calls playing in Israel ‘paradise’ appeared first on World Israel News.

UWM is not the only institution which has refused to take the coalition’s threats seriously. The post University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says pro-Hamas groups’ threats are protected by first amendment appeared first on World Israel News.

UWM is not the only institution which has refused to take the coalition’s threats seriously. The post University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says pro-Hamas groups’ threats are protected by first amendment appeared first on World Israel News.

'New York is perfect to target Jews because it has the largest Jewish population in America.' The post Terrorist planned massive Oct 7th terror attack against NY Jews appeared first on World Israel News.

'New York is perfect to target Jews because it has the largest Jewish population in America.' The post Terrorist planned massive Oct 7th terror attack against NY Jews appeared first on World Israel News.

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Florida woman is facing charges of premeditated murder after allegedly shooting her husband to death following a heated argument on Labor Day weekend. The 45-year-old woman, Denise Nicole Malcolm, reportedly had a long-standing dispute with her husband over his alleged infidelity. The argument escalated after a shopping trip for a Labor Day barbecue when her husband, 52-year-old Rohan Malcolm, announced he was leaving to spend time with friends, a claim ... Read more

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado is currently conducting an investigation following the death of a 19-year-old cadet in her dorm room. The cadet, Avery Koonce, a native of Taylor, Texas, was discovered unconscious in her dormitory on Wednesday evening. Despite the immediate life-saving efforts of first responders, Koonce did not survive. Koonce, a Cadet 4th Class, was on track to graduate in 2028. She was also a valued ... Read more

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. Incisive article, with foresight, first published on December 31, 2022 *** Excess mortality is reported from Norway … The post The Plan: WHO’s Ten Years of Infectious Diseases (2020 to 2030), Leading to World Tyranny appeared first on Global Research.

Big powers have often tried to use smaller countries to fight their wars against other countries, particularly against other big powers. The widespread prevalence of such proxy wars is well-recognized. The USA has been involved in several proxy wars. The … The post Proxy War in Reverse—Client and Proxy States Can Also Try to Use Big Powers to Serve Their Interests appeared first on Global Research.

There is a problem in Gaza. It is called Western-supported GENOCIDE. Western-supported Zionists are deliberately causing starvation, and disease and mass death by all methods. Zionists destroy hospitals and health care. Zionists destroy water treatment facilities. Zionists bomb … The post “There is a Problem in Gaza. It is called Western-supported GENOCIDE”. Fabricated Illusions of Humanitarianism.The Proposed Polio Vaccine appeared first on Global Research.

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post Yes it Was a “False Flag”, “Murder their Own Soldiers”. Israelis Widely Used “Hannibal Directive” on Oct. 7: Israeli Report appeared first on Global Research.

During the 1990s, the government of Slobodan Milošević led Serbia into a third Balkan war. His allies in Bosnia were responsible for a litany of war crimes, including the massacre at Srebrenica. The war left Serbia itself isolated and impoverished, and a protest movement drove Milošević from power in 2000. Two decades later, Serbia has

First published by Global Research on October 23, 2023, with foresight 2 weeks after the October 7, 2023 Operation *** False flag operations: “The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it is necessary to create within … The post Dangers and Lessons from the Perennial Israeli-Palestinian War: The Big Picture of Propaganda and False Flag Operations appeared first on Global Research.

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea” — (W. E. … The post The War on Gaza: Why the Sustainability of the Western-Zionist Colony Is Nigh on Impossible. Amir Nour appeared first on Global Research.

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). *** . . Introduction  In September 2009, the U.S Justice Department attorneys … The post Pfizer Has a Criminal Record. Did the Media or Your Government Inform You? Had You Known Would You Have Accepted to Receive the Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine? appeared first on Global Research.

The “Justified Vengeance” doctrine propounds that Palestine is “the Aggressor” and that “Israel has the right to defend itself” which since October 7, 2023 consists in the conduct of a carefully planned genocide against the People of Palestine. The post False Flag Operation, The Lie becomes the Truth: “Israel is the Victim of Palestinian Aggression”. According to the ICC, “There Never Was A Genocide”. appeared first on Global Research.

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post 9/11 Inquiry Denied and 9/11 Questions Ignored. Conversations with Matt Campbell and Ray McGinnis appeared first on Global Research.

It’s so good to have the old gang back again that it seems petty to carp about any aspect of this long-awaited Beetlejuice Beetlejuice reunion. Seventy-three-year-old Michael Keaton is still magnificent as the rampant undead “freelance bioexorcist,” and if he seems a shade slower and less electrically frenetic than in the delightful first Beetlejuice of

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post Was 9/11 a False Flag? America’s “Just War” Against Muslim Countries: “Self Defense” Against “The Civilizational War of Islam Against the West” appeared first on Global Research.

Senior US official says the Gaza terror group is threatening to execute additional Israeli captives, adding that fewer living hostages will be released in deal after Hamas executed 6. The post Hamas threatening to murder more hostages, warns top Biden official appeared first on World Israel News.

Senior US official says the Gaza terror group is threatening to execute additional Israeli captives, adding that fewer living hostages will be released in deal after Hamas executed 6. The post Hamas threatening to murder more hostages, warns top Biden official appeared first on World Israel News.

It’s tempting to write off Bernie Sanders’s speeches and interviews as he campaigns for Kamala Harris this year as a “playing the hits” tour: The top 1 percent own lots of wealth. We have to take on Big Pharma. We need to finally guarantee everyone the right to health insurance. Donald Trump is an existential

9/11 marks the onslaught of the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a “war without borders”, a global war of conquest. A far-reaching overhaul of US military doctrine was launched in the wake of 9/11. The post Video: 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism appeared first on Global Research.

When Quentin Tarantino chose the small eastern German town of Sebnitz for a scene in his Inglourious Basterds, he was likely drawn to its beautiful scenery, not to actual Nazis. Yet, along the road to Sebnitz across Saxony, a several-meter-high flagpole stands tall in a backyard, displaying the black, white, and red flag of the

HARFORD COUNTY, MD – A fatal shooting occurred at Joppatowne High School in Maryland on Friday, when a 16-year-old student, known to law enforcement, shot a classmate in a first-floor boy’s bathroom. The incident occurred during the shooter’s first day at the school, following an altercation with the victim, 15-year-old Warren Curtis Grant. The shooting took place around 12:35 p.m., as reported by Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler. The school’s security officer and principal did ... Read more

A Las Vegas woman was recently arrested after surveillance footage showed her stealing a casket containing a body from a local funeral home. The woman, identified as 47-year-old Patricia Sierra, claimed she had no memory of the incident, attributing her actions to a blackout from heavy drinking. Sierra is currently facing charges of burglary, grand larceny, and disturbing human remains. The incident took place on August 27 and was recorded by the funeral home’s security ... Read more

Il Forward Observations Group, compagnia militare privata con sede negli Stati Uniti, pubblica una foto di suoi professionisti della guerra nella regione russa del Kursk, presenza confermata da un video che mostra la distruzione, ad opera delle forze armate … The post A Faccia Nascosta della Guerra appeared first on Global Research.

Em meio ao tenso cenário político dos EUA, os democratas estão fazendo tudo o que podem para aumentar suas chances de reeleição. Com o povo americano a considerar a administração desastrosa de Joe Biden como a principal razão do atual … The post Democratas desesperados para sabotar a transição geopolítica multipolar. appeared first on Global Research.

China ranks first among the foreign countries whose tourists visited Russia in 2023

El Salvador has proposed leveraging cryptocurrency for trade with the BRICS alliance as a strategic alternative to the US dollar

Russia has long been a reliable partner for India, with their relationship being a key pillar of India’s foreign policy

A newlywed couple from Michigan found themselves in police custody instead of a honeymoon suite after being charged with the death of their groomsman on their wedding day. The couple, 22-year-old James Douglas Shirah and 21-year-old Savanah Nicole Collier, were celebrating their nuptials at a Flint pizzeria on August 30 when the incident occurred. Their groomsman, 29-year-old Terry Lewis Taylor, was later discovered with severe injuries resulting from a vehicular collision, as reported by law ... Read more

Today Israeli forces killed Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-US citizen, in the West Bank, shooting her in the head as she protested one of the country’s growing and accelerating illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory. The US and Israeli governments are claiming that it is unclear who killed her, but as multiple US outlets report,

Joining BRICS is all the rage nowadays. Dozens of countries have shown interest to join what’s almost certainly the world’s only true international organization. The UN has long been an instrument of “legitimizing” the US-led political West’s perpetual aggression against … The post Neo-Ottoman NATO Member Turkey in BRICS? Is It Really a Good Idea? appeared first on Global Research.

The current discussion about the future of the German auto industry and the possible closure of factories at the VW Group does not only affect the German economy and must be seen in the context of global economic developments.

A man in South Brunswick is facing charges after allegedly setting his girlfriend’s parents’ home ablaze following a dispute. Leonard Jones, 50, is accused of starting the fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing the occupants to flee as the flames rapidly consumed the property. The incident occurred on Old Beekman Road, where Jones had been arguing with his girlfriend. According to the South Brunswick Police Department, officers were initially called to the ... Read more

In the late 1970s, Michael Bettaney, a fascist sympathizer who made the familiar British journey from Oxford to MI5, was pulled over. Drunk and out of sorts, he is reported to have told officers: “You can’t arrest me, I’m a spy.” Drunkenness and antisemitism made Bettaney especially qualified for the intelligence service. He rose within

Gaza’s Polio Vaccine Project: Bill Gates Comes to the Rescue of Palestinian Children. Can You Trust Him? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 06, 2024 WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus confirms that his mentor Bill Gates generously offered … The post Selected Articles: Gaza’s Polio Vaccine Project: Bill Gates Comes to the Rescue of Palestinian Children. Can You Trust Him? appeared first on Global Research.

The African Union Chairperson is an important position within the African Union. The Chairperson serves as the head of the (AU) African Union elected by the assembly of heads of states and government. As the Africa Union stands at the … The post Candidates From Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar and Mauritius Contesting for African Union Chairperson’s Position appeared first on Global Research.

Masoud Pezeshkian, who had vowed to form a “national consensus” (vefagh melli) government, could not deliver. Even though a few ministers are from the prior government, the key positions in his administration are given to those who had served … The post Reformists Returned to Power in the New Government in Iran appeared first on Global Research.

Argentine President Javier Milei has said that he will buy new submarines for the country, which has been left without operational capacity since the ARA San Juan tragedy in 2017 and will probably opt for French or German submarines. Despite … The post President Javier Milei Seeks to Recover Argentina’s Submarine Fleet But Will Not Challenge UK appeared first on Global Research.

Republicans called Obama a communist, when all his worst actions as president were continuations and expansions of Bush’s policies. Democrats called Trump a Nazi when his worst acts were continuations and expansions of Obama’s policies. Now we’re back to calling … The post Calling Harris a Communist Is an Insult to Communism appeared first on Global Research.

Below is an excerpt from CTV News: A spokesperson for Alberta Health says that as of Aug. 31, all old-strain COVID-19 vaccines are no longer available, but neither is the new formula. “To assist with the implementation of the newest … The post Alberta, Ontario and Sask Are Destroying All COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines appeared first on Global Research.

Since its entry into NATO in 1982, Spain has been a steadfast member of the alliance, actively contributing to joint military operations, strategic deterrence, and the broader objectives of collective defense. Yet, Spain’s unwavering commitment to NATO—often without critically assessing … The post Spain’s Loyalty to NATO: A Double-Edged Sword for National Security and Its Relationship with Russia appeared first on Global Research.

Turkey could easily play the role of a US/NATO's "Trojan horse" that could undermine BRICS at every step of the way, as its policies, both domestic and foreign, effectively boil down to an extremely volatile mix of Neo-Ottomanism, political Islam and pan-Turkism.

Philippines breaks promise to China on not supplying contested islands.

The German newspaper Bild noted that no mention was made in the document of the Philadelphi corridor, the apparent cause of the current impasse in the deal. The post Hamas document reveals its negotiation sabotage and psychological warfare tactics appeared first on World Israel News.

The German newspaper Bild noted that no mention was made in the document of the Philadelphi corridor, the apparent cause of the current impasse in the deal. The post Hamas document reveals its negotiation sabotage and psychological warfare tactics appeared first on World Israel News.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen,'The report that the American families are demanding a separate US-Hamas is not correct.' The post Father of US-Israeli hostage denies that Biden is making separate deal with Hamas to free American captives appeared first on World Israel News.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen,'The report that the American families are demanding a separate US-Hamas is not correct.' The post Father of US-Israeli hostage denies that Biden is making separate deal with Hamas to free American captives appeared first on World Israel News.

One day before the 9/11 attacks, the dad of the sitting President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush was meeting none other than Shafiq bin Laden, the brother of alleged terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. The post The Bin Ladens and the Bushes: On 9/11 George Herbert Walker Bush Meets Osama’s Brother Shafiq bin Laden appeared first on Global Research.

Amid the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Kamala Harris has pledged to “stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies.” With the upcoming US presidential elections, all eyes are on the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and on the Republican one Donald … The post The Democrats Plan for Ukraine Is: They Don’t Have a Plan appeared first on Global Research.

Kirby said the US is not going to give up trying to secure a hostage-for-prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement. The post US says Hamas murdering 6 captives makes hostage deal more difficult appeared first on World Israel News.

Kirby said the US is not going to give up trying to secure a hostage-for-prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement. The post US says Hamas murdering 6 captives makes hostage deal more difficult appeared first on World Israel News.

This week, in Spring Hill, Tennessee, just south of Nashville, roughly one thousand workers at Ultium Cells LLC, an electric vehicle (EV) plant jointly run by General Motors and LG Energy Solution of Korea, joined the United Auto Workers (UAW) after a majority of the venture’s employees signed union-authorization cards. The advance is a product

US deliberately harms Europe to prevent EU from becoming a relevant bloc in the multipolar world.

The Republican Party is increasingly guided by white nationalist politics, which are in turn heavily influenced by long-standing conspiracy tropes involving hidden and powerful Jewish networks. Unfortunately, most of the public discourse about antisemitism has little to do with this disturbing trend. Instead, it’s almost entirely directed at criminalizing and suppressing protests against Israel’s genocide

As results poured in from the first round of France’s elections on June 30, veteran Gaullist politician Michel Barnier sounded the alarm. His Les Républicains seemed faced with a debacle, with under 7 percent of the vote. Ahead of the election, the party had suffered a damaging split, as a noisy minority made an alliance

With the new British Government now firmly occupying the corridors of Whitehall, the population is now waking up to the reality of their electoral decision in July 2024. That reality is not socialism in ‘name only’ as many British political commentators have said, but rather a highly dogmatic, well-organized socialist Government driven by a firmly held Leftist ideology. Fundamentally, there has been a consistent failure within British political discourse to fully reckon with the centrist-presenting but ultimately hard-left ideology of ‘New Labour.’  During the 2017 and 2019 elections, British conservatives could easily recognize Jeremy Corbyn as a politician honest about his far-left commitments. In contrast, Sir Starmer, like Sir Tony Blair, was able to camouflage his dogmatism by presenting himself, through his appearance and diction, as a resemblance of a senior consultant at McKinsey. Mirroring the CV of Blair, Starmer’s CV boasts time at the Bar and Oxford University; traditional career avenues for those on the Conservative benches of the House of Commons.  Despite appearances, none of the above-mentioned characteristics are relevant to the ideological heart of Tony Blair, or the new Labour Party prodigy, Sir Kier Starmer. To the Corbynists of the Labour Party, Starmer is viewed as a ‘Tory’, but this has much more to do with his appearance and cultural allegiances than the socialist attitudes of Sir Kier.  The very same mistake made in 1997 with the election of Tony Blair has been made again in 2024. Swing voters in the 90s saw Blair, in his Canary Wharf style suit and media-savvy communication style, as a man very much unlike his Labour predecessors Neil Kinnock and Michael Foot. Voters were ultimately duped into not reading between the lines. Reflecting on his political awakening in an interview on Radio 4, Sir Blair noted the following:  “Here’s this guy Trotsky who was so inspired by all of this that he went out to create a Russian revolution and changed the world. I think it’s a very odd thing – just literally it was like a light going on. And even though, you know, over time I left that side of politics behind, the notion of having a cause and a purpose and one bigger than yourself or your own ambition – and I think probably allied at the same time to coming to religious faith – that changed my life in that period.” Despite theoretically leaving Trotsky behind, the afterglow of that ideological influence was still apparent while in office; 11 years of Blair’s leadership show him to still be a socialist revolutionary, just of a different sort. As a reward, the British people saw their education system revolutionized – removing conservative attitudes and producing excessive university graduates molded in the image of Blairism – reminiscent of Barack Obama’s ‘college for all’ model across the Atlantic. The House of Lords was decimated, the national debt spiraled from heavy public spending, and Britain’s place in the European Union was firmly cemented. Only thanks to his political accompaniment, Gordon Brown, was Britain saved from Blair’s desire for the country to ditch the British pound for the Euro as its currency. Blair’s commitment to rejecting Margaret Thatcher’s notion of ‘’there is no such thing as society’’ was exactly the motivation he needed to destroy Britain’s global reputation. Military intervention, successful in  Kosovo and Sierra Leone, though tragically much less so in Iraq, was partly caused by Blair’s view that there are causes and purposes ‘’bigger than yourself’’ and that someone, like Trotsky, and himself, could ‘save the world’.  Blair’s greatest success, however, was his ability to entirely shift the frame of acceptable political discourse in Britain. The New Labour approach to the environment, immigration, the National Health Service, and increased cradle-to-grave government reliance all became accepted ideas within British politics; this being demonstrated by Conservative PM David Cameron continuing these policies. After Blair, it became unimaginable to champion ideas such as ending the 2030 Zero emissions target, privatizing healthcare, reducing university numbers, re-invigorating the importance of the family, drastic reductions in taxation, relaxations on planning laws, ending the acceleration of devolution, and taking a tough approach to the drug epidemic. British political observers have continued to demonstrate their misunderstanding of Starmer by portraying him as a centrist simply because he fits the now inescapable Blairite mold. Matt Andersen’s latest article published in Providence Magazine demonstrates this misunderstanding of the left is and the failure within Britain to properly imagine an alternative mode of politics. In his article, Andersen states that Starmer’s five missions to kickstart the United Kingdom ‘’undoubtedly address’’ Britain’s key socio-economic problems. The five missions include making Britain a clean energy superpower by accelerating the Net Zero target, building the NHS, and breaking down barriers to opportunity.  The third of these seems particularly uncontroversial. Unfortunately, as enacted by New Labour, this means class-based conflict. Starmer’s pledge to break down barriers is simply a continuation of Blair’s desire for social re-structuring and is heavily focused on areas such as education. For example, Starmer has promised to remove charitable status on private schools. This envious move is motivated by Starmer’s dogmatic socialist ideology, rather than rationalist thought or the Rooseveltian ‘Do what’s right’ mindset that voters wrongly think Starmer embodies. Instead, this policy is an attack on the middle class, whereby many will now have to rely on the public purse for their children’s education as private schools increase tuition to fund taxes they will now have to pay. Likewise, Starmer is a zealot for the national religion of the National Health Service. His vague mission to build the NHS essentially means accepting the existing system but with further investment. During the election, Sir Kier gave away his deeply dogmatic mindset when he said he would not use private healthcare even if his children were ill. Logically, any millionaire like Starmer would naturally wish to use private healthcare if needed. It would even be fiscally responsible by not burdening the NHS so that public resources could be used for those who dearly need them. Starmer, however, was for once being honest; he does not believe in private healthcare because the idea of a big state structure and total equality is essential to his ideology. Furthermore, Andersen’s acceptance that making Britain a green superpower would ‘’undoubtedly address Britain’s current needs’’ is the most obvious indication of Britain’s failure to understand what the left is. In addition to describing himself as a ‘’progressive’ Starmer most vehemently described himself as a ‘red-green’. While it would be rash to naively ignore climate concerns, one could suggest that there are much more vital matters that should be the center of a government’s concerns. For Starmer however, there is nothing more important. This explains Starmer’s goal to spend £500 billion to reach his Net Zero goals, with pledges to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars announced. Starmer, who served gleefully in the shadow cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn, has a deep-rooted history within socialist circles. As an adult, he wrote for Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Lawyer whereby he stated that ‘’Karl Marx was, of course, right.’’ Since arriving in office, Starmer has already moved the country to the Left. The Foreign Office is now referring to the Golan Heights, Gaza and the West Bank as ‘’occupied Palestinian territory’, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has pledged to ‘re-set’ EU-UK ties with further integration, and the justice system has been liberalized, with prisoners set to be released early.   If this start to Government is not socialist, then what is? The real question, however, is if Starmer has done this in one month, what is to come in the next five years? 

