Eurasia

How The World Can Challenge And Confront Terrorism – OpEd

It was considered a momentous occasion when news broke 13 years ago this week that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, had been killed. Many around the world hoped this would be a turning point in the fight against terrorism; a decisive blow that would bring an …

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Transhumanism – Analysis

The theory of “the obsolescence of man” has become one of the most aggressive social and anthropological theories in the contemporary world, reckoning with man as a human and natural being. The established ideological sphere of capitalism produces an anthropological model that becomes the basis of man’s self-understanding. Instead of …

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Moscow Fearful Of Losing Its Military Bases In Armenia And Tajikistan – Analysis

Since Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his team—who come from a generation formed not in Soviet times and do not speak Russian as a native language—took power in Yerevan six years ago, Armenia has been turning away from Russia and toward the West. Moscow has supported the domestic opposition …

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Ukraine Military Situation: Russian Forces Make Significant Battlefield Advances And Tactical Gains – Analysis

Battlefield AssessmentLast week, Moscow’s widening artillery advantage and Kyiv’s stumbling mobilization efforts allowed Russian forces to make significant battlefield advances and tactical gains on multiple fronts. In the meantime, Russian air and missile strikes continued to pound major Ukrainian population centers. Russian and Ukrainian forces engaged in heavy clashes and …

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Iran Update, May 3, 2024

The Houthi movement said it will expand targeting of maritime shipping into the Mediterranean Sea, which is probably part of an Iranian-led effort to impose an unofficial economic blockade on Israel. The Houthi movement announced on May 3 that it will begin targeting ships in the eastern Mediterranean that are …

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Conférence internationale en vue de la création d’un Tribunal International sur la Palestine (6-8 juin 2024) à Genève

Une conférence internationale se tient les 6,7 et 8 juin 2024, à Genève, en vue d’examiner les modalités de la mise sur pied d’un Tribunal International sur la Palestine, sur le modèle du tribunal Russell sur le Vietnam. Fondé le 15 novembre 1966 par Bertrand Russell, mathématicien, considéré comme l‘un …

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Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war

Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging. In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ’s research has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists …

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What’s behind Turkey and Iraq’s ‘Development Road’ project?

Turkey and Iraq signed more than 20 agreements during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s first visit to the neighbouring country in more than a decade. In statements after the visit, attention focused on the ambitious Development Road project, a highway and railway corridor stretching 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from the …

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Israel lied about UNRWA. US and UK must end their dehumanising defunding of Palestinian aid

A recent UN investigation has determined that Israel has failed to provide evidence supporting its claim that employees of the United Nations Relief Work Agency (UNRWA) are members of Hamas and participated in the 7th October attack on Israel. In fact, the report concluded that UNRWA has one of the …

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Evolving Middle Eastern imperatives on the Indo-Pakistan rivalry

It was no surprise to see the newly elected Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, choose Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first official visit within weeks of assuming power. What was more surprising, however, was the joint announcement that emerged from this two-day visit in early April, which not …

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