Eurasia

Ukraine’s Political Intrigue Deepens As The SBU Alleges A Poroshenko-Orban-Russian Plot

After having crossed the Rubicon of implying that the same man who waged the first Donbass War is either a Russian agent or at least that country’s useful idiot, it’s anyone’s guess what happens next, but the past month’s precedent suggests that more drama is likely. Reuters reported over the …

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Putin’s Weak Link to Crimea

Kyiv Should Target the Kerch Bridge—but Needs Missiles to Take It Out When Russia annexed Crimea in February 2014, the peninsula became crucial to Moscow’s strategy to dominate Ukraine and the Black Sea region. Critical to that domination is the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait, the narrow strip of water …

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Gaza and the Future of Information Warfare

The Digital Front of the Israel-Hamas Conflict Is a Preview of Fights to Come The Israel-Hamas war began in the early hours of Saturday, October 7, when Hamas militants and their affiliates stole over the Gazan-Israeli border by tunnel, truck, and hang glider, killed 1,200 people, and abducted over 200 …

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We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both.

As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability, swing states and the electoral college, likely voters and poll results, and much more. Occasionally we may hear about some issues of importance. Most likely, we will hear …

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Richard Falk on Kissinger’s Foreign Policy

International relations scholar Richard Falk once summarized Christopher Hitchen’s The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001). Falk reminded readers that Hitchens listed six major crimes carried out by Kissinger: 1) The deliberate mass killing of the civilian population in Indochina. 2) Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination in …

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Kissinger: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man”

After the New York Times begn publishing “The Pentagon Papers” on June 13, 1971, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told President Richard M. Nixon that Daniel Ellsberg was “the most dangerous man in America and that he must be stopped at all costs.” Nixon was not inclined to seek legal …

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Israel Enters Hamas Stronghold in Gaza’s South

Latest Developments Israeli forces entered Khan Younis — the largest city in southern Gaza — on December 5 after several days of intensified shelling of Hamas targets. The head of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, said that IDF troops are engaged in the “most …

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La cause de toutes les guerres est l’industrie de la défense des États-Unis

Les ventes des entreprises d’armes américaines ont chuté, malgré de grands conflits internationaux. Washington veut aider – et commence de nouveaux conflits. Un nouveau rapport de l’Institut de recherche pour la paix de Stockholm (SIPRI) a révélé des chiffres désagréables pour les entreprises militaires américaines. Non seulement le chiffre d’affaires …

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Juifs/Arabes : Le «deux poids deux mesures» de la France

«La France ne pratique pas de double standard … toutes les vies se valent et il n’y a pas de hiérarchie» a récemment déclaré Emmanuel Macron a propos de notre façon de considérer les victimes civiles, selon qu’elles soient israéliennes ou palestiniennes, depuis les évènements du 7 octobre. Une phrase …

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Le Qatar, les Frères musulmans, le Hamas et Israël

Contrairement à la manière dont on présente le Qatar, l’émirat n’est pas un négociateur neutre dans l’affaire des otages de l’opération Déluge d’Al-Aqsa. Une bévue de sa ministre, Lolwah Al-Khater, venue suivre les négociations à Tel-Aviv, montre, au contraire, que Doha exerce une autorité sur le Hamas. Les nouveaux membres …

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