A man from California is currently in custody after he was accused of indiscriminately shooting and killing over 80 animals in a vineyard. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office began receiving multiple reports of gunfire shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday near the 16000 block of Avery Lane. Deputies quickly arrived at the scene and heard gunshots, but due to the darkness and dense vegetation, they were unable to immediately locate the shooter. A shelter-in-place order ... Read more

Law enforcement officials in northern Georgia have arrested the father of a teenager implicated in a fatal shooting at Apalachee High School. Colin Gray, 54, is facing multiple charges, including four counts of manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of child cruelty. These charges were filed a day after his 14-year-old son, Colt Gray, was charged with murder. The charges against Colin Gray were brought after it was revealed that he had ... Read more

The activities being underway to bolster the trade and investment partnership between Ethiopia and China have been showing tangible results, Investment Commission Commissioner, Hanna Arayaselassie remarked

BRICS, the bloc of emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is gaining momentum. At the beginning of this year, BRICS expanded, and now, no fewer than 40 countries have expressed interest in joining

As the next chair of the Southeast Asian grouping, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will likely share the concerns of his new BRICS partners

Ernest Lamar Love, a 41-year-old barber from California, is facing charges of murder, torture, and child abuse following the death of a six-year-old boy he was babysitting. The child, Chance Crawford, was left in Love’s care by his mother, who worked an overnight shift as a nurse’s assistant at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The incident took place in Placentia, approximately 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles. According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the boy’s ... Read more

Colt Gray, a 14-year-old Georgia teen, is under investigation for a fatal shooting at Apalachee High School that left four people dead. Gray had previously been on the FBI’s watchlist due to his connection with online threats of school violence in 2023. The FBI’s Atlanta field office disclosed that they had received anonymous tips about threats to an unidentified school, which included images of firearms. Gray, who was 13 at the time, was identified as ... Read more

The role of the pharmaceutical industry has become a matter of sharp public controversy after scandals like the role of Purdue Pharma in fueling the US opioid epidemic. From the HIV/AIDS crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical corporations have been accused of profiteering at the expense of countless lives. But the pandemic also exposed our

Reports indicate that many of the neutralized NATO personnel were Swedes, sent to train Ukrainian personnel to use the Saab 340 AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning & Control) aircraft, two of which were promised by Stockholm and are supposed to be delivered in the near future. Interestingly, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom resigned in the immediate aftermath of the strike and announced that he's retiring from politics.

During the golden age of the Village Voice, New York’s genre-defining alt-weekly, journalists Jack Newfield and Tom Robbins compiled annual lists of the city’s worst landlords to run in the paper. The feature’s popularity led Newfield to add a spin-off: New York’s worst judges, featuring mug shots shaming these crooked perverters of justice. The worst

European states are paranoid about “Russian invasion”, launching new defense policies to increase military capabilities.

A declining overstretched superpower is scary enough - but an overburdened superpower with no plan is nightmarish.

The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status may be the most important Palestine solidarity victory in Canadian history. The grassroots win is a boost to the global Stop the JNF campaign and efforts to disrupt Canadian charity assistance to Israel. On August 10, the federal government officially revoked the charitable status

The first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be on September 10 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, an institution designed to “disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.” Jeffrey Rosen, the center’s president and CEO, called

Argentina will likely purchase German or French submarines.

Global geopolitics is currently marked by extraordinary tensions and armed conflicts raising the threat of world war — above all, in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan. Since the early 2010s, the disposition of leading state powers has become steadily more reminiscent of the years prior to the great imperialist conflagration of 1914. Such a

Russia’s defence production continues booming despite sanctions.

Tucker Carlson recently had Darryl Cooper on his podcast to discuss history. The most prominent talking point of Cooper, a historian of sorts, was the ostensibly avoidable nature of the Second World War. It’s not a new thesis; there has always been an American polemic that the United States’ involvement in WWII was unnecessary and unwinnable. Charles Lindbergh and the 1930s America First movement did not think the United States’ involvement was inevitable. A long and often-times inconsistent tradition of Anglophobia convinced many Americans—Lindbergh being the most notable—that Great Britain was tricking the United States into a war it had no stake in. What makes Cooper interesting, and worrisome, is the way he sees Winston Churchill as a primary aggressor in the Second World War instead of the nakedly genocidal, tyrannical, and racist Führer of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Churchill’s warmongering—if one insists on calling it that—was in the defense of the conservative and even nationalist European system against Nazi imperialism.  The British Empire in 1939 had by then spent multiple generations steadily devolving itself into what would become the Commonwealth of Nations. Amid this already occurring devolution, European states fought the Great War. Germany’s treatment in the aftermath of its military defeat was admittedly shameful, and Churchill freely admitted as much. Undoubtedly Churchill was a man who believed war was a political necessity. He was called a warlord in his own time, perhaps even with good reason, but his warmongering was consistently against totalitarians who acted to destroy the broad European settlement of power. In the 1920s he wanted Great Britain to go to war against the Soviet Union, which he believed represented the greatest threat to the West. The USSR’s agents operated in major European capitals and emboldened Communists and the rising fascist movements in order to destabilize what were then still conservative, non-revolutionary governments.  One of the governments Churchill worried about, and wanted to strengthen, was that of Weimar Germany. During WWI, Churchill believed the British government was being negligent in its treatment of German civilians, and he rebuked the British cabinet for maintaining its blockade of Germany after the military defeat of the German Empire became inevitable. He wrote to Prime Minister David Lloyd-George on the matter in 1918. “All the soldiers are agreed that the most important military action required from the allies is to feed Germany, not only with food but with raw materials, and to raise the blockade. They think that Germany is on the verge of a complete collapse.” Churchill worried that the material conditions of the German civilian population were not being taken seriously enough and that the impending economic disaster might lead to another continent-wide war. Churchill “was anxious that a wise and humane policy should be adopted toward the Germans in the zone of our occupied armies.” He was a leading voice asking Britons to have a “more humane feelings about the Germans.” Churchill’s dispositional conservatism and devotion to monarchy allowed him to conceive of Germany as a proud country deserving of a place of honor in the family of European nations. In 1946 he retrospectively explained his vision for Europe post-WWI: “If the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had allowed a Hohenzollern, a Wittelsbach and a Habsburg to return to their thrones, there would have been no Hitler. A democratic basis of society might have been preserved by a crowned Weimar in contact with the victorious Allies.” Churchill’s vision for Europe was conservative, democratic or even populist, and monarchical. The chief enemies of that conservative order were the Soviet Union and the burgeoning fascist movement in Italy.  Germany remained unsettled throughout the 1920s. The tumultuous nature of Weimar politics bred a distinct form of resentment that, interestingly enough, largely exempted Great Britain. France remained the chief object of nationalist ire in Germany. Territorial reconstitution was not a chief desire for German right-wing movements, many of which simply hoped for a revived German monarchy and military. The fever dreams of Adolf Hitler, however, were centered on empire. In his 1925 Mein Kampf, Hitler foresaw an expanding German empire that would eventually include all “Aryan” peoples. These Aryans needed an imperial geography—living space, or “lebenspraum”—to make their envisioned empire livable. Hitler wanted to create an empire and, in doing so, overthrow the existing order in Europe. Hitler, notes philosopher of nationalism Yoram Hazony, “was frank in disseminating the view that Germany ‘must someday become lord of the earth.’” Germany was the warmongering expansionist power of the 1930s. Nazi Germany, writes Hazony, “was, in fact, an imperial state in every sense, seeking to put an end to the principle of national self-determination of peoples once and for all.” Churchill, nearly alone in the British Parliament, understood the threat Nazism posed. Imperialist, statist, and progressive in the sense of seeking to bring about radical world-altering change, they represented an existential menace to the conservative democratic (and nationalist) order. Churchill’s warnings went unheeded, as did his pleas for Great Britain to take more seriously its own treaty obligations to the nationalist government in Poland. Churchill also rightly diagnosed the essential unity between the war aims of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and he believed—not without cause—that the former’s existence had helped create the latter.  When the Second World War began in September 1939, Churchill was not yet Prime Minister and wouldn’t be for another ten months. His first significant military act as Prime Minister was not, it should be noted, to shore up support for the British Empire. Rather, it was to send British troops to fight in Norway against German invaders. Norway’s King Haakon VII was determined to resist Hitler, telling the German ambassador that his was a sovereign independent nation, but would cease to be if it acceded to German demands. Norway would not be the only national government to look to Churchill and Britain for leadership. Poland, the Netherlands, Greece, Czechia, and France all relied on Britain for national salvation. Churchill might have been a war-mongering imperialist, but only in the sense that he decided to use the empire he led to fight against the Nazi’s progressive imperialism. Niall Ferguson notes that Churchill, “staunch imperialist that he was, did not have to think long before rejecting Hitler’s squalid offer” to let the British Empire “survive alongside a Nazified Europe.” Churchill, argues Ferguson, ultimately sacrificed his empire to keep the Nazis from destroying the principle of conservative nationality. One would think that a national conservative like Tucker Carlson would appreciate that.  

An expert discussion“Israel: Between the Collective West and the Global South” was held in Tel Aviv, organized by the Dor Moriah Think Tank as part of The Haifa Format project

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On August 6, 1957, St Louis mayor Raymond R. Tucker, the quintessential technocrat, sourly watched the votes get tallied. His initiative, backed by the city’s business elite, to amend the city charter in order to blunt the power of local aldermen and unions went down in defeat. An unlikely coalition of forces including the NAACP,

With six Israeli hostages dead, one of them a US citizen, and massive Israeli protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raging in the country, a very public game of finger-pointing has ensued. Asked on Monday if Netanyahu was doing enough to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, President Joe Biden curtly answered,

"The political and strategic objectives of the United States and its measures to intervene in Ukraine can be confirmed by numerous official and unofficial documents. These include, for example, the President's published National Security Strategies, US laws and other legal acts that relate to Ukraine and US financial support for Ukraine with the intention of influencing the policy and party landscape in Ukraine," the Austrian court noted, adding that Washington DC's persecution of Firtash gave it the reason to question the professed democratic principles of the United States, "a country with sham traditions of democracy and legal statehood".

Last fall, Emily Krieger, a mother in Bozeman, Montana, began to wonder about the unending fees she was paying to provide her two children lunch money at their local public school. A cafeteria lunch at Emily Dickinson Elementary School, where Krieger’s children attend, costs $2.25, plus $1 for a carton of milk. Yet last year,

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“Then straightaway they departed from him which should have examined him; and the captain also was afraid, after he knew he was a Roman, and he had bound him.” Acts 22: 29 Last week an American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was brutally murdered in a tunnel beneath Gaza. Hamas held Hersh hostage for 11 months, after blowing off his arm with a grenade during the massacres of October 7th. Four other Americans are still held in Hamas’ tunnels and only one nation is fighting for their release: Israel. The Biden-Harris team is instead focused on negotiations and payment.  This comes just one month after the Biden-Harris team negotiated lopsided terms for the release of three Americans wrongfully detained in Russia:  Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva.  It seems that a disturbing trend has developed over the last three years: American hostages have become lucrative for terrorists and rogue regimes. The trend of capitulation in negotiations is not how a self-respecting superpower deals with hostage-taking. Authorities, groups, and individuals should fear harming American citizens as was the case with superpowers of the past.  The recent exchange negotiated by the Biden-Harris team—similar to the one involving Brittney Griner in 2022—traded convicted criminals and assassins for innocent Americans, two of whom were journalists abducted in Russia while working on stories. It has been reported that Putin anticipated this deal over a year ago, following the release of Ms. Griner, setting his sights on the release of convicted murderer and Russian national Vadim Krasikov. Putin pressed American diplomats at every engagement to release the assassin convicted of shooting a Georgian citizen in the back with a silenced pistol in the middle of Berlin’s famous Tiergarten in 2019. American diplomats yielded to Putin’s pressure and in doing so sent a message to the wider world that illegal behavior would be rewarded.  The same cunning behind Putin’s hostage-taking surely permeates the minds of Hamas’ leadership in Qatar and in Gaza, where four Americans have been held since Hamas attacked Israel, savagely massacring more than 1200 people and taking more than 250 hostages on October 7, 2023. No rescue attempt has been made by the American military. While citizens of other nations have been released, including the quick return of Thai hostages, Americans were instead viewed as valuable in negotiating a ceasefire. The belief seems to be that payment is more likely than punishment. In fact, the current administration has shown an aversion to any use of strength to return Americans.  Earlier this year, on two separate missions, Israel heroically rescued six hostages taken on October 7th. The more recent raid, which occurred in June and was a combined operation involving police, military, and intelligence units, was a resounding success. It showed a mastery of urban tactics, close air support, and intelligence collection within dense urban terrain. Yet within hours of the raid’s completion U.S. Central Command, the geographic combatant command of the world’s most dominant military power, put out a statement not to praise the incredible operation nor celebrate the successful rescue of innocent hostages, but rather one that demonstratively refuted any U.S. support was given to the rescue. The statement, and its sentiment, are telling, revealing a reluctance to provide any assistance, intelligence, or even endorsement of the rescue of hostages. Diplomacy and ransom, it seems, are preferred over strength and justice.  Since October 7 the Biden administration has largely avoided discussing Americans held in Gaza, favoring instead talk of aid to Palestinians. In the days surrounding the June rescue, U.S. Central Command made regular boasts about their effort to build a pier and deliver money, aid, and materials to Gaza without ever mentioning efforts to secure hostages.  All of this is a break from traditional protections for citizens of the world’s dominant superpower. Cicero, 70 years before Christ’s birth, spoke frequently of the power of Roman citizenship, popularizing the phrase Civis Romanus sum (“I am [a] Roman citizen”) throughout his In Verrum speeches. Just shy of a century later, that same protection, recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, was afforded to Saint Paul. Closer to our own time in 1850, when a Jewish British citizen was attacked in Athens by an antisemitic mob, Henry John Temple, then British Foreign Secretary, invoked the phrase when he called for, and enacted, a British naval blockade of Greece. A century later, standing at the Berlin Wall and decrying the imprisonment of East Germans by the physical manifestation of Russian authoritarianism, President Kennedy stated that Civis Romanus Sum was the proudest boast that could be made.  Citizenship of the world’s leading power has long been a mark of protection and pride. But under the current policies, it is becoming a price tag. This is a dangerous trend that must be reversed by a show of strength and resolve.  During the Trump administration, when an American mother, Caitlin Coleman, and her three children were held hostage by the Haqqani network in Pakistan, the president directed American forces to rescue her. He then directed the State Department to warn the Pakistani government of the imminent operation. The Pakistani government, fearing another embarrassing U.S. raid into the nation, rapidly moved to secure the release of the mother and her children. No payment was made—the threat of force was enough. That same threat of force has been absent during the current administration. For the sake of Americans traveling and working abroad, it must return. American Civis Sum should be a statement of protection and a guarantee of justice, not of a price tag. 

The new Reagan film biopic is crack cocaine for us old Reagan true believers. It marches through each great moment and line that are already indelibly etched in our memories. There’s his debate (“There you go again…”) and landslide against Jimmy Carter, his dashing response to being shot (“I forgot to duck.”), the air traffic controllers strike, his personal appeal to aging Soviet leaders that finally results in his momentous Geneva summit with Gorbachev, his debate with Walter Mondale, in which he killed concerns about his age, humorously citing Mondale’s “youth and inexperience.”  Almost nobody wanted him to say “tear down this wall” in Berlin, but it became his greatest moment. The failed attempt at massive nuclear disarmament at Reykjavik because Reagan refused to abandon missile defense was another masterstroke adding nails to the Soviet coffin. And then there are Reagan’s formative events as a young lay preacher in his smalltown Illinois church, his charming but drunken father and pious mother, the inspirational boyhood novel (That Printer of Utrell’s) that he loved about an alcoholic’s son who becomes a Christian and goes to Washington, DC, his lifeguarding on the river, his playing football at Eureka College, serving as a radio sportscaster in Iowa, becoming a Hollywood star, fighting Communist influence in the Screen Actors Guild, his failed marriage with actress Jane Wyman, the collapse of his own acting career, and his growing passion for politics leading to his televised appeal for Barry Goldwater, which didn’t help Goldwater but did make him governor of California and leader of conservative Republicans until his 1980 election as president. All of us who loved Reagan and who are old enough to recall already know these events well. The reminders in this film are vivid and emotional. This is true even though the film itself is not a great production. It has the technical and moralistic feel of a 1980s devotional film shown in church basements. The film’s producer specializes in faith-based films, hence the important focus on Reagan’s early church experience. There is the long complaint that “Christian” and “faith-based” in film usually mean lower budget and lower quality. Scenes shot at Reagan’s ranch retreat, with the Pacific Ocean in the distance, are beautiful. But the film, among other oversights, lacks a powerful musical score, which Reagan’s epic, and world transformative life surely merits. His good-bye letter to America after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, with which the film concludes, is always powerful. This Reagan biopic is a message film. Fans of the message will like it, and skeptics of the message are mocking it. A more artistic production might have been more persuasive. But sometimes the true believers need bolstering, and this film provides it. A silly review in The Daily Beast bemoaned: “You may have suspected that this MAGA-tinged hagiography would be absolute trash, but it turns out you didn’t think low enough.”  The clueless reviewer doesn’t notice that Reagan and this film rebuke our current politics by celebrating idealism, charity, optimism, and good will, all which Reagan is shown embodying.  Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neil praying with Reagan at his post-assassination attempt bedside by itself shames our current moment and points to humanity’s higher aspirations. Reagan did not demean, mock or demagogue. He was the product of early 19th century Protestant Midwestern piety, earnest, sincere, crusading, and, in his case, varnished and made worldly by late 1930s Hollywood. And his Hollywood panache gave him the elan to be more than a politician and to incarnate the national spirit, almost monarchically. Reagan called himself the Errol Flynn of B films. He was not a great movie actor, but his Hollywood years were only a preparation for his greatest performance as president who wins the Cold War. The film interestingly develops only Reagan as a serious character, with everyone else as supporting backdrop, even Nancy. Long time aides Mike Deaver and Bill Clark have a few lines, James Baker, and Ed Meese almost nothing. Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger is nearly silent, and Secretary of State George Shultz has a few complaints. Treasury Secretary and Chief of Staff Don Regan never appears. Someone looking like Budget Director David Stockman speaks once. National Security Advisor John Poindexter briefly appears. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher briefly waxes hot and cold. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is quietly shown. Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone makes a supportive phone call. An elderly looking Gorbachev, who was actually 20 years younger than Reagan, is foil and friend in a few scenes.  The spotlight is exclusively on Reagan. He was not an egotist but surely as an actor he would have appreciated being center stage. This film, despite its flaws, is emotionally powerful for many of us because of its memories. The Reagan years for some of us, at least through the mists of time, seem magical. If you were in DC, it felt like a dream, like the Wizard of Oz. Reagan was the mysterious and powerful Wizard, behind the White House gates, his motorcade occasionally emerging amid great fanfare, with trucks blocking intersections and helicopters overhead. When he appeared, it was like a movie set. Once my father and I encountered him leaving a Georgetown club. He stepped onto the limousine door sill and waved with a grin. The crowd was ecstatic. One girl was hyperventilating. That image never leaves my mind. Reagan’s critics thought he was a vapid Wizard, only a façade, manipulated by stagecraft. But he was a shrewd Wizard, who deployed his strengths and didn’t agonize over his weaknesses, as his presidential predecessors had. His greatest gifts were serenity and confidence. And if he was the Wizard, then the Soviet Union was the Wicked Witch, always hovering in the sky as a threat. But the Wizard kept us safe and ultimately extinguished the Witch with shocking sang-froid. Who really was the Wizard? This film tries to explain but doesn’t really answer. Even Nancy, in real life, admitted she did not truly know him. He remains a mystery, a smiling Sphynx, whose legacy will endure. Reagan the film across two- and one-half hours shares many familiar anecdotes about the man. But the Wizard is inexplicable, which was his power. And the whole world was a beneficiary.

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Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Ayman Ashour welcomed Lin Xin, China’s Vice Minister of Science and Technology, to explore collaborative efforts in scientific, research, and technological fields

According to John Helmer, who has been based in Russia since 1989, making him the longest-serving foreign correspondent in the country, the Russian military is keeping operational silence, "but there are hints from the Ukraine, as well as from Russian military bloggers", that Lieutenant Colonel Mes was likely killed in his F-16 by an air-to-air missile fired by the Su-57.

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The Kiev regime and international media paraded Colonel Mes but he was quickly killed.

