“Murther, murther, murther, murther …” shouted Free-born John Lilburne from prison. “M’aidez, m’aidez,” says the international distress signal. Murder is the crime, and help is the need. That is the dynamic of the day, May Day. It’s methodology therefore requires answers to two questions: Who? Whom? We remember los martiros, …
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It’s the Class War, Stupid: An Evening with Noam Chomsky
In mid-April, we hosted renowned linguist, political analyst, and activist Noam Chomsky for a speaking and Q&A event at Lehigh University as part of the Douglas Dialogues forum. The event was attended by hundreds of students, faculty, and staff, and provided the Lehigh University community an opportunity to engage in …
Read More »Wagner Chief Threatens To Pull Out Of Bakhmut As Zelenskyy Calls For Modern Air Defenses
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, has threatened to withdraw his troops from the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut if ammunition supply problems are not resolved, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed for modern air-defense systems following one of the deadliest Russian strikes on civilian targets in recent …
Read More »Kazakhstan’s ‘Multi-Vector’ Foreign Policy Amidst The Ukraine War – Analysis
Kazakhstan has maintained a distinctive stance regarding Russia’s military action in Ukraine. It has repeatedly emphasised the need for diplomacy to resolve the conflict. Kazakh authorities have also decried the results of referendums held in four Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia , which overwhelmingly voted to join …
Read More »‘It’s Offensive’: NATO Bomb Victims’ Families ‘Ignored’ by Montenegro Government – Analysis
Twenty-four years after NATO air strikes killed six people, including three children, in the Montenegrin village of Murino, the victims’ families have received no compensation and say consecutive governments have done nothing to help them. When the first bomb exploded on April 30, 1999 at a bridge near near the …
Read More »La dédollarisation passe à la vitesse supérieure
Le dollar américain est essentiel à la projection de la puissance mondiale des États-Unis. Mais en 2022, la part du dollar dans les monnaies de réserve a diminué dix fois plus vite que la moyenne des deux dernières décennies. Il est désormais établi que le statut du dollar américain en …
Read More »PKK terrorist activities in Sweden stymie NATO membership bid, admits minister
Terror group has ‘extensive work in Sweden to raise money and finance terrorist activities aimed at Türkiye,’ admits Foreign Minister Billstrom STOCKHOLM The Swedish foreign minister has admitted that the PKK terrorist organization’s extensive activities in his country are the reason Türkiye is preventing Sweden from joining NATO, an intergovernmental …
Read More »Turkish intelligence captures fugitive PKK terrorist abroad
Rasim Akyol, a fugitive member of the PKK terrorist group, was brought to Türkiye after being captured by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in an unspecified country, security sources told media outlets Friday. Photos shared by security sources show Akyol at an undisclosed location between two Turkish flags. Akyol was …
Read More »Generals in Their Labyrinth
The conflict in Sudan is multidimensional, and could generate instability that spreads to the broader region. Since April 15, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) across Sudan, especially in the capital Khartoum, has left more than 450 people dead and over 4,000 …
Read More »The Rise of China (and the Fall of the U.S.?) Tectonic Eruptions in Eurasia Erode America’s Global Power
From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like a Titan of Greek legend, unharmed and armed with extraordinary military and economic power, to govern the globe. During four years of combat against the Axis leaders in …
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