Eurasia

Turkey told the opposition its meetings with the Syrian regime did not address the issue of Idleb, according to Baladi News. The head of the Syrian Negotiation Commission, Badr Jamous, said on Tuesday that the Syrian opposition delegation requested a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu because of “blaming …

The fourth division is feuding with the PKK over the quantities of fuel that reach Aleppo, according to Shaam Network. Kurdish media have highlighted the situation of civilians in the Al-Shahba area north of Aleppo and the neighbourhoods of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo, which are under the control …

Олег Нестеренко Представителям западного сообщества довольно удобно сплотиться вокруг нарративов НАТО о причинах вооруженного конфликта в Украине и не ставить себя в положение дискомфорта сомнений и проверки постулатов, доминирующих общественное мнение. Однако, выход из этой зоны интеллектуального комфорта, которая, на самом деле, психологически, есть лишь зона страха – является важным …

Джейсон Блазакис и Тур Буккволл – о наемниках Евгения Пригожина как передовом отряде Кремля в его агрессии против Украины 29 декабря Центр по исследованию коррупции и организованной преступности (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP) объявил «персоной года» (то есть, антигероем по версии этой организации) Евгения Пригожина – человека, прозванного …

Russia’s faltering war effort in Ukraine has caused regional powers to exploit this and try to expand their influence in Syria, threatening to worsen humanitarian conditions there. Moscow has stepped up diplomacy to normalize relations with the Assad regime and reintegrate Syria into the broader Middle East region, in part …

Disinformation will continue to evolve in 2023 with several trends worth highlighting, including: Sino-Russian alignment, more state actors seeking to acquire sophisticated disinformation capabilities, and the harnessing of emerging technologies for information manipulation purposes. Telegram has emerged as one of the primary platforms used to spread disinformation to myriad online …

“These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel – in the Galilee, the Negev, the …

With the rapid growth of metadata and political and corporate surveillance in America during the last two decades, anthropologists Roberto J. González and David H. Price—long-time contributors to CounterPunch—have been studying the impacts and implications of these developments. Both Price and González recently published books that critically examine surveillance in …

More than one-third of the U.S. population was born after 1970, and thus has no personal memories of the Cold War, particularly the Berlin crises or the Cuban missile crisis. Since we are in the early stages of a new Cold War, it’s a good time to review the tensions …

Abandonner l’Ukraine L’élite américaine commence à se rendre compte qu’elle a totalement sous-estimé la Russie, à tous les égards. Par exemple, le 25 mars 2014, l’arrogant Obama a qualifié avec mépris la Russie de « puissance régionale, menaçant les autres par faiblesse » (sic !). (Il est clair qu’il parlait des États-Unis). …