Knox Thames’ Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom is the most significant contribution to the literature on American global religious freedom advocacy since Tom Farr’s 2008 tome World of Faith and Freedom. Thames, like Farr, is a practitioner, sharing his diplomatic experience and insights while engaging with relevant scholarship.  Since 2008, the international religious freedom (IRF) movement has adapted to changing global circumstances while expanding substantially. Thames himself has been a leading catalyst and strategist behind that expansion. When he left government in 2021, Thames was the longest-serving American civil servant focused on IRF. As a disclosure, I have collaborated with Thames throughout my career, and we were colleagues at the State Department during the George W. Bush administration. Ending Persecution provides unique analysis and recommendations drawn from Thames’ extensive first-hand experience. We see Thames meeting with heads of state, foreign ministers, and senior clerics. We get the backstory on how he helped to create the Religious Freedom Roundtable of NGOs in Washington, the International Contact Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief (ICG-FoRB), the Inter-Parliamentary Panel on FoRB, the Ministerial on religious freedom (the largest event ever held at the State Department), and the 38-country International Religious Freedom and Belief Alliance. And we get a front-row seat to his intrepid advocacy at the UN to thwart the efforts of China, Pakistan, and others to thwart progress on human rights. Thames “avoids the gossip of an insider’s account” (6), but he does give readers many poignant and sometimes amusing anecdotes. There’s a reassuring comment from President Obama about his personal commitment to pushing for religious freedom in India; an awkward and disappointing meeting with Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi; and Uzbek foreign minister Abdulaziz Kamilov proposing a vodka toast to religious freedom. Thames tells us “Growing up Baptist, I had never had vodka before. But I went bottoms-up for the cause” (127). Ending Persecution is creatively structured and engagingly written. Every chapter draws the reader in with a diplomatic story that provides a narrative arc for Thames’ discussion. Over the course of the book, Thames describes four main typologies of persecution: authoritarian, illiberal democracy, extremism, and terrorism, illustrating each type with multiple real-world examples. These examples amount to useful primers on persecution in a range of hot spots such as Burma, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Reflecting Thames’ legal and diplomatic training, these primers are much more nuanced and precise than typical accounts from advocacy organizations that tend be awash in emotive, anecdotal, partial, or exaggerated descriptions of persecution. But reflecting the fact that Thames is now free from government bureaucracy, his national profiles are much more candid, interesting, and readable than the State Department’s invaluable but unstimulating annual reports on religious freedom.  Furthermore, unlike State Department reports, Thames also examines the historical development and contemporary experience of religious freedom in the United States. Here again his take is nuanced. He highlights America’s hard-earned successes in fostering pluralism without lapsing into white-washed hagiography. He readily acknowledges America’s struggles to inhabit its founding ideals without lapsing into cynicism or self-flagellation. “Our complicated history,” he says, “actually positions the United States to convincingly speak about human rights. Our work is not done. Yet these difficult lessons learned can animate US efforts to combat persecution internationally” (23-24).  Internationally, the U.S. record on religious freedom is just as mixed. And Thames’ take is just as balanced. The United States has done far more than any other nation—financially, diplomatically, and rhetorically—to advance religious freedom globally. But we’ve also made any number of foreign policy decisions that have complicated or even undermined that effort. For instance, Thames tells the story of his multiple trips to Iraq where the U.S. toppled a dictator but sparked a sectarian civil war that devastated Iraq’s ancient religious minority communities. In Afghanistan the U.S. removed the Taliban for two decades but allowed a Taliban-esque approach to religion-state relations—including the death penalty for apostasy and blasphemy—to remain part of Afghan governance. Of particular concern for Thames is America’s habit of designating the worst persecutors as “Countries of Particular Concern” and then immediately undermining those designations by granting waivers that allow persecuting governments to avoid sanctions for their oppression. He longs for a “consequential diplomacy” that more effectively discourages persecution in the first place—what Thames terms a “human rights deterrence policy” (chapter 4). Making the case that America can and should do better on religious freedom is an animating theme of the book. Because there’s a religious dimension to so many global challenges and because religious persecution is an affront to both American values and interests, the U.S. government should do more to advance religious liberty. But there’s a problem. America’s IRF tools are both underutilized and antiquated. America’s IRF architecture reflects the domestic and international politics of the 1990s. As Thames argues, “Current U.S. government structures to promote religious freedom are increasingly outdated and inadequate, created in a twentieth-century, Cold War framework” (324).  The book’s final chapter offers a range of thoughtful, practical recommendations for updating and strengthening America’s IRF promotion. He wants the United States to be more consistent. For example, don’t lambast Iranians while giving the equally repressive Saudis a pass on persecution. He argues for depolarizing America’s vexed debate over “religious freedom” and offers thoughtful reflections on how this right relates to other human rights and to diplomatic engagement with religious communities across the full range of issues. He makes his case for more funding, more training, and more refugee resettlement for those fleeing persecution. Ending persecution is an audacious goal, Thames admits, but it’s worthy of our investment.  The most original of Thames’ proposals is a long overdue overhaul of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), where Thames previously served in a senior capacity. Though a separate entity from the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom, the two are constantly confused for one another. Rather than scrapping the Commission or simply preserving the status quo, Thames makes the case for recasting USCIRF as ACIRF—the American Council on International Religious Freedom. ACIRF could be a sort of National Endowment for Democracy-type body, with board members rather than commissioners, that would complement rather than compete with the State Department office by more nimbly supporting the excellent work of organizations advancing religious freedom abroad. Overall, what may be the most significant contribution of Ending Persecution is simply Thames’ example of living out his Christian faith in both the halls of power and the huts of the powerless. He doesn’t explicitly dwell at length on the subject, but in a sense the entire book is testimony of what it can look like to serve as a Christian in American foreign policy. Reading the book, three themes stood out. The first is a critical patriotism. Thames is rightly proud of America and committed to advancing American leadership. But he’s also clear-eyed about America’s shortcomings and temptations. Second, he’s unwaveringly devoted to the universality of human rights. Therefore, he cautions against parochial approaches that advocate for just one faith group. Since leaving government, Thames founded an organization called Christians Against All Persecution. Third, a spirit of magnanimity pervades the book. Thames gives credit to scores of collaborators and is careful with his critiques, demonstrating the graciousness that has made him a successful coalition builder across the globe and across multiple administrations. His assessment of the IRF successes and failures of the Obama and Trump administrations is commendably even-handed.  Over the past quarter century, Knox Thames has been instrumental in shaping the U.S. government’s efforts in promoting religious freedom around the world. Ending Persecution is an enlightening, entertaining, and edifying account of how the U.S. has pursued that mission—and how it can do it better.

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Brazil’s situation with X has its own context and intricacies, but one can expect analogous scenarios to come about in other countries, especially in the contexts of elections, with potential political and geopolitical consequences. The truth is that the way to regulate social media and the internet as a whole is an inescapable discussion.

How many MiG-29s does Serbia have? The answer is 14, of which at least one serves for "cannibalizing" (its parts are used to service flightworthy jets). Three of the original aircraft were bought from the USSR in 1987, while the rest were donated by Russia (6) and Belarus (4) in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Thus, if Belgrade were to sell 36 MiG-29s to the Kiev regime, it would be left with exactly -22. If you think this calculation is silly, you're 100% right, it's completely ridiculous, just like the claim that Serbia is sending these jets to Ukraine.

According to Western media, Kiev should not expect receiving US long range missiles. Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.

Kursk operation has allowed Russian troops to progress towards Pokrovsk rapidly.

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Hungary’s dissident position makes the situation even more difficult for the bloc to reach a consensus about new coercive measures against the Russian Federation.

UK is one of the most affected countries by the energy crisis caused by anti-Russia sanctions.

We in the West are so accustomed to Christian beliefs and iconography that we often fail to even recognize their ubiquity. We use phrases like “falling from grace” and “ashes to ashes” without considering the complex theological roots of such terms. When we hear that someone has “found religion,” we presume they have become (re)oriented toward Jesus, not to Allah or astrology. The English writer G.K. Chesterton, keenly gazing from across the pond, famously quipped that America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” And while it may seem like society has become less nominally Christian, in many ways we are still deeply rooted in Christian morality, which the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (paraphrasing Nietzsche) referred to as the great “transvaluation of values.” Even today’s seemingly anti-Christian social justice movement, with its demands for ideological purity and its culture of cancellation, can be linked to Protestant moral ethics and demands for public confession. Yet this is not the case in the Far East, where Christianity is seen as a foreign Western influence. In China, where my ancestors are from, Christian expression is directly limited by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While it is technically legal to be a Christian, worship is controlled within the confines of the CCP, and state-sanctioned churches must only preach sermons approved by the regime. This is an issue, of course, for the Christians that want to hear the Gospel undiluted by atheist apparatchiks, those ready to censor any expression of Christian faith that may threaten the CCP’s iron grip on society. Unlike the West, where all faiths are expected to bend the knee to the principles of liberalism (which is really just a non-theistic framing of Protestant views on the rights of the individual), all faiths in China must live under the principles of Sinicization, where any religious belief must also be explicitly subordinate to the demands of the government. In addition, Christians (and adherents to other faiths as well) are not allowed to be members of the CCP, thus shutting down the chance that Chinese Christians could reform the system from the inside. Thus, the status of how open the CCP is to the West is directly linked to the status of Christians in China. In times of good relations between the CCP and Western governments, Chinese Christians have been able to practice their faith more freely. But when relations sour, the Chinese government cracks down on them. My maternal great-grandfather converted to Christianity in the late 1800s, when Anglican and Methodist missionaries traversed the areas near port cities spreading the Good News. Since then, my family of Christians have been through times of relative freedom to practice their faith, as well as times of great tumult to say the least.  When the CCP took power in 1949 under the leadership of Mao Zedong, non-Chinese proselytizers were forced to leave the country, although Chinese Christians could still practice their faith as long as their teachings did not threaten the government’s power. But the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) drove all Christians underground, and my own family had to hide their Bibles and hymnals for fear of persecution. It was not until after the Revolution that Christianity was permitted again, as was acceptance of some market reforms as China again re-established ties with the West under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. But in recent years, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, the government has banned online evangelization, arrested and jailed prominent pastors that refused toe the party line, and removed crosses from churches across the nation, all in an era where China is adopting a more nationalist stance. One thing is clear from the history of Christianity in China: Chinese Christians are the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the CCP’s attitudes toward the Western world. When the CCP feels unthreatened by the West, Christianity can be practiced more openly; when tensions between Beijing and the West are high, Christians are perceived as a potential fifth column that must be dealt with. Yet, the CCP’s view of Christianity as a Western religion notwithstanding, the truth is that Christianity is a universal (catholic) faith that may have started in what is now known as the Middle East, but was always destined to spread across the world. Jesus told His disciples to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,” (Matthew 28:19a), not just in what we today think of as the West. While there are powerful forces out there that may be able to hinder the Gospel, there is no force on Earth that can stop the Good News from opening hearts and minds in all nations. My Chinese Christian great-grandfather was seen by others as someone who had accepted a belief system invented by strangers, but in reality, he and the missionaries were no strangers, but family, for they were already brothers in Christ.

In recent periods, regional opinion polls across the different parts of the Global South suggest that there appears to be growing support for regional economic cooperation and regional integration

As the BRICS bloc continues to expand and establish itself as a hedge against so-called ‘Western nations,’ talk of forming a united currency for member states has been one of the more dominant topics

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced that Malaysia has officially applied to join the greater BRICS grouping. In late May, Thailand's Cabinet approved a draft application to join the newly expanded BRICS...

Macron has been pursuing bold foreign policy shifts, but it seems domestic issues may get on the way.

The Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky boasted that F-16s were used to allegedly shoot down Russian cruise missiles. If true, this would clearly indicate that the US-made jets were indeed flown, exposing them to possible detection and destruction by the Russian military, both in air and on the ground. There have been numerous analyses of the possible effectiveness of F-16s against the Kremlin's world-class SAM systems and/or aviation. Due to the Kiev regime's drastically lower technological base, it never stood a chance in matching the Russian military's capabilities.

There is no legal excuse to arrest Durov, since he obviously cannot be accused of crimes thar were committed by Telegram’s users.

Washington is not convinced that Ukraine intends to hold its position in Russia long-term.

Review of Stephen O. Presley’s Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like the Early Church (2024) Sometime in the early 50s AD, the ever trouble-prone Apostle Paul found himself jailed in the Macedonian city of Philippi. Originally named after Philip II, the great Macedonian conqueror of Greece and father of Alexander the Great, by Paul’s time the city was best remembered as the site of a major battle. Almost a century earlier here, in 42 BC, the armies of the Second Triumvirate, led by Octavian and Marc Antony, decisively defeated the forces of Julius Caesar’s assassins. It proved one of the final death knells for the Roman Republic. Perhaps this political history was of no import for Paul, but for the thoroughly Roman culture of the town it certainly mattered.  What was this pre-Christian Roman culture like? We forget, living in a world inescapably shaped by two-thousand years of Christianity, that many of the gentler aspects of the West have resulted from the slow but steady Christianization of culture. In particular, Christianity is how we learned to hate genocide, to treasure human life, to respect the dignity of all persons, and to abhor the casual cruelty towards the weak so common in the ancient world. It’s impossible read about the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Caesar’s Gallic Wars, a classic of Western history, and not recognize the stark difference between cultures that affirm the value of all persons according to the imago Dei and ones that do not. The latter view was a defining contrast between early Christianity and pagan religious practice, difficult to us in 2024 to fathom. Pagan gods most certainly did not love human beings, as a casual perusal of Greco-Roman mythology reminds. Much of the time they didn’t even like them, plotting their abuse and destruction in various ways. By contrast, according to Christianity, “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).  Paul’s sojourn in Philippi is illustrative of the revolutionary nature of Christian thought in the world of antiquity. Spending his night in jail worshiping God, Paul does not rail against the injustice of his arrest and the oppressive power of the empire. Instead, he remains steadfast in his faith, ultimately converting and baptizing the jailer and his family. He teaches him the gospel and equips him to start a local church, one that grows into a flourishing congregation—as Paul’s own letter to the Philippians a decade later attests. In other words, instead of keeping to himself in the Philippian jail, Paul used this opportunity to reach local leaders. In the process, he sanctified local culture, bringing Christianity into this outpost of the Roman world. This story seems extraordinary, but it was, if we look closely, rather common, even if not always as dramatic as Paul’s time in Philippi. In his new book, Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church, historian Stephen O. Presley draws on the Bible and an extensive array of early church primary sources to tell stories of Christians (including Paul) engaging their pagan neighbors wherever and whenever they could. Faced with a hostile culture, the natural reaction would have been to hide—and early Christian communities did plenty of that. But more often, Christians reached out to others, sometimes at great personal cost, owing to their conviction that the gospel was a matter of life or death. In the process, Christianity spread—as did its sanctifying effect on the ambient culture.  While this is a timeless truth of Christianity, Presley argues that it resonates particularly in Anno Domino 2024. First and foremost, he notes, it is because “we are the ancients”: Dechurching continues apace, and our culture is not just hostile to Christianity, but also moving fast to a post-Christian world—one bearing an alarming resemblance to the pre-Christian one. The transition to neopagan morality is borne out in the all-too-familiar culture wars of the last few generations. Present circumstances present believers with a number of questions dealing with identity, engagement with broader culture, and the relationship between church and state. Engaging these questions, Presley encourages Christians to take a Pauline approach thorough the discipleship of all believers. Why? Because unless we cultivate the evangelical mind, encouraging believers to obtain a thorough education in the Bible, theology, and in church history, our faith will be deracinated and uncertain. We are consistently being formed by something, the adage goes. And if not by catechesis, then by the world. Finally, unless we understand who we are as Christians, we cannot begin to engage other people and the culture around us as believers.  This last one—Christians engaging everyone around as Christians—is, perhaps, the most significant takeaway from this book. Quite often, modern secular life encourages what Presley terms bifurcation: we can be one person in one setting, someone else in another. The default of such thinking is why Christian colleges (rightly) place such emphasis on the integration of faith and learning. This integration does not come naturally to us moderns. And yet, thinking theologically in all areas of life is essential to the renewal of Christian culture so many of us desire. Particularly as another presidential election cycle nears its conclusion, we would do well to recall that our citizenship is ultimately in heaven and that the greatest battle has already been won. Presley reflects, in this regard: “Significantly, in our democratic republic, we have a greater degree of influence over the political systems than did Christians in ancient Rome. Christian citizens, whether then or now, recognize that civil leaders and emperors, no matter how brutal and wicked, have been appointed by God for divine purposes. Politics thus is not the problem, nor is it the solution.” We are to be, in other words, in the world but not of it. Haven’t we heard it all along? Presley’s mastery of the primary sources is undeniable. No less significant is his modeling of how we can still be, as Jesus calls us, wise as serpents and gentle as doves. In this age of culture wars, which some (on all sides) wage all too loudly and ungracefully, Presley’s exhortation stands out—for Christians to be more like Justin Martyr, Cyprian, and the nameless multitudes who focused on loving God, living holy lives, and influencing the culture through quiet evangelism rather than fiery rhetoric on social media. In attempting to sanctify the culture, our personal witness matters.   We can—and should—mourn the decline of Christianity in the West. It is never easy to live in a climate of hostility, whether from the culture at large or members of our community. But God is still giving us the same call He gave to the early Christians: Beloved, be salt and light.

On Jan 1, the Brics chairmanship shifted from South Africa to the Russian Federation. Russia is going to further promote strategic partnership on the basis of continuity and consensus, increase the role of Brics in global affairs, which is reflected in the motto of Russia's chairmanship: "Strengthening multilateralism for just global development and security"

New Development Bank: a bank for the global south by the global south

Jeffrey Sachs says countries are gravitating towards BRICS in response to the US weaponising the US dollar-based monetary system

America is the only country on Earth that has a plan to wage a simultaneous nuclear war with three nuclear-armed states – Russia, China and North Korea.

According to Ukraine’s top commander, the main goal of the operation was to divert Russia’s attention from Donbass frontlines.

After the victory of the Patriotic Forces in the EU elections in Austria, many people also expect a political change in the national parliamentary elections. These elections could also have an impact on the political landscape in Europe.

Biden has only made the US debt significantly increase.

Since at least the nineteen-eighties, Americans have had a fairly established pantheon of conservative thinkers and statesmen. Figures such as William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, Leo Strauss, and Barry Goldwater have dominated the minds of young Republicans and established intellectuals. A more historically minded conservative would include on this list John Adams and Calvin Coolidge, while someone with no historical memory would likely add Michael Anton and Tucker Carlson. With the exception of Edmund Burke and Alexis De Tocqueville, very few Americans look beyond our borders to understand the history of conservatism. Ron Dart’s recently published work, The North American High Tory Tradition, serves as a corrective to this nationalistic hubris through its brilliant account of Canadian conservatism and its divergence from the American right.       What Is High Toryism The major goal of Dart’s book is to show that, until recently, Canadian conservatism was starkly different from its counterpart in the United States. This difference can be attributed partly to the fact that many royalist loyalists fled from the United States to the Canadian frontier during the American Revolution, but also to the strong cultural and political ties that continued to exist between Canada and England well into the twentieth century. While American conservatism is the product of thinkers and statesmen like Locke, Jefferson, and Hamilton – all classical liberals – Canadian conservatism was infused with a “tory touch” by thinkers such as John A. Macdonald and Bishop John Strachan. In a short but insightful preface, Dart outlines the political positions that make up the Tory tradition. The Tory school of politics is usually painted as center-right on social issues and center-left on economic ones. Though this characterization is not untrue, Dart ably shows that this description oversimplifies Toryism. Tory thought traces its origin to the natural law theorists of the Roman Republic and Roman Catholic Church, though this natural law is mediated through the innate moderation of the Anglican church. At the heart of this political vision is a concern for the common good. This High Tory Canadian vision articulated by Dart argues that only by grounding politics in “certain immutable principles” can societal decay be averted and that both the state and the public have an important role to play in instilling those principles. In practice, this means a powerful, though still restrained, national government that emphasizes the importance of tradition, religion, liberal arts education, community, and the promotion of the economic welfare of all citizens. The High Tory Critique of America Throughout his book, Dart juxtaposes the Tory vision with American liberalism. Latent in this comparison is a critique of the American model of politics. Rather than explain the Tory critique of liberalism in a long philosophic tract, most of the North American High Tory Tradition is dedicated to examining the political thought of various Canadian thinkers and their interlocutors in the Anglosphere. Foremost among Dart’s roster of Tory grandees is George Grant (1918-1988). Grant dominated the Canadian philosophic world for much of the twentieth century and his Lament For A Nation (1965) is one of the seminal tracts of Canadian nationalism. Concerned with the importation of American ideas to Canada, Grant’s book is a work of resistance that seeks to show the problems with American liberalism and highlight the virtues of a High Tory Canadian perspective. Grant contrasted the common good vision of Toryism with American republicanism, in which government has little say about moral issues and the fundamental questions of human life are handled in the private sector. Grant, and by extension Dart, argue that this view inevitably leads to a society consumed with individualism. A society where the common good is forgotten in favor of the accumulation of wealth and the spread of empire.  Is There An American Toryism? As an American engaging with Dart and the Canadian Tory tradition, two questions spring to mind: how fair is the Tory critique of America, and does America have anything like a Tory tradition? Dart and Grant’s critique of liberal republicanism rings true of certain brands of America’s republican tradition. Alexander Hamilton and other key framers, following the lead of Montesquieu and Hume, created a commercial republic whose motivating force was personal gain and individualism. This principle, which Grant sees at the heart of the commercial republic, was summarized succinctly by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 23, stating that “money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic.” Dart and Grant’s condemnation of commercial republicanism is somewhat fair. A republic built on selfishness can only ever create a selfish people with little regard for the common good. However, this vision of American politics is disputable. While some founders wished to build a republic on low but sturdy foundations, most thought morality and piety were every bit as important as rights and institutions in encouraging human flourishing. John Dickinson’s first act as Governor of Pennsylvania was to issue a proclamation encouraging pious virtue, and in the Constitution of Massachusetts John Adams argued that without reverence for a higher being, humans could not gain wisdom. Neither of these is meant to indicate that the United States should have a state religion, but it is clear that there are elements of the American founding that combine the very best of liberalism with the very best of Toryism. As Adams and Dickinson indicate, the United States does have its own distinct Tory tradition – one infused with the unique principles of the United States and its founding. Commercial republicanism is not the only vision that has shaped American politics. This becomes especially obvious when looking through the history of the nineteenth century. With the rise of Jacksonian populism – and the selfishness it encouraged – figures such as John Quincy Adams brought a different kind of republicanism to the forefront of American political life, one that had always played a part in the ideology of the Federalist Party. For Adams, the heart of any republic must be virtue. Departing from modern commercial individualism, he argued that “Virtue is the oxygen, the vital air of the moral world. Immutable and incorruptible itself.” Though monarchies, aristocracies, and dictatorships can survive without a virtuous citizenry, Adams contended that republics are different, relying totally upon the character of public officials and private citizens alike. Without virtue, republics are doomed to sink into despotism, consumed by avarice and corruption. He also merrily jettisoned the notion that freedom to live life according to personal whimsy is the highest good, instead advocating for a vision of human flourishing that entailed living in accordance with truth and goodness, though without state intervention to force such behavior. In essence, to be virtuous was to be free. In order to encourage virtue, Adams argued that republics must downplay the role of individuals and focus instead on the common good by creating an educational system that encourages selflessness and public service through the cultivation of tradition, rootedness, and religion. This required a powerful but restrained government willing to spend money on social programs and overcome sectional divides. This view of republicanism became one of the core ideas of the Whig Party, then carried into the Republican Party by figures such as Lincoln. Since then, Adams’ republic of virtue has become a persistent theme among some American thinkers and politicians. One only need look to the political thought of figures as diverse as Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Dewey, and Franklin Roosevelt to see the continuing influence of this vision in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This republican vision has a great deal in common with High Tory political thought. Both emphasize the common good as the foundation of the regime and both emphasize tradition, religion, and education as some of the surest paths to securing that foundation. Much of it is rooted in the same sources as Tory thought – Christian thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Roman moral philosophers like Cicero. In short, America has its own High Tory republican tradition. One not fully recognized by Dart or a plethora of modern conservative academics. This is not to say that the idea of a virtuous republic is identical to High Toryism, but there is no denying that there is a strong resemblance. In our contemporary moment – one consumed with selfishness, individualism, and a dangerous disregard for tradition – it seems more important than ever that we appreciate the “Tory touch” in Canadian politics and revive Republican Toryism in America. Reading the work of Ron Dart is a great place for a citizen to begin this journey.  

