Although Azerbaijan and India have different views on Karabakh and Kashmir, they’ve found themselves under similar pressure from the US, and this is precisely due to them being regional multipolar leaders. “The West’s Pro-Armenian Pivot Is Complete After The US & EU Openly Took Its Side” last month against Azerbaijan …

Azerbaijan’s pro-government media has been ramping up its anti-U.S. rhetoric and the government is publicly musing about banning the activities of USAID, the U.S. government’s international development arm. A campaign against supposed “U.S. spies” continued with the arrest of a fourth media manager in a week’s time. The sharp anti-U.S. …

Top officials from Iran and Saudi Arabia weighed plans for regional cooperation between the two Muslim heavyweights at a meeting in Riyadh. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud held talks on the sidelines of a joint meeting of the Organization of …

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a high-level meeting of security officials immediately following the recent anti-Israeli riots in Dagestan and elsewhere in the North Caucasus. Putin’s move is one of only a few indications that Moscow is concerned with the unrest (MR7.ru, November 5). Perhaps more notable is what …

Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government (including representative-electoral) coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other. The revolutionaries who overthrew other systems to establish capitalism sometimes meant …

Through the intense bombardment of Khan Younis Israel wants its 1.5 million displaced people that came to assemble here to continue to move further south to Rafah on the border with Egypt. And you can guess why? Eventual exodus maybe! United States Vice-President Kamala Harris said Washington will not allow …

Israel’s military reported Tuesday it had reached the centre of Khan Younis in southern Gaza amid what a top general labelled “the most intensive day” of combat since the start of the Netanyahu regime’s genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians. The ground offensive on the city, whose population has swelled over …

After nearly six weeks of nonstop bombardment on the densely populated Gaza Strip, it has only recently started to become clear exactly how much of Gaza has been destroyed in the violent Israeli onslaught. Over 14,800 Palestinians, including 6,000 children, have been killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry since …

Unless and until a ceasefire comes into effect, the Gaza war’s destabilising impact is set to spread further across the Middle East – to say nothing about the horrifying situation inside the besieged enclave. At this point, more than seven weeks after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion into southern Israel, …

Drug trafficking and corruption in central Asia Central Asia lies on the heroin trafficking route connecting supply in Afghanistan with markets in Russia and Europe. Low levels of violence related to the trade point to possible state collusion in the region with traffickers. According to the United Nations Office on …