On the third anniversary of the Abraham Accords, an already fractured region is divided further over the prospects of peace. As the United States celebrates the third anniversary of the Abraham Accords, which seeks normalization and shared economic and political relations between Israel and the Arab world, three of the …
Read More »Capitalism is dead: long live Technofeudalism
We have all been turned into cloud-serfs I once heard an elderly Friedrich von Hayek begin a tirade against socialist planning with a charming personal tale. “The other day,” he said playfully, “I went into a shop. I left with an item that, previously, I had no idea I wanted!” …
Read More »The Left is losing the climate class war
Punishing the workers won’t save the planet Britain’s cosy climate consensus has been broken. No longer is “net zero” some airy target that can waft freely in the intellectual blue sky of speeches and policy papers — it is an ambition that has finally drifted onto the frontline of politics. …
Read More »Dubious Russian Claims Of ‘Doubling’ Arms Production – Analysis
On September 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered comments on the state of Russian defense production at a meeting of Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission in Izhevsk. Putin declared that the production of battle tanks and armored vehicles had doubled from January to August 2023, as compared to the same period in …
Read More »Russia Calls Pashinian’s Criticism Of Moscow Over Situation In Nagorno-Karabakh ‘Unacceptable’
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and many Armenians blame Russia for failing to use its peacekeeping force to protect ethnic Armenians in Azerbaijan’s mostly Armenian-populated breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on September 25 slammed remarks by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian that were critical of Moscow, saying they …
Read More »How the pro-European opposition reacted to armed conflicts in Banjska
In the first reactions to the armed conflicts since Sunday morning in Banjska , Kosovo, the pro-European opposition expressed condolences for the dead, sharply criticized the policy of the President of Serbia as unsuccessful because it turned the Serbs into hostages, and demanded a new approach to the region. Due …
Read More »A Reluctant Magnet: Navigating the EU’s Absorption Capacity
Summary:The prospect of further enlargement presents the EU with multiple institutional, policy, and financial dilemmas. The successful integration of Ukraine and other candidate countries will require pragmatism, reforms, and transitional arrangements. The EU’s 2022 decision to grant candidate country status to Moldova and Ukraine suddenly revived the debate on the …
Read More »La «géométrie variable» de Blinken pour une nouvelle guerre froide
La semaine dernière, le secrétaire d’État Blinken, dans un discours prononcé à l’université Johns Hopkins, a déclaré sans ambages : «Ce à quoi nous sommes confrontés n’est pas un test de l’ordre de l’après-guerre froide. Les pays et les citoyens perdent confiance dans l’ordre économique international – leur confiance est …
Read More »China and Russia: The New Axis of Evil
Xi has been eyeing the South and East China Seas, coopting the Solomon Islands, building and militarizing his own artificial islands, and threatening not only Taiwan, but neighbours such as Australia, India and Japan. Putin seized and occupied territory in Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 (Crimea) and 2023, …
Read More »Bojan Pajtić: Returning Serbian police officers to the north of Kosovo is a prerequisite for anything to move forward
Professor of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad and former president of the provincial government of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, said in Iza vesti that the first thing that must be sought is “the return of Serbian policemen to the north of Kosovo.” According to him, “we are certainly not …
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