Russia and China have planned to launch five joint missions to place modules in orbit and on the surface of the Moon

BRICS was originally created as a constellation of the regional leaders of the developing world. The economic imperatives of BRICS development and the opportunities offered by its unique cross-continental/regional format imply that BRICS is in a position to co-integrate the respective regional integration platforms and development institutions, in which BRICS economies are playing a leading role

Southeast Asia is witnessing a potential power shift with Malaysia’s application to join the BRICS+alliance confirmed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. With Thailand’s application under way as well, the grouping now lengthens its reach and could signal a significant shift in the region’s economic and geo-political alignment in the Southeast Asia region

People like Major General Komornicki are perfectly aware of the consequences of antagonizing Russia. Unfortunately, endemic Russophobia is clouding the judgment of Polish top leadership.

The Kiev regime has no limits in its dictatorial practices, even persecuting its own politicians.

Yet the UK and EU continue to prioritise Ukraine instead of citizen interests.

Review of Danny Kruger’s Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood, and Nation (2023) In the final episode of The Office, the Cornell-educated salesman Andy Bernard pensively observed, “I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.” Danny Kruger’s 2023 book Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood, and Nation, concisely explains Britain’s slow passage from the “good old days” to the chaos and disarray of the present. The stability and predictability of the past is that much clearer when contrasted with the wars, unrest, economic crises, and threats of terror that Britain—and the West—face today. Kruger’s work is not an apologetic for the past—yes, the British Empire perpetrated many crimes and the past was far from perfect. Yet Kruger is not concerned with the finer details of history but rather the historiographical lens through which the relationship between past and present is understood. Until relatively recently, people were born into a world marked by “the arrangement of society around a common conception of the way to live, and around the common practices of worship,” which Kruger refers to as “The Order.” In other words, even through all the vicissitudes inevitably constitutive of being, a coherent telos could still imbue human life with meaning. The benefits of this received tradition were immense: a common sense of morality that informed personal and civic virtue; individuals oriented from birth as part of communities large and small; and a society indexed to “providing the support and the restraint that individuals need to live well with one another.” The Enlightenment inflicted a slow-bleeding yet mortal wound on The Order. The slow death gave way to the emergence of “The Idea,” which eroded the foundations the social institutions—families, churches, and social networks—that made up The Order. The Idea in its most rudimentary form is “that there exist autonomous agents, called individuals, who both self-determine and self-moralise.” Persons infected with The Idea choose who they are, what is right, wrong, and even the nature of reality. This conception of the individual has had disastrous effects, resulting in an atomized society largely unprepared for and disinclined towards living productively as a part of communities that require some type of conformity to a broader sense of morality or duty. Kruger rightly describes a chain reaction of institutional demise. For example, the decline of marriage has led to the decline of the family. The decline of the family, in turn, has led to the dissolution of home-life as the center of productivity; of intertwined social and economic networks; of the village; and of myriad other institutions dependent on persons whose self-understanding could be intelligible in light of something bigger than themselves. As social institutions that once regulated (and ordered) human behavior began to decline, impersonal government intervention became necessary to replace the safeguards and safety nets once provided by local communities. Complex human relationships are defined by concepts like love, duty, and respect, all of which are unquantifiable and, therefore, impossible to bureaucratize. With these mediating institutions compromised or eradicated, the government “solutions” have only exacerbated the problems. The rise of radical personal autonomy and the resultant atomization of the individual have essentially knocked the legs out from the mediating institutions that were a part of “The Order” and eliminated the safety nets, social networks, and “little platoons,” in Edmund Burke’s words, that once held Western society together. Kruger’s discussion of solutions understandably focuses on Britain, but is certainly applicable to other Western nations. A resurgence of The Order is dependent upon “the transfer of power from the state to local places.” He describes in general terms cooperation between local stakeholders and national and local governments to reach solutions regarding problems like housing shortages, for example. These proposals represent the application of the principle of subsidiarity, one of the classic tenants of Christian social teaching. Kruger’s first chapter is one of the clearest and most compelling descriptions of what lies at the heart of the West’s radical shift towards individualism and resultant decline. The following chapters also contain well-crafted explanations of the havoc wrought by radical autonomy on marriage, family, and society more broadly. There are, however, two issues worth noting in this otherwise very helpful book. First, in the chapter entitled “On Sex and Death,” Kruger describes marriage as a covenant forming the basis of family. A wife’s children, for example, are presumed to be the husband’s offspring and so the law obligates the husband to the care and provision of the children. However, there is one disjointed comment that seems to affirm same-sex marriage: “Same-sex marriage…does not invalidate this principle, nor does the principle invalidate same-sex marriage: all marriages, gay and straight, involve the union of difference.” If this statement is to provide an interpretive lens for the chapter, it seems that Kruger does not clearly define the telos of marriage. Is it sex? Or is it children? At different times he seems to suggest different things. If the answer is sex, the question that logically follows is, “What is the telos of sex?” That answer is either children, whose telos is the propagation of society, or something else. It is well-documented—from time immemorial, in fact—that sex between two men or two women does not result in children. It could be that he is fully aware that same-sex marriage presents a challenge to defining the telos of marriage, but political realities preclude an argument that concedes this and he, like me in this article, is disinterested in relitigating whether same sex marriage should be legal in the context of writing something entirely unrelated to the issue. Second, while Kruger’s policy recommendations are broad, the challenges involved in resurrecting The Order are significant. The fact is that, like it or not, we are moderns who have been conditioned by The Idea, no matter how much we long for The Order and recognize its benefits. Family life has been transformed and it is almost impossible to envision an industrialized or post-industrial world that somehow mirrors the pre-modern home-as-economic-center model Kruger describes. Certainly things like dishwashers and hot water heaters have made domestic life less burdensome for women, who were the initial beneficiaries of these innovations. Covenant is a short book and certainly not intended as a policy manifesto, so I cannot criticize Kruger for his dearth of detail on how to translate “the good old days” into a contemporary context. He does admit that we cannot and should not turn back the clock on equality of the sexes or any number of positive social developments of the past 250 years. But, is there a solution rather than merely a diagnosis lurking in the ideas in this book? I hope so. Civilizational ideals are universal ideals, and we desperately need to revive them. Since the book’s publication in 2023, though the Conservative party has endured an embarrassing electoral defeat, Danny Kruger has retained his seat in a dramatically smaller Tory parliamentary delegation. Hopefully, this will result in Kruger’s ideas gaining more purchase in a party reeling from electoral defeat and in search of a new approach. But, even so, with such a comparatively small number in Opposition, any influence would likely not translate into wider influence. The book, however, is well worth reading and considering even for those outside of the U.K. who are interested in cultural renewal.

India’s growing relationship with Russia impacts China, but Russia gains more than India does

The BRICS grouping, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has set its sights on revolutionizing the global financial landscape. At the heart of this transformation lies the goal of reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar in settlement transactions—a process known as de-dollarization

From Thursday, August 29, to Saturday, August 31, 2024, the BRICS’ New Development Bank, NDB, will host its Ninth Annual Meeting, in South Africa at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, CTICC, under the theme “Investing in a Sustainable Future”

While Washington pivots to the Pacific, its transatlantic allies are left with the hard task of becoming a kind of suicidal proxies for the United States’ war of encirclement against Russia. As for Washington’s AUKUS’ allies, the prognostic involves damaging their economic relationship with China and becoming entangled in a new Cold War.

Diplomatic crisis between Ukraine and African countries tend to worsen after investigations about Ukrainian embassy being visited by jihadists.

"I can honestly say that Venezuela's electoral system is one of the best and most reliable in the world," Bojan Torbica.

However, the Ukrainian president still hasn’t lifted the ban on negotiations with the Kremlin.

In his debut column for The Free Press, Niall Ferguson highlights some of the challenges currently facing the United States. Particularly for conservatives, his criticisms are painfully familiar: aging leadership, an ever-expanding state, a weakened military, an out-of-touch elite, and mounting debt. However, Ferguson’s provocative thesis—“Are we the baddies?”—immediately nullifies these criticisms. Ferguson’s column would have been uncontroversial, if somewhat dull, had he not framed it within the context of the U.S.–China rivalry. In his pursuit of provocation, he undermines his objective. Ferguson writes: But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. It’s a bit like that moment when the British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, playing Waffen-SS officers toward the end of World War II, ask the immortal question: “Are we the baddies?” Jonah Goldberg has argued that this criticism fails on domestic and moral grounds, and there is little to add. Outside the far left and far right, most sane Americans would agree that the American regime and the international order it upholds are morally good, at least compared to the alternatives of China, Russia, and Iran. But beyond the moral argument, Ferguson further errs in comparing the United States with China in amoral terms. For all America’s problems, China is far weaker and less capable of winning a protracted conflict. In March 2019, two different papers—one by Derek Scissors, a China economist at the American Enterprise Institute, and another by four economists for the Brookings Institution—argued that China has been exaggerating its economic numbers and GDP by up to 30 percent. More recently, Scissors informed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that “The GDP gap between the U.S. and PRC was well over $7 trillion in 2022, versus $8 trillion in 2012.” China has continued to exaggerate its numbers at similar levels since. Its actual, nominal GDP could be as low as $12 trillion. In 2023, its aggregate local and central government debt was $12.5 trillion. In comparison, the United States ended 2023 with $33 trillion in general public debt and a $27 trillion GDP. While both countries face debt problems, the magnitudes are similar as a percentage of GDP. The economic infrastructures of the two countries are vastly different. The U.S. economy is built on free markets. Although imprudent government intervention has often slowed the American economy’s growth, these obstructions could theoretically be easily removed. China, in contrast, faces a different and much more intractable set of economic problems. Dan Blumenthal succinctly explained China’s growth model to me: “China builds a building, which increases GDP, knocks it down, which increases GDP again, and then builds it back to add to its GDP numbers.” U.S. growth is self-sustaining, while China’s recent economic struggles preview what is to come due to its lack of an economic base to sustain growth. The wealth disparity between the two countries is vast, which is important as national wealth is the key source of purchasing power, not GDP. Chinese household wealth is $84 trillion. U.S. household wealth is $140 trillion, two-thirds larger. This disparity is growing, having gone from $50 trillion in 2012 to $55 trillion in 2022. Ferguson addresses other problems as well. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are old, but so is Xi Jinping. However, since he published his column, the Democratic Party forced Biden to quit the race, precisely because his age was an electoral vulnerability. This is nearly inconceivable in China. Furthermore, even if septuagenarian Trump wins in November, he will not lead America in five years, while Xi will likely remain in power in 2029. The American elite is filled with bad, out of touch ideas, Ferguson charges. And yet, the Chinese elite is communist and corrupt—and communism is worse than whatever the American elite believes in. And American society can and is resisting these bad ideas, whereas the Chinese people must succumb to communism. Both the U.S. and China have entitlement problems due to demographics. The U.S. mitigates this with immigration, whereas China is no immigrant’s first choice as a destination. American life expectancy has declined, but China’s population is shrinking. Americans have unhealthy lifestyles and diets, yet Americans’ poor standards are the envy of many Chinese. Americans may not be as religious or produce as many children as before, but the Chinese state is cracking down on religion and dealing with the disastrous consequences of its One Child Policy. Ferguson’s warning is not that the U.S. will turn into the Soviet Union of the 1980s, but that it will become what China is now. These criticisms are valid in a vacuum, not in comparison with China. Given the options, any sane and honest person would prefer America’s position over China’s. Ferguson’s invocation of the hollowed-out military is also misguided. He writes, “We have a military that is simultaneously expensive and unequal to the tasks it confronts,” without clearly defining those tasks. While Taiwan is the most immediate concern regarding China, it is not the full picture. It is more accurate to say that the U.S. military is not well-positioned to deter a war with China, but it would be wrong to claim it cannot win one. Washington has been feckless in ignoring the U.S. military’s shortcomings and the Chinese buildup. Without correcting the course, the gap between the two militaries may soon become uncomfortably narrow. However, assuming the Chinese military is as powerful as advertised has its own risks. The failures of Russia’s and Iran’s conventional capabilities against Ukraine and Israel, respectively, should give us pause, as should the endemic corruption in the People’s Liberation Army’s senior ranks, leading to frequent firings and disappearances. Even assuming China doesn’t exaggerate its military strength as with its economy, there is no reason to accept defeat prematurely. Should the United States decide that it must win a war with China, our vibrant economy, technological edge, and wealth will prolong the war while transitioning to a wartime economy to produce unprecedented capabilities. The U.S. alliance system is another strength. Forward positioning allows the U.S. military to threaten the Chinese homeland in a way China cannot reciprocate. It will also be able to disrupt Chinese maritime trade and deteriorate China’s war chest by relying on its forward deployment and allies. China can do no such thing. Our allies’ military and economic contributions are also important. Lastly, America has richer, more innovative, and more reliable allies than China, whose friends are limited to Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Most importantly, the U.S. regime is legitimate at home. Despite objections to the current political establishment, few Americans wish to overthrow the republic. Certainly, there are more Chinese who oppose the Chinese Communist Party than Americans who wish to see the U.S. Constitution overthrown. Ferguson is correct in pointing out America’s crises, arguably the worst since the 1960s. However, he flounders in seeking to convince his audience that America’s issues are worse than China’s. America, for all its problems, is still by far the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, but one with worrying trends. These trends are concerning enough that they do not need exaggeration. Ferguson should continue to emphasize them. But by making an inappropriate comparison to the Soviet Union, and implicitly to China, he did not move the ball. Rather, he caused a distraction.

By connecting different developing regions around the world, BRICS can really present itself as an alternative rule-maker in global governance, based on UN rules, Nabi Sonboli writes

The increased use of digital assets in cross-border settlements between Russia and China is easing bilateral payment issues, digital platform Qifa told Reuters, as some settlements directly through banks are taking months to clear due to sanctions

It is important that efforts be made in a more tangible and practical way to bolster our common humanity should we seek a shared destiny. Drawing upon the uneven distribution of knowledge competences, it could prove useful for the BRICS+ to utilise their capacities and capabilities in science and technology to provide information and technical solutions on a more socialised basis, Rasigan Maharajh writes

Pashinyan is not only enabling NATO to undermine the much-needed dismantling of the so-called "rules-based world order", but he's also destroying Armenia's one remaining strategic option. Namely, Yerevan has been building closer ties with India, perhaps the sole decent move of the Pashinyan regime. This includes the acquisition of weapons from Delhi. Iran was crucial in the implementation of this strategy, but with the deployment of US troops in Syunik, Pashinyan managed to destroy Armenia's last strategic option besides Russia.

These diversionary maneuvers tend to accelerate the end of the Kiev regime, since Russia’s patience is clearly running out.

Russian crude accounted for a record 44% of India’s total imports in July.

Azerbaijan formally submitted its application to join the BRICS group, according to an announcement made by the head of the press service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The 11th meeting of the Russian-Chinese Intergovernmental Commission on Investment Cooperation co-chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov and Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Ding Xuexiang has taken place

BRICS comprising of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is an organization that was made in 2009 for assisting each other. This actually come into being right after the economic crisis of 2008. When economic crisis occurs, developed nation like G-7 did not abet other nations which ultimately urge these countries to build an organization to assist each other and do economic collaborations

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America's efforts to train the Kiev regime in cyber warfare go back nearly a decade. Since then, thousands (if not tens of thousands) acquired various skills that can be used either in war or in cybercrime. And not every hacker is willing to "fight for Ukraine" when it's far easier to use those skills to steal millions from unsuspecting individuals from all over the world, including Western countries that financed it all.

Beyond economic suicide, Europe is now placing itself at risk, militarily. With the deployment of American nuclear warheads to Germany, the world becomes a less safe place, and the future looks darker.

The Kiev regime is making the country uninhabitable for its own citizens.

Armenian society and politics are turning to the West without paying attention to the risks. The Armenian state is now facing economic and social crisis.

American, British and Polish intelligence services assisted Ukraine in its invasion of Kursk.

Egyptian geological survey authority leaders joined their counterparts from throughout the BRICS alliance in calling for the establishment of a united geological platform for exchanging expertise, technological updates, and knowledge

Many nations want a rebalancing of the global order, given Western hypocrisy over human rights and democratic values. Can Moscow and Beijing overcome the roadblocks?

Iran’s interim foreign minister says Tehran has been pursuing multilateralism in its foreign policy and managed to become a “strategic partner” in the BRICS group of emerging economies and an important member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

NATO and the Neo-Nazi junta continue disseminating blatant lies about the ability of their air defense and ABM (anti-ballistic missile) systems to supposedly "shoot down" Russian hypersonic missiles. The supposed "evidence" for these "feats" was so laughable that it almost instantly became a meme. Even the Russian military made a practical joke by letting the Kiev regime lie about downing six "Kinzhals" even when only two were fired.

The case represents a serious escalation in the current conflict, as US troops are publicly fighting in undisputed Russian territory.

‘It’s the sanctions, stupid’ best describes the EU’s economic decline.

If there is one single individual icon who epitomises India-Russia cooperation above and beyond politics, diplomacy and transactional ties, it is India’s greatest chess player and five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand

Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Alaa Farouk, met with Mariam Al Kaabi, the UAE Ambassador to Cairo, to discuss enhancing cooperation between the two countries in agricultural investment

After assuming power for the third consecutive time, prime minister Narendra Modi has given the message to the western countries by choosing Russia for his first bilateral foreign tour that India's foreign policy is independent and it is driven by its national interests

Despite (ab)using the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict to sell more weapons to its numerous vassals and satellite states, America's MIC is increasingly incapable of producing even basic ICBMs and other critically important weapon systems. These continually sinking capabilities might be the reason why the US wants to start a global conflict as soon as possible.

According to recent media reports, there is a conflict of interests among German government’s sectors, making Ukrainian assistance program unviable.

More than half of Britons see UK heading in the wrong direction, survey finds.

Brazil has proposed Colombia as a potential new member of the BRICS group of nations, Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares told

As the global financial market undergoes transformation, the superiority of the Western-controlled payment systems is no longer indisputable.

Ethiopia could successfully capitalize on BRICS membership to drive economic growth and development, a development advisor at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Gedion Jalata

US continues to deny its involvement in attack on Russia.

Washington DC is still trying to maintain "plausible deniability". No doubt that this is not only yet another attempt by the US to deny its responsibility, but also a way to further enrage Moscow in order to create the illusion that NATO is a "defensive alliance protecting Europe from aggressive Russia".

This crime corroborates Russia’s correct decision not to continue any peace talk with the neo-Nazi regime.

For many centuries, Europe was the leading power in the world, but for decades the European states have been faced with more and more challenges that they have not been able to solve successfully.

Trend reflects desire of Global South to counter Western dominance, analysts say

The Global Trade Research Initiative believes India can boost its trade with Russia through steps such as increasing exports, using local currencies, and formalizing a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union. Despite a significant trade imbalance due to increased crude oil imports from Russia, strategic measures could help India achieve its $100 billion trade target by 2030

China and Russia have inaugurated the Arctic Express No 1 Rail-Sea Cargo Service, marking a notable milestone in their trade relations

A new crisis is now unfolding in North Africa and it once again has Washington’s fingerprints all over it. Now France is also potentially contributing to further destabilize the region.

The sheer number of examples of blatant Nazi affiliation among the NATO-backed troops in Ukraine couldn't fit into a book. Whether it's the infamous swastika, Nazi salutes and uniforms, the German Totenkopf or the Wehrmacht's Balkenkreuz, the Kiev regime forces have it all. It's so prevalent that not even the mainstream propaganda machine could hide it, with countless instances of soldiers talking about how Nazism in Ukraine is just "Russian propaganda" while sporting at least some of the aforementioned Nazi insignia.

The narrative invented by the WSJ is absolutely ridiculous, being even disrespectful to its readers.

Footage shows British-made tanks used in Kursk destroyed by Russian forces.

