Eurasia

Pandora Papers – recently leaked papers – show how some of the world’s elites accumulate property empires while avoiding millions of dollars in taxes. More than 100 billionaires and others have been exposed by the Pandora Papers obtained from 14 offshore banking institutions and analyzed by the International Consortium of …

For many years, it seems that the United States has been the country that everyone loves to hate. Many around the world beg for American assistance and support but also blast the U.S. for all its greatness and power. The U.S. is an easy target when it does not handle …

Calm in a crisis used to be a national characteristic; now we panic at the drop of a hat. A loss of trust in the elite is to blame. An alarming number of Britons seem to have acquired a proclivity to act in a way we used to believe was …

La decisión del Tribunal General de la Unión Europea de anular los acuerdos agrícola y pesquero firmados en el 2018 entre la Comisión Europea y Marruecos, por no haber consultado adecuadamente al pueblo saharaui, supone una importante victoria jurídica y política para el Frente Polisario. El tribunal da un margen …

La France a une fois encore averti. C’était le mercredi, 29 septembre 2021. Elle a fait savoir au Mali qu’il perdrait le « soutien de la communauté internationale » et abandonnerait des « pans entiers de sa souveraineté » s’il avait recours aux mercenaires de la société privée russe Wagner. …

In France, the executive has carefully avoided a reaction to the outcome of the German elections. However, in a Twitter post on 26 September, French President Emmanuel Macron used election day to talk about his EU vision and ambitions. He recalled his initiative for a “sovereign, unified and democratic Europe”, …

Former FBI agent Ali Soufan has investigated numerous terrorism cases, inside and outside the United States, including the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa and the 2000 attack on the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole. His role in shedding light on the 9/11 attacks also raised his profile. It is …

President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin are each day moving closer to the era of the Soviet Union’s complete control of the information that the Russian people can see, hear, and read. Under the new “Foreign Agent” designation, the Kremlin can now crackdown on all independent news services and reports …

Mali’s discussions with the Russian Wagner Group have sparked intense debate among the European Union members deployed to Mali under a French-led coalition to defeat Islamic jihadists. The Wagner Group mercenary company is owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mali is in …

Près de deux ans après la sortie de l’UE, le Royaume-Uni paie aujourd’hui son impréparation face aux retombées du largage des amarres. L’économie bien comprise conduit tout naturellement à s’interroger sur le sens de notre société. Cette discipline, qui n’est pas que politique, invite à une pointe de philosophie, sans …