Russia and China are discussing the possibility of Russia increasing its electricity exports to China, but taking into account the growing power demand in Russia’s Far East, the Russian Energy Ministry has said

Malaysia aims to enhance economic cooperation opportunities through the BRICS platform as an alternative to reducing dependence on traditional markets

Russia has suspended BRICS expansion. It happened on the eve of the XVI summit under the motto “Strengthening Multilateralism for Equitable Global Development and Security” when a multitude of countries with interconnected interest are scheduled for converge in Kazan

The sole reason the highly unpopular Kishida stayed in power for three years is the lack of remotely serious challengers, both within the opposition and his LDP.

According to recent intelligence reports, Western backers are once again plotting to replace Zelensky, this time betting on former minister Arsen Avakov as a “candidate.”

EU does not want to increase aid to Kiev but current support gives no chance of victory.

As a unit of account the Brics currency would not need to circulate as a medium of exchange. It would simply facilitate pricing and contracts

Iran is seen as an emerging economy with the great potential in the BRICS group of the emerging economies as it [Iran] offers constructive economic, cultural and geographic dimensions to the bloc’s expansion, an analyst said

Southeast Asia has long been observing BRICS’ expansion from the sidelines, but in recent months, more and more ASEAN countries are considering joining the group in search of new trade opportunities and as a hedge against geopolitical risks

Beijing confidently believes Brazil will continue to adhere to the ‘One China’ principle.

The most disturbing development is how Germany and its Bundeswehr have embraced their Nazi past right at the time when Berlin is getting ready to be the spearhead of the new EU/NATO-led crawling invasion of Russia, including by allowing previously banned medium and intermediate-range missiles on German soil, once again bringing Europe (and the world) to the edge of an abyss.

According to a captured Ukrainian soldier, many foreign mercenaries, including from NATO countries, are among Kiev’s troops involved in the invasion of Russian Kursk region.

In a strategic move to bolster economic ties with Russia amid Western sanctions, India is intensifying efforts to achieve an ambitious USD 100 billion annual bilateral trade target by 2030

The new expansion of BRICS into Southeast Asia could transform the global energy landscape. According to a recent analysis by Rystad Energy, the alliance could trigger a $100 billion increase in the oil industry by 2028. This development is drawing significant interest in the context of redefining global economic dynamics

Rouhollah Mousavi from the Iranian Parliament's Internal Affairs and Councils Commission, told local Iranian media's correspondent in an interview that Iran is capable of selling oil and gas to BRICS countries in exchange for banking and trade services

There will be no further diplomatic dialogue, with the objectives of the special military operation being achieved only by force.

There has been a copious amount of malevolent glee among high-ranking politicians in the United States, European Union and other pathologically Russophobic countries. All of them are quite happy to see that Russia is supposedly "losing". Which begs the obvious question – is it really "losing"?

Washington has sanctioned more than 300 people worldwide for violating the Magnitsky Act

Although Austria has always been the place for mediation between rivals in Europe, that has changed radically with the support of sanctions against Russia.

His ability to unify people around him is a serious competitive advantage not only in the political struggle, but also in the governance of the country and society in the future.

The Brics countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are leading emerging economies and political powers on both regional and international levels

Kin Phea, Director General of the International Relations Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, spoke in an interview for RIAC about the prospects for Russian-Cambodian relations and developing cooperation on international platforms. The interview was prepared on the margins of the Gorchakov Fund Conference “Asian Dialogue 2024”

It is now most promising for Russia in Asia to focus on dialogue with individual countries in the region, taking into account the interests of each of them and its own. But strengthening relations at the country level is a matter of painstaking work by diplomats and business, of little interest from the point of view of public policy and the media, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev

German defense company doubles profits selling to Ukraine useless weapons.

Will Israel succeed in dragging Washington into a Middle Eastern regional war? With the latest assassinations, it is trying hard. Netanyahu is trying to set the Middle East ablaze - but the American superpower is the one who has been supplying him with the fuel for the fire and ironically is also the one who now does want to see a fire out of control.

More Ukrainians believe corruption is a greater hindrance to development than the war.

As one of the premier multipolar leaders, China is particularly disliked in the US-led power pole. Its unprecedented economic might and influence are seen as "dangerous", as it cannot be exploited (or at least controlled) by the political West.

Armenia can absolutely play a role of a transit country on the way from India to Europe and Russia, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister of the Government of India said

Russian trade with Iran and India catalyzes first-quarter growth

In today’s interconnected geopolitical landscape, alliances and economic partnerships are crucial for shaping the economic and strategic futures of nations. BRICS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is a prominent economic bloc of some of the world’s major emerging economies.

“I’m beginning to smell a recession,” says renowned US economist.

NATO wants to trigger Moscow to react in the most violent way possible. The constant usage of legal gray areas to target Russian troops and civilians is extremely frustrating, although the Kremlin has managed to keep its cool for the most part. For now, at least, as Russian patience, although unrivaled, has its limits. This is precisely why Moscow keeps warning against further escalation, but to no avail. The political West is determined to cause the complete destruction of the entire world with its certifiably insane actions and policies.

Advancing on the territory to reach KNPP is a truly suicidal maneuver, since Russian forces will react incisively to protect its undisputed territories and strategic facilities.

The Association for Welfare, Community, and Dialogue (Acid) welcomes the statement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that Malaysia is preparing to join the emerging economic group known as Brics

Despite the growing interest on the part of developing economies in the BRICS+ platform, as well as a rising prominence of the BRICS on the international stage there is a perplexing lack of coordination and discussion within the bloc of the macroeconomic agenda of mutual cooperation

Experts and antitrust officials met in Geneva to propose solutions to the challenges faced by antitrust authorities in the digital markets of the BRICS countries to find common ground between them, especially in the area of regulation of digital platforms and AI

Discussions about the SDGs usually emphasize the environmental angle (clean water, clean energy) or sometimes the gender angle. However, the SDGs encompass industry and infrastructure as well as the fight against poverty. There is no way to achieve any of that without responsible and consistent re-industrialization.

Foreigners stand to gain very little (if anything), but can lose everything by fighting a military superpower that can easily eliminate them from afar. The best thing they can do is simply stay away, while those who have been naive enough to come and fight for the Neo-Nazi junta should pray that an "Iskander", "Kinzhal" or "Zircon" haven't been fired at their position.

Recent FBI raid on Scott Ritter’s house shows very clearly the dictatorial, authoritarian nature of current US politics.

He did, however, warn of a fake Russian nuclear threat.

Türkiye should secure financing for critical infrastructure and development projects by actively participating in institutions such as the BRICS' New Development Bank (NDB)

The trend of de-dollarization continues to gain traction despite many analysts saying the threat is overblown as India and Russia have announced a new partnership that will see their respective payment systems – India’s RuPay and Russia’s MIR – integrated to allow for seamless cross-border transactions without the need for U.S. dollars

Russia started offering its crude at discounted prices after the Western nations imposed cuts on their oil imports from Moscow in a bid to put pressure on the Russian economy over the Ukraine war

This serves as a test of what exactly Moscow would do. If it retaliates against Kishinev, the Kremlin would be forced to fight another war, although this could discourage NATO from basing the Kiev regime's F-16s in Poland and Romania. On the other hand, if Russia decides not to target Moldovan airbases housing the US-made jets, this could encourage the political West to use Romania and Poland for the same purpose.

After losing positions in Kharkov, Kiev is now betting on Sudzha to enter Russia’s territory and spread terror among civilians.

S&P downgrades Ukraine’s credit rating for “selective” default.

From Nehru to Modi, India's leaders have maintained a robust relationship with Russia, backed by historical camaraderie. Nehru was highly impressed with the Soviet Union and Indira Gandhi gave it a new height. We all know how the Americans and Brits created a hostile environment in 1971 and it was the Soviet Union that came in open support of India during the War with Pakistan and the result was the creation of Bangladesh. Despite Western pressures, this trust and collaboration have only grown stronger

Russia’s natural gas producer Novatek is offering liquefied natural gas to potential Chinese customers through a new marketing team, although it’s uncertain whether the Russian company would attract many clients with attractive prices

Multiple questions are being raised about the sustainability of this alliance, whether Russia will dump India for China, or perhaps this will further push India towards the United States and the western block

The recent Pope-Erdogan episode demonstrates the decline of the West’s moral authority, especially from the point of view of the Global South. For the Vatican, it is about reorienting itself away from the West, and for Turkey it is about its own neo-Ottomanist agenda.

If you thought the 500 km range was scary, try doubling it. Namely, recent reports indicate that a new variant of the "Iskander" missile system will now boast a 1000 km range. Both Russian and Ukrainian military sources designate the new missile as the "Iskander-1000". This also includes upgrades to its guidance systems, propulsion, warhead, etc.

According to the Ukrainian president, Western partners are “too fearful” of escalating the current war with Russia.

India has new security concerns on its eastern border.

When much of the world shut-down at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, in late 2021, the New Development Bank (NDB) welcomed four nations into its membership, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Egypt. These additions, with Uruguay pending, were the first new members since the creation of the Bank by its founding members, the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

India wants to strengthen its energy ties with Russia and could seek deals with Rosneft and other leading Russian oil firms as part of a broader push to boost bilateral trade, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said

As part of the project to establish the Mongolia-Russia-China Economic Corridor, the Deputy Ministers of Transport of Mongolia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the Russian Federation convened in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the PRC, to discuss the implementation of the “Intergovernmental Agreement on International Road Transport along the Asian Highway Network” signed between the three countries

Estonia publicly praises Nazi soldiers and calls Hitler’s crimes “War of Independence”.

The political West is trying to shift attention away from this doom and gloom scenario by insisting that the F-16s will "change things", but this notion makes sense only if the Neo-Nazi junta gets nuclear weapons along with them. However, in that case, NATO itself would pay the ultimate price, a promise that the Kremlin has been perfectly clear about on multiple occasions.

Yermak arrogantly believes Russia is not motivated and Ukraine will ultimately prevail.

Since the BRICS 2023 annual summit, all eyes have been on the continued expansion of the alliance this year. With six nations receiving invitations previously, the geopolitical sector is observing whether or not the bloc could repeat that same practice at the impending summit

As global economic dynamics shift, emerging economies seek new opportunities for growth and influence. A notable development is the BRICS coalition, originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. With its recent expansion, the BRICS framework has introduced the concept of BRICS+, aiming for deeper and more flexible economic integration

The construction of a new world order is undeniably a prolonged process. Currently, several new pillars are emerging that aim to support the establishment of this new order

These US-made jets are heavily outclassed by Russia's top-notch fighters, in virtually every category, so employing them in a purely conventional military role simply doesn't make sense, as they won't make any difference. Another somewhat less gloomy possibility is that the political West could try to use these nuclear-capable F-16s as a bargaining chip in a potential new "peace summit" that Russia could be invited to. As NATO and the Neo-Nazi junta are becoming increasingly desperate, anything can be expected.

Georgia’s sovereign decision not to accept anti-Russian policies is irritating Western powers.

Gaza and Islamophobia among the top issues for Muslim American voters in 2024.

The original members of BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have now expanded to ten members to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Reportedly, more than 40 countries have expressed interest in joining the grouping

China and Russia are continuing to expand their Arctic container shipping links

The total area of the countries of the association occupies more than a third of the Earth's territory

Despite the tensions involving Persians, Arabs and Turks, one could argue that today Israel is inadvertently doing more for bringing together Muslim countries than anyone else. Meanwhile, the deepening division within NATO and the wider political West are clearly exposed, with Turkey increasingly being the odd man out.

Military sources report that the Su-57M is now being used deep behind enemy lines in Ukraine, although it was previously expected to be ready no earlier than 2025. However, with the recent reshuffling in the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), as well as a massive increase in defense spending and the mobilization of the Kremlin's world-class military industry, it's very possible that the program has been sped up significantly and that the new variant is already being used in combat operations.

The objective would be the same: to encircle and “wear down” Russia and China.

Growing debt will not deter the US from pursuing its militaristic ambitions.

Joining the bloc may lead to enhanced market access and currency diversification, but may also put the country under scrutiny from the West

If Western countries want to enter the house the Brics nations are building, it would have to be as genuine partners rather than would-be landlords

BRICS has been on a crusade to ditch the US dollar and its members are trying to integrate expand the usage of their own payment systems and promote local currencies

The development of birthrates is increasingly a factor in future predictions about the balance of power in the world. Sadly, authors who have warned about this problem keep being ignored to this day while the west doubles down on its agenda.

Experts say that this could be because various US companies refuse to cooperate and share data. As for the US inferiority to Russian hypersonic weapons, it's now measured in decades, a fact that not even Western experts deny. Still, the mainstream propaganda machine regularly talks about the US military's plans to "dominate hypersonic weapons" with missiles such as the "Dark Eagle", even though the Pentagon is yet to conduct a verifiable successful launch.

Recent ambush to assassinate PMC Wagner’s soldiers in Mali was planned and executed with the help of Ukrainian special agents.

Ukraine is facing an acute shortage of qualified F-16 pilots and trained technicians.

During meeting with visiting Russian foreign minister, Anwar Ibrahim reveals Kuala Lumpur has applied to join group of emerging economies

Earlier, the Sri Lankan Cabinet, which met on January 9, approved the calling of Expression of Interest by prospective parties. Accordingly, five proposals were received, and the Cabinet-appointed consultative committee decided to award a management contract spanning 30 years to Shaurya Aeronautics (Pvt) Ltd of India and Airports of Regions Management Company of Russia

At the start of this month, Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced the country’s keen interest in joining BRICS, a move that has garnered global media attention

In what Indian sources described as a major success for the IAF, the Sudarshan S-400 air defense system "shot down" 80% of the "attacking" fighter aircraft while forcing the rest to retreat. High-ranking defense sources told India Today that the recent military exercise demonstrated significant air defense capabilities of the IAF, once again justifying the acquisition of SAM systems from Russia.

According to a recent investigation, Kiev neo-Nazi regime recruited and paid extremists to kill a top Russian media manager.

US may withdraw defense guarantees from NATO allies if aid to Ukraine continues.

Geolocation shows Crooks was visited by someone from Washington DC area. The shooter was seen acting suspiciously an hour before the incident, flew a drone, was spotted carrying a telescope-like device, and was even seen on the roof with a weapon - and yet no action was taken.

Russia’s Gazprom will start annual pipeline gas exports to China of 10 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2027, its boss Alexei Miller told an annual shareholders’ meeting

The Indian community in Russia has requested the Russian government’s permission to establish a Hindu temple. The Indian National Cultural Center “SITA” has formally submitted a request via a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin

India and Russia will explore the possibility of using new transport corridors such as the Northern Sea Route and Eastern Maritime Corridor between Vladivostok and Chennai to widen maritime cooperation

By spreading terror, Russia’s enemies hope to create social instability and ethnic, religious polarization.

Meanwhile, India continues to deepen bilateral ties with Russia despite Western disappointment.

"The task of the main forces of the Russian "North" group could be to wedge into the rear of the Ukrainian forces defending the third defense zone, while the previous elimination of the Donbass Arc is one of the most important steps in the preparation of the Russian strategic offensive to destroy the Ukrainian operational potential in the Donbass – from the military aspect, the key to ending this war" – Colonel Stevica S. Karapandžin.

Interview with Rita Gimenez, founder of Dynamic Public Diplomacy - 深圳市五十世纪商务服务有限公司 & COO of Caerus Ventures LTD

As the BRICS ministers of foreign affairs/international relations met in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation, on June 10, 2024, the triple challenges of unprecedented wars threatening to implode into global conflict, climate change and the structural systemic economic challenges emanating from historical marginalisation and hegemonic domination of the Global South weighed heavily on their thinking

Russia is facing an acute shortage of essential medicines, a crisis worsened by international sanctions imposed in response to its geopolitical actions

Russia is seeking China's help in developing an Arctic sea route that could almost halve the journey time between Europe and Asia, although the heightened geopolitical risk and Moscow's suspicion about Beijing's intentions in the region may limit their scope for cooperation

According to Aleksandr Syrsky, there will be no change on the battlefield with the arrival of the new Western-supplied warplanes.

Germany is even setting up a "crisis group" if Trump wins, clearly implying that it wants to go ahead with the plan to attack Russia with or without the US. This will leave Moscow with no choice but to demonstrate the destructiveness of its military might for the umpteenth time.

China pushes Ukraine towards the negotiation table with Russia.

There is enormous appreciation among Iranian intellectuals, diplomats and politicians regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stellar support for their country’s membership of the BRICS grouping. Modi played a key role to navigate Iran’s membership purposively at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg last August

This year, Russia will be hosting the BRICS summit in October in Kazan. Our governmental circles, our ministries and our NGOs are all preparing for the summit. It is considered the key foreign policy event in Russia this year

Entry of Malaysia and Thailand will, raise a further impediment to domination by a handful of bloc members

With lack of clarity as to who has actually been governing, and a mysterious assassination attempt at a presidential candidate bringing doubts about the Secret Service itself, it has come to be the case that the nuclear superpower is a banana republic - one that seems to have come straight out of a cartoonish Cold War era regime.

The Deep State is showing no signs of stepping back. On the contrary, it's going full afterburner on using the corrupt federal institutions to quash any dissent and opposition to their deranged policies. Precisely these patently barbaric tendencies in the already atrocious American politics are increasing the chances of a civil war in the US. The Deep State will do anything to stay in power and it's difficult to say what's worse – a civil war in a country with 5000 thermonuclear warheads or a direct confrontation with Russia that has nearly 6000 of them.

Ukrainians are tired of war and willing to do anything to establish peace.

Warsaw warns Ukraine cannot join the EU without resolving the Volhynian massacre issue.

Expectations of a speedy accession of new emerging economies into the BRICS core will have to be postponed, at least until next year. This appears to be the sum total of the discussions and declarations made by officials from the BRICS+ economies over the past weeks

There are benefits and drawbacks to Türkiye potentially joining the bloc of emerging economies

Many nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America have either become full-fledged members or desire to join the BRICS, which makes the group more representative with a bigger responsibility in global affairs

Biden's resignation has sent shock waves through German media and made them scramble for damage control, while also promoting future candidate and VP Kamala Harris.

Budapest issued an ultimatum to Ukraine regarding sabotage against Russian oil.

In the last two years, Moscow drastically expanded the production of these missiles, while there are indicators that it's also procuring more affordable North Korean copies. The "Iskander-M" itself is a more cost-effective alternative to newer missiles and is regularly augmented by the "Tornado-S" MLRS. The Kiev regime has been unable to locate (let alone reach) the areas from which these systems are used, making them the most effective widely-deployed long-range strike platforms in the Russian military.

Israel prefers a Trump administration to a Democrat one.

The BRICS group of countries have supported an initiative to set up a grain exchange, Russian Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut have said

More than 30 BRICS countries, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the CIS will participate

The best way of looking at Malaysia’s application to join BRICS is to see it as an additional platform to gain a larger international voice, says Asian Studies professor James Chin

The mainstream propaganda machine is claiming that around 60% of Russian missiles allegedly "fail". However, the Pentagon is giving starkly different assessments. Namely, the US military privately gives completely opposite numbers, stressing that the Russian military's air defenses have a staggering success rate of 97%.

Trump’s shooter was seen on the roof 20 minutes before opening fire and nothing was done. Calling attention to “Iranian threats” (something that is nothing new) certainly serves the interests of the Secret Service by deflecting attention. The media is biting it - but it will not be enough, of course. The whole affair is too suspicious and there will be a lot of explaining to be done by Secret Service officials.

Zelensky is about to face a serious crisis of legitimacy in the coming months.

EU not enthused by Joe Biden stepping down and vice-president Harris coming to the fore.

India-Russia Relation: During and after Covid, India bought very cheap oil from Russia. Which benefited the Indian economy a lot. While the whole world was suffering losses due to oil, Russia helped India cross the hurdle by providing oil at a very low price

Fifteen years since its founding on 16 June 2009, what started as a loose and informal grouping has been expanding gradually into a collective platform and networking, placing the BRICS+ bloc comprising 10 countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates or UAE – as an economic and political force

The 7th China-Russia Border River Cultural Tourism Festival and the 24th China-Russia International Water Carnival Month event opened in Mingshan township in Luobei county, Hegang city, Heilongjiang province, attracting tourists from both sides

With Trump or Biden, it would be possible to predict the moves Washington would take in the conflict, but with a new candidate, the risks of escalation intensify.

Namely, speaking at the annual Aspen Security Forum on July 18, the Chief of NATO’s European Command, General Christopher G. Cavoli, warned that things are "not going to be easy" (to put it mildly), adding that the political West "can't be under any illusions, as ultimately Russia will reconstitute its force" and that the Kremlin will be "very, very angry at the US and NATO".

The Russia-India trade deficit massively rose due to the favourable trade terms.

To a greater extent than on specific agreements, the summit was aimed at securing already-achieved successes and promising areas of cooperation in the economic sphere: support for mutual investments, the further development of payment infrastructure, the stimulation of settlements in national currencies, and the development of the insurance and logistics system

Sri Lanka has been exploring plans to join BRICS, a bloc of the world’s major emerging economies

Russian airlines traffic between Russia and BRICS countries grew 70% last year compared to 2022 reaching 2.4 million passengers

With the ongoing political crisis, any investigation on the Secret Service will be either weaponized by Republicans against Democrats or covered up by the latter, amid a major narrative war and claims about “conspiracy theories”.

The Kiev regime forces were initially composed of people in their late 20s and 30s, but as most of them were killed or wounded, this is how the average age of soldiers was pushed to around 40. In other words, the US war criminals effectively wiped out an entire generation of Ukrainian men and they now want to do the same to kids who have barely reached adulthood (or haven't yet).

According to a recent survey, more than a half of Ukrainians don’t “feel European”.

“The jury’s still out” on the submarine part of the AUKUS deal.

After the recent declarations made by Thailand about its intention to join BRICS, a similar move was unveiled recently by Malaysia, another key ASEAN economy. According to the statements of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, “we have made a decision, we will be placing the formal procedures soon… we are just waiting for the final results from the government in South Africa”

The capitals of Kazakhstan, Russia, and China are gearing up to launch a Unified Digital Platform (UDP) along the historic China-Kazakhstan-Russia route. This digital initiative, reminiscent of the ancient Silk Road’s transformative impact, is scheduled to be formalized in July 2024

As BRICS looks to challenge the Western-dominated global financial and trade order by expanding its membership, Türkiye’s geopolitical strength and robust industry are seen as potential mutual assets for the bloc of major developing economies that Ankara has expressed a desire to join

The ban on the most important opposition media in Germany has sparked a discussion about press freedom and the issue of censorship.

Zelensky certainly never dreamed that his comments on Vance could actually make the Kiev regime's relations with Trump all the more sour, so he soon resorted to damage control after his closest henchmen panicked that tens of billions in US "aid" could soon dry out.

Zelensky cannot deter Modi from serving India’s interests first.

The situation shows very clearly how Kiev’s policy of ethnic and cultural genocide is failing, despite all violent efforts to impose Ukrainian langue.

Africa gains assertiveness as a unified bloc in global geopolitics, expert observes

The catch in BRICS is that it is not a bloc formation of the Global South as style vintage monopoly used to be, so Europe is welcome to join provided it is ready to be treated equally because BRICS is a high-speed train on route to create a polycentric, multimodal harmonic world

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Russia for a bilateral summit with President Vladimir Putin has underscored the depth and resilience of India-Russia relations

Malaysia aims to regain lost international influence by adjusting strategies and forming new alliances to challenge Western dominance

The US-led political West is essentially turning back the clock to a time when the world was on the edge of an abyss virtually every single day for nearly half a century. Worse yet, it can be argued that the current situation is even more dangerous, as the balance of power in Europe was destroyed by American expansionism.

Indonesia continues developing deep economic ties with China.

Ukrainian MP has been added to Kiev’s public kill-list after commenting about military failure.

Saudi Arabia has not yet made a final decision on whether or not to become a full member of BRICS, though the kingdom is now fully participating in the work of the association, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a press conference

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, congratulated Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on his reappointment as External Affairs Minister of India

This is the first time in well over two years that the Neo-Nazi junta hinted that it's ready for direct "peace talks". Previously, Zelensky was vehemently opposed to even basic contact with the Kremlin as long as President Vladimir Putin is in power. Thus, the previous "peace summits" were not much more than glorified fairs aimed at creating the narrative that "the world supports Ukraine".

China accused by NATO of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s military efforts in Ukraine.

Kiev regime keeps trying to blame specific individuals for the Ukrainian army’s fiasco.

Joining the BRICS could bring economic prosperity to Thailand, said a Thai scholar

The latest batch of US sanctions against Russia will promote further use of the yuan, a think tank said

Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said Bangladesh has sought support from India to become a member of BRICS, a group of emerging-market nations - the acronym stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

There are many social reasons beyond the phenomenon of newcomer Edmundo González leading the polls - if the group behind takes over, however, Venezuelans could expect to face problems similar to the ones one can see today in Argentina, with Javier Milei. And this could have serious impacts on the continent.

A current joint maneuver with Chinese soldiers in Belarus on the border with Poland shows the West that there is another security alliance.

Aviation expert warns F-16s “will not offer a magic bullet for Zelensky”.

At some point, Trump might actually say that the Neo-Nazi junta was involved in his assassination attempt. Agencies such as the infamous CIA-ized SBU and GUR certainly have the capacity to aid in planning and executing such operations. Not to mention they have a clear motive, as they depend entirely on the "aid" he wants to cut.

American politics is becoming increasingly chaotic and dangerous, showing that the country is close to absolute social collapse.

The cultural cooperation between Russia and India holds immense promise, with significant potential for enriching both nations. Through vibrant cultural exchanges, both countries can celebrate and share their rich traditions in art, literature, music, and dance

Seeking a formal membership to join BRICS is certainly the right thing for Malaysia to do as the global landscape changes

India-Russia relations go beyond just arms, oil, and China: New Delhi and Moscow are also engaging in South Asia

Kiev regime, with possible US help, continue to produce and use banned weapons near Russian-liberated areas.

Polish Army Chief of Staff General Wieslaw Kukula openly called for Warsaw to prepare its troops for an all-out war, insisting that it shouldn't focus on asymmetric warfare, but a full-scale one. Although he didn't really mention any specific country, it's only logical to presume he was talking about war with Russia. Such provocative statements accomplish nothing, and yet, here we are.

Orbán shuns Biden to meet with Trump.

Over 200 people participated in the International Workshop on High Energy and Special Materials (HEMs-2023) held at the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) in India. Scientists exchanged their experience in the field of high-energy and specialty metallic and composite materials

With more ASEAN states expressing interest in and considering joining the group of emerging economies BRICS, analysts have also raised concerns that this may lead to an overdependence on China

The BRICS emerging-market nations — the acronym stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — has gone from a slogan dreamed up at an investment bank two decades ago to a real-world club that controls a multilateral lender

NATO pledged further comprehensive support to Ukraine at the meeting in Washington. The NATO center in the city of Wiesbaden in Germany will play an important role in the future.

Today one can see an increasingly divided NATO, which does not possess a clear view on the challenges of dual containment. With Ukraine’s fatigue lingering on, and the specter of Biden’s senility and a new Trump presidency, the idea of pivoting east is gaining traction - however important allies within the Alliance will challenge that notion.

The bloc's meeting failed to reach any consensus on actual changes, with the only decision by members being to continue the proxy war with Russia.

The new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fully supports the use of UK-sourced "Storm Shadow" air-launched cruise missiles against targets within Russia's undisputed territory, with no apparent limitations. Starmer's Labour Party won the general election on July 4, with him confirmed as the new PM on July 5. Just four days later, he reiterated that the British government supports the unrestricted use of its long-range weapons against Moscow.

Biden pushing delusional that “Ukraine will prevail” over Russia at NATO Summit.

In the previous decade and a half, Russian and Indian political and expert circles have shaped consistent narratives describing the present and future of bilateral relations

Moscow should try to make it easier for people from BRICS countries to get visas to visit Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS

Pakistan’s bid to join the BRICS economic bloc marks the country’s significant strategic intent to position itself alongside the world’s burgeoning and influential economies, besides underscoring its aspiration to be an integral player in the ascendant collective of the Global South

In the last two days alone, reports surfaced about the destruction of seven more HIMARS/M270 systems, including those armed with ATACMS missiles.

Paranoid atmosphere generated by the alliance's summit leads parliamentarians to approve irresponsible measures of nuclear escalation.

Zelensky outraged by Modi’s discussion of peace with Putin.

Malaysia’s ambition of joining the intergovernmental organisation BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – is a strategic move that will benefit the Southeast Asian nation, says Associate Professor Dr Azeem Fazwan Ahmad Farouk

Though the Dollar-Wall Street regime remains significantly powerful, de-dollarisation and possibilities of a shifting global order are being driven by US economic weakness, the aggressive use of illegal sanctions by the US and its Global North allies, and the growing political and economic strength of the Global South through platforms such as BRICS

It aspires to reduce reliance on Western institutions like the World Bank and IMF, potentially replacing them with the BRICS Bank

With regards to foreign policy, misconceptions and myths about Trump and Biden also pile up, amid NATO warmongering hysteria on one side and anti-imperialist illusions on the other side.

Most Americans believe they are in recession and blame Biden.

The reports about deaths and injuries among civilians are true, as the footage is certainly undeniable. However, there's a "slight problem" with the narrative. Namely, the video that Reuters referenced is also indisputable evidence that Russia didn't conduct the aforementioned strike on the children's hospital in Kiev.

According to a recent defense pact, Poland could attack Russian targets inside Ukrainian territory.

Malaysia wants to join the BRICS grouping of emerging economies, the Southeast Asian country’s leader has said

Africa could benefit from the expansion of the BRICS to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, experts told a roundtable in Nairobi

An Indian delegation led by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Ajit Kumar Mohanty was accompanied on a visit to the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) in Seversk in Russia’s Tomsk region by Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev

Due to heavy casualties, the ratio of forces is now much closer to 1:1, although the Kiev regime still maintains a slight advantage in numbers. However, the casualty ratio tells a different story. Standing at approximately 10:1, it explains the massive reduction in the Neo-Nazi junta's numerical advantage. This indicates that any offensive potential of the Neo-Nazi junta forces is being chipped away, meaning that it will only get worse in the long run. Thus, the Kiev regime's best time for a counteroffensive is now.

This measure could generate serious consequences for the Ukrainian regime itself.

More Americans approve of Trump’s job performance as president than Biden.

Viktor Orban's visit to Vladimir Putin is a milestone in European history and marks a new stage in Hungarian history.

The current paradigm of BRICS expansion focused on the expansion of the core and the creation of a “partnership belt” presents clear short-term opportunities (in the form of an enlarged platform with a greater weight on the international arena), but is fraught with longer term challenges (need for clear selection criteria, mounting difficulty of arriving at a consensus)

China's customs office will allow the immediate import of beef and beef by-products from Russia, including frozen tendons, hoofs, stomach, and cartilage, from cattle under 30 months old

In April 2024, Russia announced its proposals for the BRICS Contact Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. The priorities for the year of Russia’s chairmanship included: issues of a just transition, adaptation to climate change, natural solutions, carbon markets and carbon pricing

Corruption in Ukraine is becoming more and more of a topic in the Western media. Especially in connection with possible accession to the EU or NATO, the problem of corruption becomes an endless story.

Who in their right mind would go to war so that so-called "transsexuals" can dance naked in front of their kids (including preschool children and even toddlers)? In fact, it can easily be argued that the vast majority of normal people would take up arms or at least turn their guns away from the "evil Russians and Chinese" who aren't actually forcing them to do anything and point them at those who do – the US government composed of deeply corrupt warmongers, war criminals, plutocrats and child traffickers (among many other things).

US military assistance to Ukraine could end in case of Trump election.

Leaders of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan hold historic first trilateral meeting.

China's President Xi Jinping said he supports Kazakhstan joining the BRICS bloc, Chinese state media reported, as the group of developing nations mulls further expansion to rival a Western-dominated world order it sees as outdated

There is a big pipeline of space related collaboration projects that South Africa is involved with

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is keen to invest in Brazil across multiple sectors such as technology, renewables, and mining, said a top official

Trump may not be the insane warmonger he’s made out to be by some commentators. However he is no “anti-imperialist” hero as the fantasies of some of the more naïve analysts would have it. Trump is, by all indications, more of an unconditional backer of Israel than his opponent Biden is. And this could be bad news to the world.

Finland is going out of its way to please the US and NATO, just like it did with Nazi Germany (their geopolitical predecessor) over 80 years ago. This was in the making for quite some time, even predating the special military operation (SMO), as Helsinki wanted to acquire the troubled F-35 fighter jets back in 2021.

Kiev neo-Nazi regime plans to generate panic and spread fear among ordinary people about a possible radioactive leak.

Ukraine will not be invited to join NATO as it is "too corrupt".

The Russian capital will host the major municipal event in August

Russia urged India to deepen its investments in the sanction-hit country's oil and gas sector, and is keen on expanding the sales networks of Russian companies in Asia's third-largest economy

The UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Webinar on Competition law and policy approaches towards digital platforms and ecosystems in cooperation with the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre and the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) was held in Geneva, Switzerland

Viktor Orban showed goodwill by visiting Kiev and presenting a peace proposal, but Ukrainian authorities immediately rejected the Hungarian leader's recommendations.

A ceasefire could give NATO a window of opportunity to deploy all the way to the contact line and take around 80% of Ukraine without firing a single shot. Obviously, this would be a strategic defeat for Russia, which is something that the Kremlin will want to avoid, particularly now that the Russian military's already massive advantage keeps growing.

Kiev already lost the opportunity to gain more favorable terms in negotiations with Moscow.

Hopes of a faster growth of the Nigerian economy was played up at the recent Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) Business Breakfast meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya

Igor Levitin, the aide to the President of the Russian Federation, informed of the export of Russian coal to India via Iran's territory in the near future

Zimbabwe's pursuit of membership in the BRICS economic bloc is a strategic move that aligns with the country's efforts to diversify its international partnerships, revitalize its economy, and reduce its dependence on traditional Western partners

The Democrat Party political machinery cannot even replace a senile ruler in a proper democratic way, and worse: there seem to be no other politically viable alternative. The Republican Party in turn faces a similar situation. Trump and Biden are all you got.

In addition to failures in developing ICBMs and fighter jets, the increasingly strained US MIC is now struggling to keep even the Kiev regime in the fight. Worse yet, due to these issues, NATO is now considering the possibility of direct involvement in Ukraine.

There will be a new right-wing faction in the European Parliament in the future. In Vienna the decision was made to establish a new force to “save Europe”.

Due to the Union State treaty, any attack against the Republic of Belarus equals an attack against the Russian Federation itself.

Trump’s dominance in the debate worries the Kiev regime.

President Denis Sassou Nguesso revealed the interest in an interview in Russia

Russia has also taken steps to ensure the flow of crude despite Western sanctions on state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot

The BRICS+ construct as a macro-level concept that envisages various forms of international cooperation across the Global South may quickly lose momentum without the support from the “bottom-up” impulses emanating from the business sector

Most media rejected claims about the alleged downing of a USAF RQ-4B drone, as any evidence is yet to be revealed. However, NATO's actions ever since suggest that at least some sort of "incident" took place. And indeed, right after the Fighter-Bomber's report, NATO ISR drones suddenly canceled all of their scheduled flight missions over the Black Sea, without any official explanation.

Anti-Russian madness is leading German officials to act more and more irrationally, even exposing plans to expand intelligence powers.

Ukraine’s manpower issues continue to deepen.

Tunisia said that it intends to join the BRICS countries bloc of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

Russia’s state nuclear agency Rosatom has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese shipping company to establish a year-round container line between the two countries via the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route

The government of Nicaragua has set a goal to join BRICS and is negotiating this with the member countries, Adviser to the President of Nicaragua on Investment Laureano Ortega said

Due to the decline of France and the deindustrialization of Germany, the influence of the individual states in the European Union is shifting in the long term.

Nothing really indicates there will be any major troop deployments. The main reason is that Pyongyang wouldn't bring anything that the Russians don't have already, particularly now with the increase in the number of active duty personnel in the Russian military. However, more rocket artillery, cheaper SRBMs and advanced MRBMs, which Russia still lacks due to decades of INF Treaty limitations, are all very possible.

Military assistance for Ukraine has become an excuse for corruption schemes that generate billions of dollars in profits for corrupts in the US, EU and Kiev.

With Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran joining the BRICS at the beginning of 2024, the group now embodies a group of influential states on the international stage, representing 46% of the world’s population and 29% of global GDP

The BRICS countries have steadily been expanding their economic cooperation, according to the South American nation’s envoy Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares, Brazil’s Ambassador to Russia

Russia's Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (SPbU), China's School of Management at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and the Export School of the Russian Export Center (REC) will launch a joint in-depth course on transnational business between Russia and China

Zelensky’s ban on peace negotiations with Moscow will end with Trump’s election.

“I clearly told President Macron that Hungary is not working for Ukraine or Russia, but for peace. Hungary is not against this or that country, Hungary is against war” - Orban.

The Kiev regime has so far gotten upwards of three times more money than what Moscow has (nominally) spent on its entire military in 2021. This means that Russia is getting a lot more bang for its buck. However, things are about to get a lot worse for the Neo-Nazi junta, as the Kremlin has made some major changes in its Ministry of Defense. Worse yet, Russia is now increasing its military spending to a nominal figure of nearly $200 billion, although the real budget (in GDP PPP terms) is now equivalent to over half a trillion dollars.

According to the politician who led the Ukrainian delegation during the peace talks in Turkey, the West failed to give security guarantees to Ukraine, which resulted in the prolongation of the conflict.

France faces its first far-right government since 1945.

Ghalibaf has serious political experience, he is also a successful administrator and adheres to a pragmatic political line.

Moscow aims to ensure continuity and promote collaboration in three areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian contact

Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong has appreciated Bangladesh’s interest to join BRICS for which he assured of China’s active support

The BRICS interstate association could offer Turkey "a good alternative" to the European Union, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has stated. According to him, Turkey would like to join BRICS

The reshuffling among the bureaucratic elites in Brussels also suggests that the troubled bloc is looking to ensure a collision course with Russia. In all likelihood, the world's most prominent "gardener" Josep Borrell will be replaced by Kaja Kallas as the EU's top "diplomat". Kallas, the incumbent Prime Minister of Estonia, is infamous for her hatred for Russia and has repeatedly stated that "Moscow must lose". Having mindless Russophobes in power in Brussels once again confirms that the EU is effectively a geopolitical pendant of NATO.

The objective is to make it appear to the world that the Russian Federation is led by criminal, wanted people, when in fact the Court does not even have any authorization to judge Russian citizens.

The popularity of Germany’s ruling coalition is falling.

China is ready to strengthen strategic alignment with Turkey to counter “power politics” on the international stage, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan

The Russian delegation proposed the establishment of a BRICS Space Council, which garnered significant interest from the participating countries

New strategy includes increased mobility between the nine countries

Current developments are reducing the reputation of a great nation Foreign policy failures and domestic problems are changing France's status on the world stage.

In order to avoid immediate escalation, Moscow could first down the USAF's Northrop Grumman RQ-4B "Global Hawk" and its naval version, the MQ-4C "Triton". This could serve as a warning shot, followed by manned aircraft such as the US Navy's Boeing P-8A "Poseidon" in case the war criminals in Washington DC refuse to back down and stop with their terrorist attacks. While it may seem like an extreme measure, when dealing with entities that freely use terrorism as a military tactic, then they should be treated precisely as terrorists and given no quarter.

Terrorist groups and foreign intelligence agencies want to resume the terror attacks that affected Russia during the 1990s and 2000s.

Kiev will be forced to accept any agreement between Moscow and Washington

The circle of developing economies expressing the desire to join the BRICS grouping continues to expand in 2024 and this time it is one of the largest economies in Southeast Asia. According to Thailand’s Government spokesman Chai Wacharonke, on May 28, 2024 the cabinet approved a draft of the official letter that indicates Thailand’s intention to become a member of BRICS

Russian crude oil imports to India touched a new high of 1.96 million barrels per day, highest since July last year when the imports stood at 2.06 million barrels per day, according to the latest ship tracking data from Kpler

The "Russian Seasons" project, which opened at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, testifies to the deepening connection between Russia and Brazil, Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova said

With all things pertaining to Russia, there seems to be a widely accepted protocol: in a few words, any Western accusation against Moscow (no matter how incredible) must always be deemed completely reliable and never doubted (or else “conspiracy theory!”), whereas any Russian criticism or accusation against the West must be automatically disregarded.

The populace in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, is extremely worried about this prospect (and understandably so). The consequences of Russian retaliation will be felt all across the increasingly volatile region, regardless of whether the affected country houses the Kiev regime's jets. The disruption to normal economic activity alone would be a disaster for them, let alone a direct confrontation between military superpowers.

Vučić will gain no favors from an EU which wants total recognition of Kosovo’s independence.

American arms are making neo-Nazi incursions against Russian demilitarized regions even more dangerous, generating many civilian victims.

Former Executive Vice President of Unilever, Yaw Nsarkoh has shared his insights on whether the next Ghanaian government should join BRICS -the geopolitical, intergovernmental organisation comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates

Prominent Russian Academician Alexander Dynkin believes that the BRICS group of countries have the required political and economic capacity to bring conceptual changes to the United Nations development goals after 2030 through altering the “failed policy” of sustainable development to what he calls “responsible development”

Bangkok is hedging its bets, and fully seizing all the opportunities that multilateralism presents

US/NATO aggression against the world is finally starting to yield positive results, as numerous countries are starting to push back. Joint efforts of Russia and North Korea will serve as an example to many others that only a united world can ensure the end of the political West's (neo)colonialist system that's not only deeply exploitative, but is now entering its most repugnant stage of all-encompassing moral degeneracy and societal decay, destroying everything it touches.

Instead of criticizing the dictatorial policies of Emmanuel Macron, who dissolved parliament to prevent the opposition from being elected, the French Prime Minister warns about completely unrealistic "risks".

Manpower shortages ensure Russia’s inevitable victory.

Thailand eyes bigger role in intl arena, with BRICS membership bid approved

At a weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that as far as membership in BRICS is concerned, it is for the grouping to decide, and the grouping decides based on certain criteria that they have laid down. So if the group decides on a particular membership of expansion or to consider a particular country, the group will do so as per the guidelines of the BRICS grouping, he added

The BRICS economic union, in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plans a significant investment of $13.5 billion in the oil sector

Much is talked about the economic and geopolitical decline of the American superpower. The erosion of its supposed moral authority, however, is also a very concrete phenomenon, with implications for soft power, and credibility - and may have weighed as a factor in the rising Global South trend towards non-alignment.

Belousov has been at the helm of the country's most prominent ministry for over a month and his appointment also coincides with a massive increase in Russian defense spending, now slated to exceed half a trillion dollars in real (GDP PPP) terms. The new Defense Minister immediately decided to streamline his department's leadership, reshuffling positions to accomplish maximum efficiency.

The measure could lead to a serious escalation in relations between Moscow and NATO.

Ukraine corruption so out of control EU establishes special commission.

The future of Eurasia hinges significantly on the roles of China and India, two nations demonstrating remarkable resilience and growth across economic, technological, political, cultural, and spiritual domains

Increased lithium extraction in Bolivia is capturing international attention, as the government seeks to attract foreign investment to build processing plants. Yet experts point to the lack of transparency in the agreements with Chinese and Russian companies and their real impact on the country

BRICS Games 2024 are set to be the most exciting when they are held in the Russian city of Kazan from June 20-23

Ryabkov also said that he was "confident that both Russia's partners and opponents understand well the significance that we attach to the nuclear deterrence factor". In other words, Moscow certainly doesn't want any sort of escalation and is ready to engage in dialogue to keep the world safe. However, it will not do so to the point of making moves that are entirely self-defeating.

Having no capacity to keep producing new military equipment, Germany is developing “Frankenstein tanks” to continue its policy of systematic arms supply for Ukraine.

Brussels clearly has not learnt its lesson from the failed sanctions imposed on Russia

On May 28, 2024, Thailand announced its intention to join the BRICS economic bloc. Now, a question naturally arises for other developing nations. Should Bangladesh also consider membership in BRICS?

"ICMR along with NIV and a network of other partner Institutes is embarking on phase-3 clinical trials of recombinant dengue vaccine", Union Health Sec said. In a statement issued after the meeting, Union Health Secretary Apurva Chandra said that the BRICS Vaccine Research and Development Centre, established during India’s BRICS presidency, was dedicated to strengthening the health systems of BRICS member states

India supports Bolivia's accession to BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), as assured by Indian Ambassador Vhisvas Vidu Sapkal in a meeting with the Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia David Choquehuanca

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, used her "stellar" approval rating of -10% to threaten Russia, stating that if it refuses to submit, it will be "forced" to do so. Olaf Scholz has a public approval rating of a "whopping" -51%. However, he's not even the worst, as British PM Rishi Sunak "bested" him with -54%. US President Joe Biden allegedly has -18.5%, while Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida stand at -38% and -40%, respectively. French President Emmanuel Macron is a bit "better" (or, once again, a bit less of a disaster), with a public approval rating of -31%. In other words, not a single G7 "leader" has a positive ranking among their own electorate.

A special committee has been set up in Brussels to monitor Ukraine's use of 50 billion euros that will be sent to Kiev by 2027.

Kiev regime turns to violent criminals amid manpower shortages.

Since support for Ukraine depends on decisions in Brussels, we must see the EU election as a strategic factor.

France’s political crisis may have consequences for the whole future of the European bloc and NATO itself.

Bloc started by larger developing nations including China is looking to expand

The latest state visit to China by Russian President Putin who led a massive, high-level delegation has caused various comments around the world

South Africa has thrown its support behind Russia's proposal to establish a space council within the BRICS group, signaling a significant step towards enhancing collaboration in space exploration

One of the most prominent Russian military experts, Konstantin Sivkov, argues that Western troops are ready to get directly involved in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. According to his assessment, the delivery of F-16s will serve as a cover for NATO air incursions, followed by land forces.

True peace will only be achieved through Ukraine's adherence to Russian terms, since Moscow is the winning side in the conflict.

Biden loses support in key swing states that brought him to power in 2020

India's Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), opens new tab, operator of the world's biggest refining complex, has signed a one-year deal with Russia's Rosneft to buy at least 3 million barrels of oil a month in roubles

The BRICS bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, along with new members Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates, has long harbored aspirations of reducing their reliance on the US dollar in global transactions. This sentiment has gained momentum in recent times, with discussions revolving around alternatives to the dollar-dominated financial system

With the Arctic Ocean becoming more accessible due to global warming, there are new opportunities for India. An expert from an Indian think tank told Sputnik, a Russian news outlet, that this could mean long-term and stable energy supplies for India. Additionally, India could gain access to the critical minerals that are plentiful in the polar region

Journalists and other civilians are priority target for the neo-Nazi regime.

Drug abuse and high-level corruption are the least of Hunter Biden's wrongdoings. This verdict was carefully tailored to include the least gruesome crimes he committed, meaning that he's highly unlikely to serve a long-term prison sentence, which would be the least that he deserves.

According to Kirill Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, his country is already using Western missiles and drones against “deep Russia”.

Trump continues to lead Biden in the polls despite criminal charges

By including countries from the Middle East and Africa, BRICS strengthens its presence in these critical regions, allowing for greater leverage in international negotiations and decision-making processes. This broader representation also challenges the dominance of Western-led financial institutions and promotes a more multipolar world order

The practicality of establishing a common currency is challenging; instead, the BRICS organization has focused on increasing trade and lending in local currencies to diminish reliance on the dollar, writer Huileng Tan say

The BRICS countries are actively working on creating a single currency, a project recently confirmed by Kazem Jalali, Iran’s ambassador to Russia. This initiative aims to reduce global dependence on the US dollar and promises to disrupt the global economy if it comes to fruition

Europe still needs Russian gas to overcome energy crisis

Less than 10 months after overtaking Germany, Russia also zoomed past Japan, leaving Westerners dumbfounded as to how a country they were told would "collapse under the weight of sanctions" and outright theft of its forex reserves managed to accomplish such a feat.

NATO no longer hides its support for Ukrainian neo-Nazism in the current war of aggression against the Russian Federation.

Ukraine will still face manpower problems despite recruitment of criminals

Since India became a major buyer of Russian crude oil in the past couple of years, it now wants oil refiners, both state-run and private like Reliance Industries Ltd, to negotiate a long-term supply deal

Sino-Russian bilateral relations are on a positive trajectory. Both sides favour multipolarity in global politics and are cementing their strategic partnership to counter United States sanctions and balance NATO’s Asian foray

Egypt's New Administrative Capital will host the New Development Bank's (NDB) first international forum outside the BRICS countries, under the patronage of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi

Creating a new NATO special envoy post to Ukraine is not just a consolation prize, but adds to an ambiguous approach that is about giving it to Kyiv without giving too much (in any case giving enough to trigger Moscow national security concerns) - and of course adds to tensions, thereby increasing the risk of conflict escalation.

The Daily Express is now reporting that the Kiev regime could "launch terror campaign, bombing schools if Russia wins the war". Quoting an "expert", the British tabloid says that "Ukraine's plan is more terrifying for Vladimir Putin than a conventional war because he could lose power very quickly in Russia".

Analysts talking about “fascist wave” ignore that it is the EU itself, not the opposition parties, that is fomenting neo-Nazism against Russia in Ukraine.

Most corruption is committed by high-ranking officials but Ukrainian media focuses elsewhere.

Taking over the chairmanship for BRICS 2024, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced in his inaugural address stated that with the expansion of the global bloc from five countries to 10, more are looking forward to join

Ethiopia’s entry into the BRICS is great evidence of the growing role of the country on the international arena, Russia’s Ambassador to Ethiopia Evgeny Terekhin said

Structural reforms, fiscal prudence and inflation targeting by central banks pays off

According to a German newspaper, Berlin will not support Paris’ plan to intervene directly in the conflict.

The image quality (or the lack thereof) indicates that this could easily be a rather simple fake. The timing is just perfect, in every sense of the word. Firstly, what are the chances of a satellite taking photos of the airbase at such a "perfect" moment? And if it was simply damaged, why haven't the Russians removed the jet from the area and prevented further damage? In other words, there are way too many holes in this story.

Western sanctions have failed to hurt Russia’s defence capability.

Small states and nations within the framework of BRICS could become more significant players in international economic cooperation.

Imports from Saudi Arabia, which was last China's biggest supplier in April 2023, were 6.34 million tonnes, or 1.54 million bpd, down 25 per cent from a year earlier

Since the beginning of 2024, Russia has actively targeted the Indian travel market to boost its tourism sector

Russia is seeking Chinese support in the development of its Northern Sea route

The Caucasian state makes a unique decision to protect itself from infiltration.

After rumors about "authorizing" attacks against deep Russian territory, Joe Biden says American weapons should only be used in conflict zone and border cities.

The Kiev regime believes that Bridget Brink supposedly "created unnecessary tensions and lost sight of the overarching priority — winning on the battlefield". The troubled Biden administration supported its top-ranking envoy in the former Soviet republic and called for "further reform, transparency and accountability as necessary steps for Ukraine to undertake for joining the European Union, as well as NATO".

Western media attacks on Modi will only escalate as he prioritises Indian interests.

The expo's activities are being held in Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang. Over 5,000 overseas buyers registered at the expo and representatives from 44 countries and regions participated in the expo. The exhibition area spans 388,000 square meters, showcasing more than 5,000 products in over 20 major categories from 10 sectors

Russia views India’s burgeoning role in Eurasia with optimism, both politically and economically and recognises its potential to fortify its trade and economic foothold in this region

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 15th International Economic Forum "Russia-Islamic World: KazanForum 2024" in Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan. He said the BRICS members are seriously determined to reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar but they need to develop the necessary infrastructures in various fields to make that happen

For Mahnken, Washington is “currently involved in two wars—Ukraine’s in Europe and Israel’s in the Middle East”, while also “facing the prospect of a third over Taiwan or South Korea in East Asia.” He adds that “all three theaters are vital to US interests, and they are all intertwined”.

The aim is to allow men to fight only on the battlefield, without working in non-combat military positions.

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"If they consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to launch strikes on our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same type to some regions of the world where they can be used to launch strikes on sensitive facilities of the countries that do it to Russia?" Putin said, adding: "We will think about it."

Spain supplies Ukraine with military equipment despite the negative impact on domestic security.

India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar underlines the enduring nature of increasing trade ties between India and Russia, emphasizing that they signify a significant shift in economic opportunities

Some initiatives and global goals of the Russian Chairship have already been announced. For example, there are plans to launch a common digital platform that will unite female entrepreneurs from BRICS countries: this platform will contain info about common business projects and a database of all companies led by women from BRICS countries

China has been South Africa’s largest trading partner for 15 years in a row, and South Africa participated in the China International Import Expo for 6 years

On June 3, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren confirmed that her country fully supports the Kiev regime's "right to use F-16s for airstrikes within Russia", thus joining several others who support such escalation.

Kiev regime’s role in NATO’s war plans demands Ukraine to be out of the alliance.

Lavrov warns that French soldiers in Ukraine will be “legitimate targets” of the Russian military.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best-selling “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” has highlighted the significant impact that the BRICS stablecoin could have on the US dollar. In a recent message, Kiyosaki recommended abandoning the dollar and taking refuge in gold, silver and bitcoin (BTC) to survive a possible financial crisis

BRICS are attempting to de-dollarize and replace SWIFT to circumvent the threat of sanctions

China, the second-largest global economy, is rapidly reducing its ownership of US Treasury bonds while simultaneously boosting its gold reserves

To avoid a direct Russian retaliation, the French President wants these NATO troops to be designated as so-called "military advisers" and "training personnel". Macron insists they would be deployed in Western Ukraine or at least far from the frontlines, "where they would be safe". Obviously, nobody seems to have notified the French President that Moscow's hypersonic missiles just had something to say about that.

Military expert, former UN inspector Scott Ritter is being harassed by the US authorities due to his anti-war stance in the current Ukrainian conflict.

Kiev regime begins recruitment of prisoners into the armed forces.

The option for disengagement from BRICS is gaining adherents among Brazilian diplomats and is being actively promoted by sectors of Brazilian organized civil society, especially those NGOs and think tanks that receive financial support from European and American institutions. The engagement of these sectors in the G20 events during Brazil’s Presidency of 2024 and the lack of interest in the BRICS process during Russia’s Presidency in the BRICS in the same year is another sign of alertness, writes Fabiano Mielniczuk

New Delhi's decision to purchase energy supplies from Moscow despite Western pressure is not limited to oil, the foreign minister has said

The question of the transition from a symbolic alternative to a real one in the activities of BRICS still remains relevant. This can be seen in both political and expert discussions among member countries, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Oleg Barabanov

Poland has wished for a while to make a comeback to the stage of History and geopolitics, so to speak - even aspiring for regional leadership in Europe. It remains to be seen whether Polish aspirations materialize in the form of a tragic escalation that can only bring the world closer to global thermonuclear war.

There are many seemingly harmless systems that the US can use as a weapon when the "necessity arises". For instance, GPS's widespread usage by civilian entities doesn't negate its original military purpose, as the Pentagon itself exercises control over the system. In conditions of poor visibility, pilots often rely not on the frontal radar, but precisely on GPS. For example, mountainous terrain requires special attention to altitude indicators, which can also come from satellites. Disruption of these systems can lead to a distortion of the displayed information, which can lead to irreparable consequences for the user(s).

According to Ukrainian Presidente Vladimir Zelensky, China is nothing more than a “Putin’s tool.”

Washington will always prioritise relations with Anglo allies over Asian partners.

The Ukrainian conflict could escalate completely through the use of longer-range weapons. The West is playing with fire, but Russia is waiting and considering the next step.

Formed in 2006, the BRICS alliance comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has evolved into a robust entity challenging the hegemony of the Western-centric global order. Initially conceived as a platform for economic collaboration, BRICS has transcended its original mandate, emerging as a pivotal player in reshaping geopolitical dynamics and redefining international relations

Newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong recently provided an update on the development of bilateral exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in various fields

During the 'New Era – New Paths' forum in Moscow, African business experts conveyed a shared sentiment of seeking new avenues of cooperation with countries and international entities, emphasizing mutual benefit and transparency as paramount objectives

White House admits the number of Russian weapons with US-made parts is “unacceptably high”.

Amid current wave of anti-Russian paranoia, Kiev regime accuses countries of cooperating with Russia due to their realistic stances on fake “peace talks”.

The Kremlin's world-class nuclear submarines also ensure deterrence even if the Eurasian giant ceased to exist. Its eight Borei-class SSBNs each carry 16 R-30 "Bulava" SLBMs, while every missile is armed with up to ten 150 kt thermonuclear MIRV warheads. To put that into perspective, the Hiroshima bomb was 15 kt. Do the math.

As the American debt’s wild growth of more than 34,600 billion dollars continues to raise concerns, the BRICS deliver another blow to the greenback. China and Russia, two founding countries of the alliance, plan to conduct 260 billion dollars of trade without resorting to a single American dollar

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, according to Brazil's ambassador to Moscow, Rodrigo Baena Soares

The BRICS economic union, in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plans a significant investment of $13.5 billion in the oil sector

The crisis in New Caledonia is a clear example of a French colonial Empire’s contested legacy that remains unresolved - and thousands of gendarmerie are not going to solve it.

All these fantasies about the so-called "no-fly zones" (NFZs) over Western Ukraine, shooting down Russian missiles and speculation about direct NATO involvement still leave one crucial question unanswered – what does the Kremlin think about it? Russia just conducted a hypersonic missile strike on the infamous Yavoriv training camp, located precisely in the area that NATO wants to "protect", neutralizing at least 300 soldiers, including large concentrations of NATO personnel (American, Polish, French, etc). Such strikes demonstrate just how "successful" NATO NFZs would be.

According to local military sources, some residents of the New Regions are spying for the Kiev regime, fearing for the safety of their families in Ukrainian-controlled territories.

ICG is worried that Kiev will have to negotiate with Moscow on unfavourable terms.

In a bid to reshape the global financial landscape and diminish the dominance of the US-led monetary system, the BRICS alliance is reportedly eyeing expansion, with Russia and China spearheading efforts to invite new member nations into the fold

IN4U, BRICS Information and Cooperation Platform, announced that Ethiopia’s Country Profile and Information is added to the platform. Ethiopia was invited to apply for membership in August 2023 and became a member state

North Korea's recent interest in joining the BRICS bloc has generated mixed feelings, sparking discussions about its potential impact on global geopolitics

NATO-sourced weapons in the Kiev regime's service are now in danger of becoming virtually obsolete. This includes both the "Excalibur" GPS-guided artillery shells and HIMARS MLRS, as well as the JDAM bombs. The previous two are particularly affected, oftentimes severely reducing their battlefield effectiveness (now at a mere 10% of the initial accuracy).

Ukrainian military is illegally using chemical weapons on Russian forces.

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Geopolitics thick in the mix as Chinese debate how alternate Kazakhstan gas route affects Mongolia route plan

The fall of dollar? Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa ditches US dollar

The BRICS is the name given to the group of five countries that began to form this group and to work consensually in areas such as trade, investment, technology, and finance, to promote their common interests on the world stage, seeking to counter the hegemony of other international institutions such as the G7 or the World Bank

Although they failed, attacks on Russian strategic assets signal a far more brazen US/EU/NATO involvement, as over-the-horizon radar stations play no role in the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine. They're important only in the case of a direct confrontation between Russia and the political West. Such actions, tantamount to a declaration of war, test Moscow's patience. And while the Kremlin is showing remarkable restraint, this isn't an endless resource, particularly if it becomes ultimately self-defeating to maintain such bearing.

Continued attacks on Chinese citizens will further expose Pakistan to the IMF.

Two years after Russia's victory in the first major battle of the special military operation, civilians resume their normal lives in Mariupol.

The option for disengagement from BRICS is gaining adherents among Brazilian diplomats and is being actively promoted by sectors of Brazilian organized civil society, especially those NGOs and think tanks that receive financial support from European and American institutions. The engagement of these sectors in the G20 events during Brazil’s Presidency of 2024 and the lack of interest in the BRICS process during Russia’s Presidency in the BRICS in the same year is another sign of alertness, writes Fabiano Mielniczuk

The Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) has said that while BRICS+ remained a political grouping with no formal trade structure, the bilateral agreements between the BRICS+ countries for increasing trade were encouraging

China and Brazil, as comprehensive strategic partners with a long-standing friendship, have achieved significant results in bilateral practical cooperation. China's rapid economic growth and expanding global influence have transformed it into a major economic power, while Brazil, with its vast natural resources and growing industrial base, has become a key player in Latin America and beyond

The migration situation has the potential to fuel conflict in Northern Ireland and in all of Europe.

After various economic crises and problems with mass migration, the Ukraine conflict is the greatest challenge in the history of the European Union. How will the situation in Europe change now and what effects will it have for the future?

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze himself said that the threats of "Fico's fate" are there to "remind us that the Global War Party is an extremely dangerous force willing to do anything to bring chaos to Georgia". This clearly shows why Kobakhidze or any other sovereigntist is a target for EU/NATO.

In a recent press tour to Russian New Territories, international journalists were able to see the reality of the ZNPP.

Ukrainian refugees are straining Germany’s social services to the brink.

China, with backing from Russia and South Africa, is planning an onslaught on the mighty dollar by introducing a new currency, to be issued by a proposed BRICS central bank that would combine the strengths of the respective currencies of the five countries in the economic forum

The first fully-fledged Agroexpress train, carrying oat flakes and cereals has been sent from the Yuzhnouralsky Transport and Logistics Center in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region to India’s Mundra Port in Mumbai via the eastern route of the International North-South Transport Corridor

Zimbabwe has officially expressed its intention to join the New Development Bank (NDB), an emerging financial institution founded by the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This move underscores the country’s commitment to fostering economic ties and pursuing sustainable growth within a global partnership framework

The vote not only showed that around 70% of the world's population supports Serbia, but it can even be argued that it's a sort of badge of honor for the country, especially seeing who voted in favor of the resolution. With the blood of hundreds of millions on their hands, it's clear why the political West and its vassals would want to shift attention away from themselves.

By asking Washington to allow attacks deep inside Russian, the former State Department official is making it clear that her intention is to escalate the conflict to its ultimate consequences.

Many Ukrainian soldiers “outraged” over delay in Western military aid.

BRICS is actively seeking to establish a new currency on the world stage, aiming to challenge the dominance of the US dollar

The New Development Bank created by BRICS countries in 2015 can help finance African countries' projects to tackle their most urgent challenges, the bank's president Dilma Rousseff said

On a recent visit to Vietnam, Associate Professor Dr. Artem Yakovlev, Director of the Center for Russian Strategy in Asia, engaged in talks with the Prime Minister regarding the potential for economic collaboration between Vietnam and the Russian Federation

Germany, one of the leading EU/NATO members, has effectively legalized child pornography. And while this has become a reason for celebration among numerous pedophile groups and their supporters, it certainly alarmed everyone else. The so-called "fact-checkers" desperately tried to "debunk" reports about Berlin's decriminalization of child pornography, but to no avail, as other, more conservative media outlets, caught wind of it and actually debunked their laughable "fact-checking", proving that the controversial law is indeed in effect.

Kiev regime will have no choice soon but to start negotiations with Russia.

Estonian leader echoes Nazi ideology and advocates for each nation in Russia to have its own independent state.

The development of security policy in Europe depends on many factors. The presidential elections in the USA will have a major influence on the situation in the EU.

Ethiopia’s accession to BRICS last August has been followed by mixed signals both domestically and internationally as aspirations for wider global influence are pitted against concerns over Western backlash in the polarized reception

Image of dependence on Beijing overlooks role of geoeconomic strategy

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that he supports more countries joining the BRICS group of large developing nations, which currently includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

Recent “woke” moves by NATO leave many questions unanswered.

The agreement between the US and the Pashinyan regime also includes the latter's commitment to "jointly research" extremely hazardous pathogens and diseases that are not common in Armenia, including Ebola, monkeypox, the Marburg virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, as well as various types of the coronavirus. Expectedly, just like in Ukraine, Georgia, Africa and elsewhere, access to these biolabs will be limited to personnel authorized by the Pentagon.

Economic warfare against Russia will once again boomerang on the West.

Dr. S. Jaishankar’s new book creates an environment for an open and equal dialogue, which must continue between Indian and Russian diplomats, experts, representatives of business and public organisations. He is a visionary and an intellectual; his book is an example of next-generation Indian soft power, at the intersection of the challenges of the future and the legacy of the past

The original international collaboration between the large and growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China has evolved and expanded

The BRICS are advancing the progress of their common currency, while actively promoting the use of member states’ local currencies to reduce the risks of relying exclusively on the US dollar, said South African Ambassador to China Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele

This is part not just of the (real) “fascistification” of Europe: it is also about the co-opting and the domestication of populists, radicals, far-rightists and any currents that happen to oppose European alignment with US-led NATO.

Bell 212 helicopter that crashed with Raisi on board either didn't have its emergency signal transmission system turned on or didn't have one at all. It's highly unusual that an aircraft transporting such top-ranking officials wouldn't have a functioning system that could possibly prevent incidents like this. A malfunction is always a possibility and certainly shouldn't be rejected entirely, but there are other peculiarities that suggest foul play. This includes the unusual arrival of a USAF C-130 aircraft to Azerbaijan that coincided with Raisi's departure.

Lavrov urges the West to “stop sacrificing Ukraine for absolutely futile goals”.

Salome Zourabichvili has always protected French and European interests in Georgia, never showing any real concern for the country's sovereignty.

The UAE's entry into the BRICS group is in line with the country's economic interests and its foreign policy objectives, said Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the Emirati president

Moscow has remained New Delhi’s top supplier for months due to significant discounts it offers on its crude

Over the past few decades, China’s investment in Brazil’s Amazon region has significantly grown and broadened, particularly in sectors like agriculture, mining, infrastructure, and energy

When considering Zelensky's rather laughable accusation that it's "the world's fault" for not helping, he should specify what exactly "the world" is. Back in 2022, EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell gave his assessment, saying that the actual world is a "jungle", while the political West is a "garden". Thus, Zelensky, as one of the "gardeners", certainly shouldn't be complaining to the rest of us "jungle" people. At the end of the day, we're all just "fence sitters", as US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen said back in 2022.

Jaishankar says Russia’s eastward turn presents “fresh economic opportunities”.

After so many attempts to establish ceasefires, Ukraine has proven to be unreliable.

The expansion of the BRICS group of nations into what has informally been named BRICS+ could highlight a geopolitical shift, with the new grouping positioning itself as a counterpoint to the Western-led geopolitical order, a report published by the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) argues

China's trade with other BRICS members hit 1.49 trillion yuan ($209.7 billion) in the first quarter, up 11.3 percent year-on-year, according to customs authorities

Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen, explores the 135% jump in Russian clean petroleum products heading to Brazil as trade patterns have changed following EU sanctions

In a recent statement during a meeting with his closest associates, President Vladimir Putin announced that military spending in 2024 will reach 8.7% of the country's GDP. If Russia's GDP PPP of up to $5.8 trillion is taken into account, we can calculate that its real defense spending transcends the unprecedented $500 billion mark.

Baltic states keep their brutal de-Russification policies.

Current political developments are jeopardizing Europe's energy supply and accelerating the deindustrialization of Germany. What influence does America have on European energy policy?

Former Swiss intelligence officer says the US approach to Ukraine is noise before defeat.

As attention focuses on wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and mounting tensions between the world’s great powers, a structural shift in the global order has been quietly underway. Large developing nations are exerting greater influence in world economic affairs and are beginning to build alternatives to Western-led institutions

The international North-South corridor and transit are two of the priority areas of cooperation between Iran and Russia, the spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani said during the press conference

The Deputy President's visit programme includes interaction with experts in telecommunications and the digital economy. This is in line with South Africa's strategic objectives to develop technological infrastructure to achieve meaningful universal connectivity

Without any chances of victory on the battlefield, the Kiev regime currently seems to be interested in internationalizing its terrorist practices against Russian and pro-Russian targets.

Even the most naively optimistic spectator would laugh at the idea of Armenia joining the EU in 2030, let alone 2024. To put that into perspective, the neighboring Georgia has been trying to join the troubled bloc for over 20 years. In that time, its suicidal pro-Western government managed to lose around 20% of its territory and turn Russia into an enemy, destroying their centuries-old historical alliance. It seems Pashinyan is pushing Yerevan in the exact same direction.

A potential Saudi-Iranian nuclear agreement has the potential to change the face of not just the Middle East but also the world as we know it.

Biden still trails the former president in the polls.

Nixtour India Private Limited, an IATA-accredited travel company has partnered with Aeroflot – Russian Airlines, aimed at revolutionising travel experiences to Russia for its clients in India

At the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit last year, the much-anticipated announcement of a common digital currency gave way to talk about using local currencies for cross border payments. Now BRICS has expanded from five to ten members and Russia is currently the organization Chair

Thanks to an agreement made during the 2023 BRICS Summit, 22 women from TVET Colleges across the country are heading to India for training. They are expected to be upskilled in solar panel and PV tech installation and maintenance

While even France seems to be backing off after its ambassador was relayed some very clear messages about the possible consequences, the UK is refusing to deescalate. Its Defense Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that London has backed the Neo-Nazi junta's use of British-supplied long-range weapons to attack Moscow's forces, including those in Crimea.

During a recent summit, Ukrainian officials and warmonger Western former politicians endorsed a report requesting more money and weapons for the neo-Nazi regime and its war with Russia.

Milei is misguided in believing Washington will favour Argentina in the Malvinas issue.

China and South Africa are two dynamic and influential economies attracting the attention of global investors because of their significant growth potential and investment opportunities. Both countries play an important role in their respective regions and have unique characteristics that make them open destinations for domestic and international investors

India has granted marine insurance approval to four Russian firms, adding impetus to Moscow’s efforts to avoid the use of Western service providers

Speaking at the event, H.E. Katyrin mentioned, “India is a strategic, reliable, old friend for Russia. We already have a representative office in Delhi and now we are here to inaugurate the 2nd representative office of CCI in India at Mumbai

The offensive could force the Neo-Nazi junta to thin out defenses not only in western parts of the Donbass, but also overstretch and overextend its forces in other areas, particularly the strategically important Sumy and Chernigov oblasts further to the north. Any Russian advances in these two oblasts could jeopardize Kiev itself, putting further pressure on its troops.

Kiev is using Vietnam-era military tactics on the battlefield.

Biden is betting on elderly voters to achieve re-election in November.

The BRICS 2024 summit in Russia’s Kazan region focuses on expansion and reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed that Ethiopia is working hard to become member of BRICS’ New Development Bank

In the realm of international relations, sports have transcended mere competitions to become powerful instruments for fostering cooperation, strengthening diplomatic ties, and promoting cultural exchange. Among the various regional groupings, the BRICS has recognized the potential of sports diplomacy as a means of deepening mutual understanding, cooperation and enhancing interpersonal and cultural interactions

As has already become commonplace, Ukraine targets Russian civilians instead of fighting symmetrically on the battlefield.

Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Jose Tavares confirmed that Jakarta never terminated the deal and that it's "very much intact". Tavares also stated that Indonesia is simply waiting for the situation to become "more accommodating" to return to its implementation, probably referring to the SMO and Moscow's efforts to push back against NATO's crawling aggression.

Latin American mercenaries are filling the void left by scared Westerners.

The US dollar is facing challenges that demand attention. As nations in the Global South grapple with the risks inherent in relying on a currency subject to the whims of a single nation, the allure of alternatives grows

On January 1, 2024, Egypt and four other countries from the Global South became members of BRICS. Egypt had previously joined the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) in December 2021 with a contribution of $1.2 billion. This represents an important turning point in Egyptian policy. Since the 1970s, Egypt has submitted to the Western economy, which is dominated by the United States. Egypt’s membership in BRICS confirms the popularity and support for BRICS among the Global South, which groans from the greed and exploitation of the West. The developing countries seek balanced, win-win partnerships and true opportunities for development. The Egyptian step indicates its desire to pursue an alternative path. I is poised to enhance African and Arab support for BRICS measures to achieve a new multipolar economic order

Precious metals, especially gold, are experiencing a significant rally led by the BRICS countries. The bloc aims to use gold to back its future currency as an alternative to the US dollar

It is clear that the West is in conflict with Russia. This conflict is waged militarily on Ukrainian soil, but there is also economic war through sanctions and propaganda war.The current developments in the Caucasus are also related to the East-West conflict.

As has become commonplace for the NATO proxy regime, Russian civilians are targeted on important dates for the Russian Federation, spreading terror among ordinary people in demilitarized zones.

Meloni is an example of the limits of European so-called “populism”. Moreover, Fascist-leaning and far-right leaders and coalitions (even with public Fascist salutes and so on) are welcomed within European power structures - as long as they remain loyal to NATO.

Xi Jinping pointed out that relations between China and Serbia are "sealed by blood" and that "the friendship of the countries will forever remain in the common memory of the Chinese and Serbian people". Such words certainly resonate quite strongly in both countries.

“Everyone will Fight – choose your own unit now,” reads Ukrainian neo-Nazi propaganda.

The US is complaining about Russia targeting "commercial" space capabilities, while top-ranking officials in Washington DC are bragging about using those same "commercial" capabilities for military purposes. Analyses I wrote years ago suggested that America has been using private space corporations to enhance its military capabilities. Who in their right mind can blame Moscow for wanting to deny such assets to the US military, which is also bragging about using other advanced technologies (particularly advanced AI) to directly target Russian soldiers?

There is no Russian interest in killing Zelensky, since Moscow understands the conflict as a war with NATO with Kiev being only a proxy – regardless of the current president.

French Foreign Legion may have suffered its first casualties in clashes near Chasov Yar.

Since 2010, the India-Russia special and privileged strategic partnership has developed on a solid foundation of strong history and was maintained by the means of political imperatives

RN-Vankor, a subsidiary of Rosneft -- a major Russian oil and gas company -- recently organised a unique EcoArctic forum in the Krasnoyarsk region in the north of Russia

Moscow is a multicultural city. It is home to 13 million people, and only about half of them are native Muscovites. The capital attracts residents of smaller Russian cities, as well as immigrants from CIS countries, Middle Asia, Europe, and even India, with its opportunities both for education and career development and for a rich cultural life

Is it really preposterous to imagine that holding companies involved in shady deals with Western powerful families and former CIA officials could play a role in aiding terror groups?

According to Italian Defense Minister, Zelensky ignored many warnings not to launch the counteroffensive last year.

That's exactly what anyone with a single half-functioning brain cell would expect when trying to intimidate a country that can wipe out the entirety of France with a single ICBM (while fielding hundreds). Unfortunately, the political West needs to be reminded of this way too often.

Ukraine could default in August if it doesn’t pay creditors.

The “unfair” Western agenda is a barrier to the continent’s development, business professionals have told

BRICS group of emerging economies strive to shift some of oil trade to other currencies

Given the enormous opportunities in the medical device industry for multifaceted bilateral engagements, experts from India and Russia have vouched for faster efforts to give a boost to collaborations to make the most of emerging opportunities in the areas of manufacturing and marketing lifesaving medical equipment and devices

The representatives of the conservative political forces of the EU, controlled by the United States, are urging Brussels to launch a full-scale war against Russia, and are also provoking a worsening of the socio-economic situation of Europeans and an aggravation of the migration crisis in Europe.

Head of Kiev regime says Ukrainians are "God’s chosen people", and Russian Church responds by saying that Zelensky cannot mobilize God

The overall strategic shift in China's geopolitical planning is its new naval doctrine. Namely, it has changed so much that it completely nullifies decades of America's wet dreams about having Moscow and Beijing at each other's throats while the US goes unchallenged in its incessant aggression against the world. For decades, the mainstream propaganda machine has been spreading ludicrous propaganda about China supposedly "setting its eyes on Siberia".

NATO sets two red lines to justify intervention in Ukraine war.

The BRICS alliance, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has issued a call for Middle Eastern nations to cease using the US dollar for oil payments and instead utilize local currencies

In recent years, the rightful rejection of the policies promoted by the traditional imperialist powers (North America, Western Europe and Japan), followed by the announcements made by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), have aroused great interest and expectations of major changes, including the creation of a common currency to challenge the US dollar as the dominant currency

Nornickel, struggling to import equipment to sanctions-hit Russia, will close its Arctic copper plant and build one in China with an unnamed partner to gain direct access to the world's biggest metals market

According to Polish top diplomat, the European bloc must be prepared to react to military “emergencies.”

Just like the "big cats" (specifically "Tigers" and "Panthers") 80 years ago, the "Leopards" moved in the direction of Russia's capital city once again. This time, they failed to reach even the outskirts of Donetsk, but just like 80 years ago, they eventually reached Moscow. And once again, it was very different from what the manufacturers were hoping for. Namely, Russia just proudly displayed the "unfortunate" NATO armor that tried to accomplish the same "success" of its geopolitical (and, it can easily be argued, literal) predecessor.

The US and Ukraine are working on a 10-year plan to sustain pressure on Russia.

Although the rules of entry and exit are quite nebulous, states get both real and perceived benefits from joining international organizations.     By Hazel Genieser ('27)... Read more about Members Only: How States Favor Friends and Exclude Rivals

Algeria is close to joining the New Development Bank, known as the “BRICS Bank”, as the process will be completed according to the agreed-upon timetable, and this bank can contribute to financing development, and strategic and structural projects for the Algerian economy

In the global geopolitical landscape, BRICS and G8 stand out as influential entities, born with different foundations, objectives and internal dynamics. Understanding these differences and potential future trajectories requires a deep dive into their peculiarities, their strengths and the challenges they face

In an international world order whose multipolarity has been systematically undermined by the rise of Western-led unilateralism, developing states have been held hostage by their wealthier counterparts

When it comes to the perpetuation of conflicts, personal and electoral factors should all be considered by analysts. It is not far-fetched to describe the current aid Washington sends to Kyiv as being in part a major corruption scam that has a lot to do with leaders across the Atlantic trying to protect themselves and to secure their own private interests.

The country banned Soviet-era symbols of the victory against Nazi Germany, deepening its Russophobic policies.

The troubled Biden administration is encouraging its EU/NATO vassals and satellite states to provide their own air defense systems to the Kiev regime. However, their ability to do so remains limited due to their own shortages, so some of them are now urging Washington DC to send the "Patriots". For instance, Germany is particularly active in this regard, but the Scholz cabinet is complaining that "unfortunately, the stocks, especially our own 'Patriot' systems, are now pretty much exhausted". Poland also confirmed that its stockpile is exhausted, meaning that most of EU will not be able to send additional units.

Ukrainians are dying trying to escape conscription.

A close look at Harvard’s complex relationship to an ancient Indigenous monument.  ... Read more about The Serpent Mound of the Ohio Valley

PODCAST | ep14 | with Arthur Kleinman, Hong-Tu Chen, Ann Forsyth, and Fawwaz Habbal  People aged sixty-five and older make up the fastest growing population around the world, posing unique challenges to societies. A Harvard initiative called Social Technology for Global Aging Research is founded on the belief that there’s a great potential for technologies and interventions to benefit the elderly, but only if they are developed with a deep understanding of day-to-day life. In the scope of this collaboration, technology for the elderly covers a wide range of needs—from engineering hardware for mobility to designing living environments and even tackling the logistics of meeting friends for tea. It’s an expansive collaboration between Harvard scholars and their Chinese counterparts. We speak with four collaborators who share fascinating examples of their work. Listen to episode #14 (44:28) by clicking the play button below: ... Read more about Social Technology for Aging Societies

Contemporary identity politics often presents contradictions between the leaders from marginalized groups and the people they claim to represent. A visiting scholar unpacks this phenomenon, starting with a popular Netflix series. by Poulomi Chakrabarti... Read more about What Bridgerton Tells Us about Elites and Status Politics

In his new book, Weatherhead alum Asad L. Asad demonstrates that rather than hiding in the shadows, undocumented immigrants in the US are selectively engaging with authorities to build their credentials as deserving members of society.  by Michelle Nicholasen... Read more about The (Un)Documented Immigrant

PODCAST | ep13 | with Sasha de Vogel, Serhii Plokhy, and Alexandra Vacroux When the Wagner mercenary group staged a near coup in Moscow in June, it was seen as the greatest challenge to Vladimir Putin’s regime in decades. Though it didn’t come to fruition, it nevertheless exposed some of the fissures in Putin’s ironclad control over the military and the course of the war on Ukraine. Could it be a harbinger of future revolts? How do Russian citizens feel about the continuation of the war? We speak with three scholars of history and political science to find out what this event might mean for Russia’s war machine and for Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Listen to episode #13 (53:04) by clicking the play button below: ... Read more about Who Can Stop a Dictator? Resistance to the War in Ukraine

Weatherhead Center Fellow and Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union, EU Commission, Juan José García Sánchez argues that there’s a better way for the US to compete with China other than its current protectionist strategy. by Juan José García Sánchez... Read more about American Protectionism: Can It Work?

The ataman (head) of the “All-Russian Cossack Society,” Nikolai Doluda, addressed a meeting of the Atamans’ Council, in Krasnodar Krai, on February 4, and instructed those gathered that “the time has come when the Cossacks are once again becoming a stronghold and reliable shield of Russia, a guarantor of unity and protection of its national interests” (Vsko.ru, February 4). The … The post As Ukraine Crisis Simmers, Russian Cossack Movement Tightens Integration With Military Reserves appeared first on Jamestown.

Judi Bola Sbobet Bonus New Member Poker QQ Idn Poker Slot Dana PKV Games PKV Games Idn Poker Mix Parlay Mix Parlay BandarQQ PKV Games Over the last several years, Ukraine’s leaders have expressed grave concern over the dangers posed to regional energy security by Russia’s Nord Stream Two natural gas pipeline. From Germany and, more broadly, from Europe, the … The post The Many Faces of Nord Stream Two appeared first on Jamestown.

Judi Bola Sbobet Bonus New Member Poker QQ Idn Poker Slot Dana PKV Games PKV Games Idn Poker Mix Parlay Mix Parlay BandarQQ PKV Games On July 28, Ukrainian Orthodox Christians celebrated the 1,033rd anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus—a remarkable annual event for Ukrainian history and another reason for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political speculations. After the Ecumenical … The post Religion as a Hybrid War Weapon to Achieve Russia’s Geopolitical Goals appeared first on Jamestown.

On May 25, just ahead of the 103rd anniversary of the First Georgian Republic’s (1918–1921) independence, Georgian protesters paralyzed the streets of the capital city of Tbilisi in the largest rally to date against the Namakhvani Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) project (Civil.ge, May 25, 26). Relatively small demonstrations against the planned dam, by locals organized under the banner “Guardians of … The post Namakhvani HPP: Georgian Hydropower Between Energy Security and Geopolitics appeared first on Jamestown.

Judi Bola Sbobet Bonus New Member Poker QQ Idn Poker Slot Dana PKV Games PKV Games Idn Poker Mix Parlay Mix Parlay BandarQQ PKV Games The Russian Cossack movement is emerging as one of the key social pillars supporting the regime, and increasingly it is taking on the mold of Kuban Cossackdom, found in the southern part of the country. … The post All Russian Cossacks Increasingly Resemble Krasnodar Movement appeared first on Jamestown.

On April 21, Vasily Piskarev, the head of the State Duma’s commission to investigate the facts of interference in the internal affairs of Russia, announced that his body was preparing legislative initiatives to combat foreign interference in Russia, including in its elections, by non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGO). Piskarev said that “insults against Russia” will receive a “worthy response, including … The post Russia Cracks Down on ‘Foreign Threats’ appeared first on Jamestown.

On February 20, Ruslan Ablyakimov was walking in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, with two friends when he was stopped by six young men who proceeded to beat him. “Where did you come here from?” they asked, “You are from Moscow, right? What are you doing here?” Before the men left Ablyakimov, they told him, “You have until tomorrow to … The post Alexei Navalny’s Support in the North Caucasus: More About Corruption Than Navalny appeared first on Jamestown.

The foreign and security policy expert communities in Georgia (Neweurope.eu, November 17) as well as both the outgoing and candidate Lithuanian defense ministers (LRT, November 16, 19) have called for a permanent presence of United States military forces in their respective countries. These calls indicate a hope that the incoming administration of President-elect Joseph Biden will bring greater attention to … The post Georgia, Lithuania Call for Permanent US Troop Presences appeared first on Jamestown.

In the first week of August, cellphones across Russia lit up with surprising text messages. They came from different numbers, but each said the same thing in Russian: “The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information about interference in the US elections. If you have information, contact rfj.tips/bngc.” The State Department confirmed the messages were authentic … The post US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up? appeared first on Jamestown.

Recent comments by former vice president of the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia Valery Arshba indicate a split between the older political elite and the current administration of President Aslan Bzhania (Gazeta-ra.info, October 19; Civil.ge, October 23). Arshba called for the breakaway republic to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus, “without losing [its] sovereignty.” Arshba himself has a … The post Former Abkhazian Separatist Official Calls for Joining Russia-Belarus Union State appeared first on Jamestown.